ATHENS, Ga. — He was born in Alabama and educated at Auburn University, but he lived and died a Georgia Bulldog.
Vincent Joseph Dooley, all-star football and basketball player, U.S. Marine, national championship football coach, Hall of Fame athletics administrator, published author died Friday afternoon, UGA officials announced. He was 90. Dooley died peacefully at his home in the presence of his wife and their four children.
While the foundation for his life was built in that fair state to our west, it was in Georgia that Dooley spent more than 40 years as master and commander of a juggernaut of an athletics program.
