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Georgia Bulldog Dominique Wilkins
Wilkins then starred in the McDonald’s All-American Game, The Capital Classic, The Kentucky Derby Festival Classic, and The Dapper Dan Classic All-Star Games. He had 16 points and 12 rebounds in the McDonald’s, 26 points in the Capital, and 22 points in the Derby Classic. He entered the University of Georgia in 1979 with an established reputation as an exciting player. Wilkins averaged 21.6 points a game over his career and was named SEC Men’s Basketball Player of the Year in 1981. He left college after his junior year.
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Bulldogs NCAA World Series Winners 1990
The 1990 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament was played at the end of the 1990 NCAA Division I baseball season to determine the national champion of college baseball. The tournament concluded with eight teams competing in the College World Series, a double-elimination tournament in its forty-fourth year. Eight regional competitions were held to determine the participants in the final event. Each region was composed of six teams, resulting in 48 teams participating in the tournament at the conclusion of their regular season, and in some cases, after a conference tournament. The forty-fourth tournament’s champion was Georgia, coached by Steve Webber. The Most Outstanding Player was Mike Rebhan of Georgia.
The Georgia Bulldogs are the athletic teams that represent the University of Georgia. The female athletic teams are sometimes referred to as Lady Bulldogs. The Bulldogs compete in NCAA Division I and are members of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The official mascot is an English Bulldog named Uga, (derived from an abbreviation of the University of Georgia), while the costumed character version of Uga is Hairy Dawg.
College Sports Established
1907
Location
Athens, Georgia
College Name
University of Georgia
Collegiate History
1973 – Present / NCAA Division 1
1907 – 1973 / University Division of the NCAA
Conference History
1932 – Present / Southeastern Conference
1921 – 1932 / Southern Conference
1895 – 1916, 1919 – 1921 / Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Nickname
Bulldogs – The first mention of “Bulldogs” in association with Georgia athletics occurred on November 28, 1901, at the Georgia-Auburn football game played in Atlanta. The Georgia fans “had a badge saying ‘Eat’em Georgia’ and a picture of a bulldog tearing a piece of cloth”; however, it was not until 1920 that the nickname “Bulldog” was used to describe the athletic teams at the University of Georgia. Traditionally, the choice of a Bulldog as the UGA mascot was attributed to the alma mater of its founders and first president, who graduated from Yale University. On November 3, 1920, Morgan Blake, a sportswriter for the Atlanta Journal wrote a story about school nicknames for football teams and proposed:
“The Georgia Bulldogs would sound good because there is a certain dignity about a bulldog, as well as ferocity.”
Shortly thereafter, another news story appeared in the Atlanta Constitution in which the name “Bulldogs” was used several times to describe the Georgia football team and the nickname has been used ever since then.
NCAA Championships
Baseball 1
1990
Men’s Basketball 0
Women’s Basketball 0
Football 0
Soccer 0
