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Dooley makes book tour stop in area
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For a moment, Vince Dooley is back on the sideline at Sanford Stadium, wide-eyed at what his freshman star Herschel Walker was about to achieve. He tried to keep up as Walker burst down the right sideline for a 65-yard touchdown on Nov. 29, 1980, to help Georgia defeat rival Georgia Tech and set the national freshman rushing record. Dooley didn’t quite have the same closing speed.