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Delta honors late legendary Georgia Football Coach Vince Dooley with plane
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ATLANTA – Atlanta-based Delta Air Strains is honoring legendary Georgia Soccer coach and former UGA Athletics director Vince Dooley together with his personal airplane.
A Boeing 767-400 that includes a memorial seal honoring the Corridor of Famer was devoted on Tuesday.
Dooley’s widow and son attended the ceremony that additionally noticed notable dignitaries reminiscent of Gov. Brian Kemp, Lt. Governor-elect Burt Jones, former chairman of Augusta Nationwide Golf Membership and Centennial Olympic organizer Billy Payne, 1980 UGA group captain Frank Ros, and lots of former UGA alumni.
Delta’s senior administration and a number of other staff have been readily available to mark the big day.
Delta has been the official airline of Georgia athletes for greater than 4 a long time, together with the 1980 championship season.
Vince Dooley grew to become head coach at UGA in 1963. Coach Dooley led the bulldogs to extra wins than some other coach within the group’s historical past with 201 victories, and 6 SEC titles. Throughout his years as coach and later athletics director, he helped form the trail of school athletics.
Coach Dooley died Oct. 28 on the age of 90.