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Herty Field, also known as Alumni Athletic Field, [1] was the original on-campus playing venue for football and baseball at the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia. It opened in the Fall of 1891 and hosting the first UGA home football game against Mercer University on January 30, 1892. Before its use for athletics, the field was a ...
Oct 11, 2022 · A view of the Herty Field fountain with students around it during the afternoon hours of Feb. 5, 2019 on the University of Georgia campus in Athens, Georgia. UGA students have been taking ...
Sep 27, 2021 · Georgia's Herty Field: The Site of UGA's First Game. It was #OTD in 1892 when @FootballUGA played its first ever game, defeating @MercerFootball 50-0 on what is now Herty Field. Here we see the first #UGA team and Dr. Charles Herty, the @UGAChemistry professor who organized and coached them. From our archives.
Sep 10, 2013 · Williams walks through Herty Field every day on the way to his office in Moore College, home of the Honors Program. “I remember it being a parking lot, but not many of us walk by parking lots ...
Georgia played all its home games on this field until 1911 when a new field was constructed off Lumpkin Street. The old grounds were thereafter used for informal intramural games and as a drill field for the R.O.T.C. trainees. The original field, later converted into a parking lot, was named in honor of Dr. Charles H. Herty, professor of ...
Sep 26, 2020 · Herty Field The large expanse of grass and large fountain next to Moore College is Herty Field. Jumping barefoot in the fountain is a UGA tradition, and both the fountain and the field are popular ...
Herty Field has served as a football field, a parking lot, and after a 1999 conversion, as a public plaza with a large green lawn and a cascading fountain. Type: Infrastructure & Greenspace. Phase: Completed/Warranty. Status:
