Vince Dooley

Vince Dooley, who led the Georgia football program to a national championship, has died at the age of 90.

[Bookmark](https://si.com/fannation/college/cfb-hq) Game, and stayed at the top of the rankings for the remainder of the year, winning the national championship. 16 team in the national polls and moved to No. [College football rankings](https://www.si.com/college-football/rankings) Dooley's team began the legendary 1980 season as the No. 4 in the AP top 25 poll that year.

The school announced that Dooley died peacefully at his Athens home in the presence of his wife, Barbara, and their four children, including former Tennessee ...

Dooley was an outstanding defensive back and captain of the 1953 team, a year in which he also played in the College All-Star Game. Raphael Warnock, Walker received the endorsement of his former coach in a recent ad. 2 Penn State captured the championship with a 27-23 victory in what turned out to be Walker’s final college game. After graduating from McGill High School, he went to Auburn on a football scholarship and played basketball. By the time Dooley stepped down from coaching at age 56, he was one of only 10 NCAA Division I-A coaches to win 200 games. Dooley won over skeptics early on, using a trick play to upset the defending national champion Crimson Tide 18-17 in the 1965 season opener. That season would be the pinnacle of Dooley’s career, though the Bulldogs nearly won another national title two years later. “Vince Dooley was one of my favorite people in the world,” Saban said. But his most famous recruit was undoubtedly Walker, a running back who possessed an almost supernatural combination of bruising power and sprinter’s speed. After retiring from coaching, Dooley continued as the school’s athletic director, a job he held from 1979 until 2004. 19 at the age of 100. Dooley dominated that series during his coaching career, going 17-7-1 against the Gators.

ATHENS -- 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 ...

Vince Dooley, the winningest Georgia football coach in program history, passed away at the age of 90. The University of Georgia announced Dooley's pas.

[Dooley said at the time of the ceremony. Dooley was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1994. From 1980 through 1983, Georgia ripped off a record of 43-4-1, the best four-year stretch in program history. He won the first of his SEC championships in 1966, as the Bulldogs went 10-1 and 5-0 in league play. Walker would go on to become one of the best players in college football history in his time at Georgia, winning the 1982 Heisman Trophy. The University of Georgia announced Dooley’s passing in an official statement.

Dooley had a career record of 201-77-10 while coaching the Bulldogs from '64 to '88, a stretch that included six Southeastern Conference titles, ...

Dooley was an outstanding defensive back and captain of the 1953 team, a year in which he also played in the College All-Star Game. 2 Penn State captured the championship with a 27-23 victory in what turned out to be Walker’s final college game. After graduating from McGill High School, he went to Auburn on a football scholarship and played basketball. By the time Dooley stepped down from coaching at age 56, he was one of only 10 NCAA Division I-A coaches to win 200 games. He bolted for the upstart U.S. Dooley won over skeptics early on, using a trick play to upset the defending national champion Crimson Tide 18-17 in the 1965 season opener. That season would be the pinnacle of Dooley’s career, though the Bulldogs nearly won another national title two years later. “Vince Dooley was one of my favorite people in the world,” Saban said. But his most famous recruit was undoubtedly Walker, a running back who possessed an almost supernatural combination of bruising power and sprinter’s speed. 19 at the age of 100. Dooley’s death came just one day before Georgia, the defending national champion and ranked No. The field at Sanford Stadium was

Take a trip down memory lane and look back at some of the best pictures of legendary Georgia football coach Vince Dooley.

Vince Dooley worked as the athletic director at Georgia from 1979-2004. Dooley’s impact on Georgia was so profound that the Bulldogs named Sanford Stadium’s field “Dooley Field” after the legendary coach. Dooley helped the University of Georgia win a national championship in 1980.