Good morning to all you good hearted, yet deplorable Dawgs…..Friday….June 19th……..Today is National Martini Day……..Today is also National Flip Flop Day……..Get the message?…….Take care fellow Dawgs……
UGA SPORTS SPOTLIGHT:
I’m gonna mention a Dawg great in the UGA sports spotlight section this morning, just to make sure at least something Dawg is mentioned today in this “DAWGChat” forum…Today the Georgia Bulldog in the spotlight is former Dawg Great Lamar ‘Racehorse’ Davis…….
Raymond Lamar "RaceHorse" Davis
Born in Brunswick, Georgia…..
Member of UGA’s 1942 ”Dream Backfield” with teammates Frank Sinkwich, Charley Trippi, and Dick McPhee……..
First‐string wingback for the Bulldogs for three seasons (1940‐42)....
Set multiple school records over his illustrious college career:
Punt Return Average (33.6 on seven returns) for a season….
Pass receiving yards in a single game (198 yards)…….
Longest TD reception (90yards) against Cincinnati in 1942….
Longest kick off return of 96 yards against Tulane in 1940.....
(1942) 3rd‐team All‐SEC (AP)... ..
Established a record for yards per catch (28.5 ypc) with 19 receptions for 542 yards......
(1941): Set Georgia pass receiving record with eight ...
Caught 90 and 80 yard TD passes in a 35‐13 win over Cincinnati...
Had 85 yard kickoff return for TD 35‐0 victory over Dartmouth...
He is widely known for catching the 65-yard yard TD pass from Frank Sinkwich to beat Auburn 7-0 in 1941 as the final horn went off while the ball was in the air……
Returned punts for 464 yards.. …
Professional Career (Miami Seahawks, Baltimore Colts): Played four seasons of pro ball with the old Miami Seahawks (1946) and Baltimore Colts (1947‐49)...
Prep Career: All‐state in football and basketball at Glynn Academy in Brunswick...
Ironically, Racehorse enrolled at Georgia on a basketball scholarship after an outstanding career in that sport at Glynn Academy but was invited to play in the Georgia North-South High School All-Star football game and his career on the gridiron took off after that……
He was inducted into the Glynn County Sports Hall of Fame in 2012……..
From teammate Frank Sinkwich: "He was an exciting and colorful player…. He specialized in clutch plays, but his clutch catches and runs are too numerous to mention. However,I can easily recall games he turned around during the 1941 season, enabling us to earn a berth in the Orange Bowl. And that momentum, unquestionably, carried over to the following year when we went to the Rose Bowl”……
Davis was inducted into the State of Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1990……Lamar ‘Racehorse’ Davis..…a DGD…...May he RIP……
SOME “STUFF YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED YOU DON”T KNOW” AND SOME “STUFF YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED YOU DO KNOW”……
(by year/comments)
1586 English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island, North Carolina
1603 Merga Bien arrested for witchcraft in Fulda, Germany, part of Fulda witch trials. She and about 250 people later burned at the stake.
1754 Albany Congress held by seven British colonies & Iroquois indians
1778 Washington's troops leave Valley Forge
1816 Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba
1835 New Orleans gives US government Jackson Square to be used as a mint
1861 Anaheim Post Office established
1862 Slavery outlawed in US territories
1864 CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France
1864 Skirmish at Pine Knob, Georgia
1865 Union General Gordon Granger declares slaves are free in Texas, now the date the end of slavery is celebrated across the US as Juneteenth
1867 1st Belmont Stakes: Gilbert Gilpatrick aboard Ruthless wins in 3:05
1868 Major general E R S Canby removes mayor of Columbia, South Carolina
1875 Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio in San Francisco.
1897 Moe Howard [Moses Horowitz], American actor and comedian (The 3 Stooges), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1975)
1900 Republican Party nominates President William McKinley for re-election, but chooses a new candidate for Vice-President, Theodore Roosevelt
1908 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Scotsman James Braid wins his 4th Championship by 8 strokes from Tom Ball
1910 1st airship in service (Germany)
1910 Father's Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Washington)
1912 Tennessee University opened as Tennessee A & L State College
1914 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Harry Vardon of Jersey wins a record 6th Open Championship, 3 strokes ahead of defending champion J.H. Taylor
1914 Lester Raymond Flatt, American bluegrass guitarist (Flatt & Scruggs – Martha White, Salty Dog Blues, Ballad of Jed Clampett; Foggy Mountain Breakdown), was born in Duncan's Chapel, Tennessee (d. 1979)
1923 Comic Strip "Moon Mullins" debuts
1926 DeFord Bailey is 1st African American to perform on Nashville's "Grand Ole Opry"
1931 1st photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven, Connecticut
1934 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created
1935 Tommy Devito, rock vocalist (Four Seasons-Sherry, Walk Like A Man, Big Girls Don’t Cry), was born in Montclair, New Jersey
1936 Shirley Goodman (of Shirley & Lee, Shirley & Company) is born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1936 German boxer Max Schmeling KOs up-and-coming American heavyweight Joe Louis in 12 rounds at Yankee Stadium, New York
1936 Joe McCarthy is named to manage AL All-Stars, rather than high-strung Mickey Cochrane, who is very close to a nervous breakdown
1937 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Beverly CC: Helen Hicks wins the first of her 2 major titles, defeating amateur Bea Barrett 6 & 5 in the final
1938 "Olympian Flyer" express train crashes in Montana, killing 47
1939 1939 Al Wilson, American singer (Show and Tell, The Snake), was born in Meridian, Mississippi (d. 2008)
1940 Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney, American drag racer (1st woman Top Fuel champ), was born in Burlington, Vermont
1941 US President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act
1941 Soviet anthropologist Michael Gerasimov opens tomb of Timurid Empire founder Timur and allegedly finds the inscription that whoever opens the tomb shall "unleash an invader more terrible than I." Three days later Germany invades Russia.
1942 Paul Waner is 7th to get 3,000 baseball hits
1942 Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane, rocker (Spanky & Our Gang-Sunday Will Never Be the Same, Lazy Day) was born
1943 NFL's Philadelphia Eagles & Pittsburgh Steelers merge, (dissolves on Dec 5)
1943 Race riot in Beaumont Texas
1944 Heavy air raid on US fleet at Guam "Turkey Shoot"
1944 Japanese troops conquer Changsha China
1944 World War II: First day of the 2 day Battle of the Philippine Sea, US naval forces defeat Japanese fleet
1944 Five of the "The Magnificent Eleven" photos taken by Robert Capa during the D-Day landings at Omaha Beach, Normandy first published in "Life Magazine"
1946 1st TV sports/boxing spectacular-Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn
1947 1st plane (F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1004 kph)-Albert Boyd, Muroc, California
1950 Ann Wilson, American musician (Heart-Straight On, Magic Man, What About Love, Crazy on You), born in San Diego, California
1952 "I've Got A Secret" debuts on CBS-TV with Garry Moore as host
1953 Larry Dunn, [Dunhill], US keyboardist (Earth Wind & Fire)
1954 Kathleen Turner, American actress (Accidental Tourist, Jewel of Nile), born in Springfield, Missouri
1954 "Taz" Tasmanian Devil, Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Robert McKimson and Warren Foster, (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series), first debuts in "Devil May Hare"
1954 US Open Men's Golf, Baltusrol GC: Ed Furgol wins his only major title, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Gene Littler
1955 US Open Men's Golf, Olympic CC: Jack Fleck wins an 18-hole playoff by 3 strokes to claim his only major title and deny Ben Hogan a record fifth US Open title
1955 Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 100
1956 1956 Doug Stone, American country music singer was born in Marietta, Georgia
1956 Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin end partnership after 16 films
1961 Kuwait declares independence from UK
1961 US Supreme Court struck down a provision in Maryland's constitution requiring state office holders to believe in God
1963 Charter members of Canadian Football Hall of Fame chosen
1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes 73-27
1964 Luther Burbank Home and Gardens, home of the famous horticulturist, is designated a National Historical Landmark in Santa Rosa, California
1965 "Crying In The Chapel" by Elvis Presley remained on top of the US Billboard Easy Listening chart for the fifth week in a row
1967 Paul McCartney admits on TV that he took LSD
1968 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign
1969 State troopers ordered to Cairo Illinoes, to quell racial disturbances
1970 Jim Bouton's controversial "Ball Four" is published
1970 The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed
1971 Mayor declares state of emergency in Columbus Georgia due to racial disturbance
1971 "Rainy Days And Mondays" was #1 for the fourth consecutive week for the Carpenters on the US Billboard Easy Listening chart.
1972 Hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers face flight delays and cancellations after pilots threaten to strike over hijack fears
1972 Tropical storm Agnes upgraded to a hurricane, makes landfall in Panama City (would kill 128)
1973 "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" stage production first opens in London
1973 Baseballers Pete Rose and Willie Davis both get their 2,000th career hit; Rose in a game against the San Francisco Giants and Davis in a game against the Atlanta Braves
1973 Edgar Winter's US No.1 hit 'Frankenstein' was awarded a Gold record. Winter named the song because of how many cuts and patches were contained in the original studio tape
1976 US Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from Earth
1977 US Open Golf, Southern Hills CC: Hubert Green shoots 2-under 278 to beat Lou Graham by 1 stroke
1977 Pope Paul VI makes 19th-cen bishop John Neumann 1st US male saint
1978 "Best Little Whorehouse..." opens at 46th St NYC for 1577 performances
1978 Garfield, created by Jim Davis, 1st appears as a comic strip
1979 In NYC 36,211 show up to witness return of Billy Martin as manager of the New York Yankees
1981 Boeing commercial Chinook 2-rotor helicopter is certified
1981 Heaviest known orange (2.5 kg) exhibited, Nelspruit, South Africa
1982 David Pollack, American football player, UGA All-American, College Football Hall of Fame, was born
1982 John Cougar (John Mellencamp) scored the first Top 10 hit of his career on this date as "Hurts So Good" moved from 17 to 9 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart……..
1984 1st live TV appearance by Chief Justice Warren Burger (Nightline)
1985 Reggie Jackson hits his 513th HR to move into 10th place on the all-time MLB Home Run leaderboard
1987 Supreme Court rules school teaching evolution need not teach creation
1988 World's then largest sausage completed at 13 1/8 miles long
1988 32 divers finish cycling underwater on a standard tricycle, to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20 mins
1989 Barry Switzer resigns as head coach of Oklahoma's football team
1989 Mets Dwight Gooden wins his 100th game (100-37)
1990 Gary Carter catches his 1,862nd career game breaks Al Lopez's NL mark
1991 2 of Mia Farrow's daughters arrested for shoplifting lingerie
1991 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar surrenders to police
1992 Evander Holyfield beats Larry Holmes in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1992 "Batman Returns", starring Michael Keaton as Batman, Danny Devito as the Penguin, and Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, is released
1995 NY Yankees announce agreement with Darryl Strawberry
1999 Stanley Cup, Marine Midland Arena, Buffalo, NY: Dallas Stars edge Buffalo Sabres, 2-1 in triple overtime for 4-2 series win; Brett Hull clinches series with infamous "No Goal" ruling
2000 54th NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Indiana Pacers, 4 games to 2, Shaquille O'Neal MVP
2005 Michael Schumacher wins controversial United States Formula 1 Grand Prix where only 6 of 20 cars complete the race amongst ridicule of F1 safety and tyre rules
2005 US Open Men's Golf, Pinehurst CC: Michael Campbell of New Zealand holds off a charging Tiger Woods to clinch his only major title by 2 shots
2006 Stanley Cup Final, PNC Arena, Raleigh, NC: Carolina Hurricanes beat Edmonton Oilers, 3-1 for a 4-3 series victory; Hurricane's first Championship
2009 "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" directed by Michael Bay and starring Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox is released
2011 US Open Men's Golf, Congressional CC: Irishman Rory McIlroy wins by 8 strokes ahead of Australian Jason Day; sets 11 tournament records, including lowest total 72-hole score (268) and lowest total under par (−16)
2012 A man is beheaded for witchcraft and sorcery in Saudi Arabia
2014 "Transformers: Age of Extinction" directed by Michael Bay and starring Mark Wahlberg premieres in Hong Kong. Highest grossing film of 2014 ($1.104 billion)
2014 4th Critics' Choice Television Awards: Orange Is the New Black wins Best Comedy Series, Breaking Bad wins Best Drama Series
2015 Pixar's animated film "Inside Out" is released with voices by Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Lewis Black, Bill Hader and Mindy Kaling
2016 US Open Men's Golf, Oakmont CC, PA: Despite controversial penalty on the 5th green, Dustin Johnson wins by 3 strokes ahead of runners-up Shane Lowry, Jim Furyk & Scott Piercy
2016 NBA Finals: Cleveland Cavaliers win first title beating defending champion Golden State Warriors, 93-89 for a 4–3 series victory; 1st team to overcome 3–1 deficit; MVP LeBron James 27 points
2017 First full genetic study of cats published in "Nature Ecology and Evolution", reveals domesticated 9,000 years ago, descended from one species (African wildcat)
2017 Russia warns the US it will target US and allied aircraft over Syria after US fighter shoots down Syrian warplane
2017 Bexit negotiations begin between United Kingdom and the European Union in Brussels
2017 Record 65.6 million people displaced around the world in 2016 reported by UN refugee agency
2018 US ambassador Nikki Haley announces the US is leaving the UN Human Rights Council
2018 Canada's Senate votes to legalize recreational marijuana use, first major economy to do so
2018 General Electric is dropped form the Dow Jones Index, the last original member from 1907
2019 US Nxivm sex cult leader Keith Raniere found guilty in New York court of racketeering, sex trafficking and child pornography
2019 Oklahoma writer Joy Harjo is named the first Native American US Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress
2019 UN says over 70 million people in the world are displaced, asylum seekers or refugees around the world, their highest-ever number in 70 years
2019 First debate for a decade in Congress over reparations for slavery with Danny Glover one of the witnesses
2019 US Senators receive a classified briefing on possible UFO sightings by the US Navy
(to be continued.......see follow-up response for more........)
