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re: Who is the greatest athlete ever from your school?
Posted on 7/10/23 at 11:55 am to AwgustaDawg
Posted on 7/10/23 at 11:55 am to AwgustaDawg
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Be hard pressed to beat Hines Ward out at UGA....at least as a football player...dude played almost every position on the field except on either side of the line (for all I know he may have taken a snap or two, he did at most positions) and played at a very high level at all of them...and lead the SEC in popcorn sells 2 seasons...
Georgia had Ward...and Champ Bailey that were swiss army knives, capable of playing so many different positions. I never understood why so many people thought it made sense for Charles Woodson to win the Heisman in '97, but the closest Ward or Bailey ever got was when Bailey finished 6th in voting.
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Posted on 7/10/23 at 1:53 pm to madmaxvol
Perhaps an athlete who was just great...
Dr. Denton A. Cooley, a college basketball star at Texas in the 1940's, performed the first totally artificial heart transplant in 1969.
He founded the Texas Heart Institute in 1962 and continued performing surgery until his 87th birthday, remaining active as President Emeritus until the Monday before he died at age 96.
By age 50 he had performed more than 5,000 cardiac operations, including 17 heart transplants. It has been estimated that over four decades, Cooley and his associates performed an estimated 100,000 open-heart surgeries — more than any other surgeon in the world.
Denton Cooley
Dr. Denton A. Cooley, a college basketball star at Texas in the 1940's, performed the first totally artificial heart transplant in 1969.
He founded the Texas Heart Institute in 1962 and continued performing surgery until his 87th birthday, remaining active as President Emeritus until the Monday before he died at age 96.
By age 50 he had performed more than 5,000 cardiac operations, including 17 heart transplants. It has been estimated that over four decades, Cooley and his associates performed an estimated 100,000 open-heart surgeries — more than any other surgeon in the world.
Denton Cooley
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