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College football - and Bulldogs - back with a bang
Fresh off the
first weekend of
high school football
games that counted,
we find ourselves
smack dab inside
the college football season, as well.
The Miami Hurricanes and Flori
da Gators got the party started with
their Saturday evening tilt in the old
Citrus Bowl in Orlando, now known
as Camping World Stadium.
Then, while you were sleeping, Ar
izona and Hawaii did battle into the
wee hours of Sunday in Aloha Stadi
um in Honolulu.
Thus began the 151st season of
intercollegiate gridiron competition,
which began in 1869 with a game be
tween the only two schools in Ameri
ca fielding a football team at the time,
Rutgers University and Princeton
- then known as the College of New
Jersey.
Using rules set down by something
called the The Football Association,
Rutgers won that inaugural clash
6-4. Princeton won the rematch a
week later, 8-0.
By 1870, Columbia was fielding a
team and, in 1872, Yale joined the
fray.
It wasn’t until 1912 that touch
downs were universally recognized
as counting for six points, thus, that
is as good a year as any to trace our
current game’s origins.
It’s been thrilling generations of
fans ever since.
The first Thursday night slate
of games kicks off this week featur
ing none other than the defending
national champions as Dabo Swin-
ney’s very talented Clemson Tigers
- favored by 36 points - welcome the
Yellow Jackets of Georgia Tech into
Death Valley.
Might want to hide the women and
children.
The only Southeastern Conference
team in action Thursday is Texas
A&M, which hosts Texas State - a
team the Aggies have never faced,
oddly enough.
There are also a smattering of
games Friday, several of which in
volve Big Ten squads, and everybody
else begins play the following day.
My beloved Georgia Bulldogs - who
began playing football in 1892 - be
gin their season Saturday, facing a
Southeastern Conference foe on its
home turf.
The Vanderbilt Commodores will
welcome the Dawgs to their Nashville
home with upset on their mind.
Hopefully, Kirby Smart’s Red Clay
Hounds will be up to the challenge:
starting 0-1 on the season and in
conference play is not something any
team wants to do.
The Dawgs are ranked No. 3 in the
poll recently released by AP, which
means nothing since no teams had
played a game when it was unveiled,
and the AP poll doesn’t factor into the
only “poll” that counts, the College
Football Playoff rankings.
But, better to be ranked third by
so-called experts than 103rd, so we
roll with it.
Georgia’s regular season schedule
sets up nicely and portends a very
successful campaign for the Clas
sic City Canines. The Dawgs have
seven home games and just four road
games, plus the annual Cocktail Par
ty in Jacksonville.
There is no LSU on this year’s
slate, and the only current Top 25
team Georgia has to play away from
home is Auburn, ranked No. 16 in the
(rather meaningless) preseason AP
poll.
By that mid-November match
up, that ranking could prove to have
been just wishful thinking.
The only other SEC road games
are Saturday’s tilt at Vandy and an
early October date at Tennessee.
The 2019 Georgia schedule (clip
and save):
Saturday at Vanderbilt
Sept. 7 Murray State
Sept. 14 Arkansas State
Sept. 21 Notre Dame
Oct. 5 at Tennessee
Oct. 12 South Carolina
Oct. 19 Kentucky
Nov. 2 Florida (in Jax)
Nov. 9 Missouri
Nov. 16 at Auburn
Nov. 23 Texas A&M
Nov. 30 at Georgia Tech
Summary: Note the strategically
placed off dates: after Notre Dame
and before the resumption of the
SEC schedule on the road at Tennes
see and the week before the Florida
game. The seven consecutive confer
ence games beginning with Tennes
see are a concern, but at least five of
those are at home.
Enjoy the season.
In case you missed it: All three
area high school teams fell in their
season openers Friday. Coffee de
feated Brunswick High 38-21, Fort
Dorchester, S.C. downed Glynn Acad
emy 31-6, and Charlton County beat
Frederica Academy 20-7.
Next week: Be on the lookout
for The Islander’s special Football
Page, featuring scores, stats, sched
ules, point spreads, polls, photos and
more!
— Dave Jordan is a native of Ma-
hleton, a University of Georgia gradu
ate, and a diehard St. Louis Cardi
nals fan.
August 26, 2019, The Islander, Page 13
SGHS Diabetes
Education Services
Merit ADA
Recognition
The prestigious American Diabe
tes Association Education Recogni
tion Certificate for a quality diabetes
self-management education and sup
port (DSMES) service was recently
awarded to the diabetes education
programs at the Southeast Georgia
Health System Brunswick and Cam
den campuses. ADA believes that this
program offers high-quality education
that is an essential component of ef
fective diabetes treatment.
The Association’s Education Rec
ognition Certificate assures that edu
cational services meet the National
Standards for Diabetes Self-Manage
ment Education and Support. The
DSMES Standards were developed
and tested under the auspices of the
National Diabetes Advisory Board in
1983 and were revised by the diabetes
community in 1994, 2000, 2007, 2012
and 2017.
DSMES services apply for Recogni
tion voluntarily. Services that achieve
Recognition status have a staff of
knowledgeable health professionals
who can provide participants with
comprehensive information about dia
betes management. “The process gives
professionals a national standard by
which to measure the quality of ser
vices they provide, comments Sue
Ullrich, R.N., MA.Ed., CDE, diabetes
program coordinator, Southeast Geor
gia Health System. “And, of course, it
assures the consumer that he or she
will likely receive high-quality ser
vice.” Education Recognition status is
verified by an official certificate from
ADA and awarded for four years.
For more information about the
Health System’s diabetes education
program, visit sghs.org/diabetes-ed-
ucation or call 912-466-1689 (Bruns
wick) or 912-576-6488 (Camden).
Manning Aviation
completes fuel farm
Manning Aviation, the fixed-base
operator (FBO) for the Brunswick
Golden Isles Airport, has completed
the construction of their new fuel farm
and is providing service to its many
commercial industrial and private
aviation customers.
The new facility offers two
20,000-gallon tanks of jet fuel and a
12,000-gallon tank for piston prop air
craft AvGas as part of their $3.5 mil
lion expansion project at the airport.
“This is an important part of our
operations here at the airport,” noted
Robert Burr. “There are several com
panies that fly very large planes from
BQK and for long distances. That cre
ates a demand for high quality fuel
service, which is what customers have
enjoyed from Manning Aviation for
many years.”
The new FBO building is scheduled
to be completed and open for full ser
vice to pilots and passengers in the
coming weeks.
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