Long before Stetson Bennett IV was at Georgia, his grandfather was a QB for Gamecocks
The grainy photos of a 1959 South Carolina-Georgia football game residing at the top of Page 11-A of the Columbia Record newspaper run from one side to the other. The four images are action shots — or at least what constituted action shots more than six decades ago — lined up in a row just beneath the masthead. The quarterback donning a No. 14 jersey darts out of the pocket. The second picture depicts him racing around the edge. He then turns upfield and runs past a defender before his feet are clipped.
Bennett’s exact impact on that game between South Carolina and a Fran Tarkenton-quarterbacked Georgia squad isn’t exactly known. His name didn’t appear in the scoring summary. The game stories from the contest are also largely lost to time. The only real proof he played are those aforementioned photos — though even that 14-yard scamper was called back because of a holding penalty, according to the caption. Bennett’s impact aside, that Gamecocks win handed the Bulldogs their only loss of the 1959 season. It was that afternoon that kept Georgia from potentially claiming what would’ve been the program’s second national title. Monday, the grandson of that blurry figure in the Columbia Record will have his own shot at a championship when UGA quarterback Stetson Bennett IV lines up under center against No. 1 Alabama on the turf at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
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The grainy photos of a 1959 South Carolina-Georgia football game residing at the top of Page 11-A of the Columbia Record newspaper run from one side to the other. The four images are action shots — or at least what constituted action shots more than six decades ago — lined up in a row just beneath the masthead. The quarterback donning a No. 14 jersey darts out of the pocket. The second picture depicts him racing around the edge. He then turns upfield and runs past a defender before his feet are clipped.
Bennett’s exact impact on that game between South Carolina and a Fran Tarkenton-quarterbacked Georgia squad isn’t exactly known. His name didn’t appear in the scoring summary. The game stories from the contest are also largely lost to time. The only real proof he played are those aforementioned photos — though even that 14-yard scamper was called back because of a holding penalty, according to the caption. Bennett’s impact aside, that Gamecocks win handed the Bulldogs their only loss of the 1959 season. It was that afternoon that kept Georgia from potentially claiming what would’ve been the program’s second national title. Monday, the grandson of that blurry figure in the Columbia Record will have his own shot at a championship when UGA quarterback Stetson Bennett IV lines up under center against No. 1 Alabama on the turf at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
Read more at: https://www.thestate.com/sports/col...-football/article257126472.html#storylink=cpy
