Athens native Richard Appleby Looks Back on His Days at Georgia

Sidelines & Headlines · Oct 27, 2026 · 48m

Richard Appleby is famous in Georgia football lore for his end-around pass to Gene Washington to beat Florida 10-7 in the Gator Bowl in 1975. But there is much more to his story than that one play. He visits with host Blake Giles to talk about his memories. The African-American community was excited in 1970 when Georgia recruited its first black athletes in football, including Appleby and two other Clarke Central teammates, Horace King and Clarence Pope, along with Chuck Kennebrew and Larry West. He was reluctant to go to Georgia, because Vince Dooley emphasized the running game, rather than…