Dan Magill speaks to students

Dan Magill, the legendary University of Georgia tennis coach, sports promoter and World War II veteran, has done and seen many amazing things. Yet when questioned about his greatest accomplishment of all during an interview with journalism students at the university today, the 87-year-old responded, “Winning the hand of Rosemary, my wife.”
Magill, whose fame is well-known around the university’s city of Athens (his seat in the stadium’s press box reads simply, “Dan Magill–The Legend”)­, reminisced about many events throughout his illustrious life. One of his favorite memories, he claimed, was winning a bid to the 1941 Orange Bowl after triumphing over Auburn with a score of 7-0.
Another fond memory he recalled was during his time at boot camp in the United States Marine Cops, in which he listened outside of a window, in the freezing cold, to a drill sergeant’s radio broadcasting of the 1943 Rose Bowl, which Georgia also won.
Magill also spoke concerning whether or not other sports get the publicity they deserve at the college, where football is clearly dominant. “Football makes so much money that it really finances the others,” he said. “It certainly deserves the attention.”