Opinion Column: Here’s how Sanford Stadium got its fabled privet hedges

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By Dink NeSmith on Wednesday, August 16, 2023

dnesmith@cninewspapers.com 


 

  • Thanks to the ingenuity of the great-grandfathers of Lamartine Griffin (Lam) Hardman V, left, and Henri Leon (Beau) Farmer IV, the Georgia Bulldogs have played between the hedges in Sanford Stadium since 1929. Today, Lam Hardman, left, is a senior at Athens Academy, thinking about UGA. Beau, right, is a junior, studying accounting, at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville. (SUBMITTED PHOTO)
    Thanks to the ingenuity of the great-grandfathers of Lamartine Griffin (Lam) Hardman V, left, and Henri Leon (Beau) Farmer IV, the Georgia Bulldogs have played between the hedges in Sanford Stadium since 1929. Today, Lam Hardman, left, is a senior at Athens Academy, thinking about UGA. Beau, right, is a junior, studying accounting, at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville. (SUBMITTED PHOTO)
  • Lam (SUBMITTED PHOTO)
    Lam (SUBMITTED PHOTO)
  • Beau (SUBMITTED PHOTO)
    Beau (SUBMITTED PHOTO)

    A version of this column was first published on Feb. 27, 2013.

     

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