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Kirby's Augusta - Football in Augusta!

Many colleges are adding football teams these days. In recent years, Georgia State in Atlanta and Kennesaw State in the suburbs have created teams. Other schools such as Mercer and Paine College have returned to the gridiron after years without. Would our local state college consider adding football to an athletic portfolio that includes the 2010 and 2011 national championships in golf? Probably not. There doesn't seem to be any student groundswell for the sport, but that might be because few know the Junior College of Augusta, later Augusta College, later Augusta State and now a hilltop redoubt of the Georgia Regents, once had a football team. In fact, the nickname "Jaguars" first appeared in The Augusta Chronicle describing such a squad. Records are not easy to find on the subject, but it appears the onetime Junior College of Augusta last fielded a team in 1933 before Depression economics ended the competition. The Chronicle's accounts of that gridiron group are a bit difficult to follow, but it appears they played other small schools or the freshmen teams of larger colleges. The coach was Bobby Gressette, and the team's best game appears to have been its final one on Nov. 25, 1933 -- a 19-0 shutout of Young Harris, the college in north Georgia. The final touchdown, perhaps the last football score in Augusta College history, came near the end of the game and inspired a bit of editorializing from Chronicle sports writer Bill Humphrey, who covered the game played at Richmond Academy. "Delph," he wrote "... darted through right tackle, shifted sharply to the right and twisted through the secondary defense for the touchdown. It was a beautiful play." Humphrey ended his story with a look ahead to a promising 1934 season, citing the team's center Dorroh Nowell, who "has developed into one of the smartest linemen to serve the school. He will return next season." Unfortunately, there does not appear to have been a team the next year. That didn't stop Nowell from achieving success. He went on to become president of the 1935 junior college graduating class, then attended Georgia Tech. He returned to Augusta after World War II service and took on decades of leadership roles in business, in the community and in his church. He became president of Merry Cos. and president of the Chamber of Commerce. When he died in 2006, Dorroh Nowell’s obituary included many, many achievements. We did not, however, mention that he was a star lineman on the school's last football team. Allow me to correct the oversight. "Go, Jaguars!"