All Dog Breeds: R.I.P. "Ugga"

R.I.P. "Ugga"
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Sara Kester on 24 March, 2010 04:00:00
 
Uga VII passed away in November 2009 at only four years of age and during only
his second football season with the University of Georgia.  The passing of this
pup was unexpected as he had received a clean bill of health only a week earlier
from his veterinarian.  The departed mascots are interred in a mausoleum within
the confines of the University of Georgia stadium.
Uga VII was the latest of mascots in the team’s 54 year history.  He was the
largest of the previous mascots, weighing 56 ½ pounds.  His official name is
UGA VII Loran’s Best and was named after long-time Georgia Athletic
Association personality Loran Smith.
Uga VII's Record
Year:   2009   2008
Wins:   6      10
Losses: 4       3
The UGA mascot is always provided by the Seiler family of Georgia, who raises
English Bulldogs as family pets.
Although one of the Seilers’ other dogs is filling in as the interim mascot
for the University of Georgia football team, it’s not clear whether it will be
named as successor and become Uga VIII.  A search is still underway of Uga
VII’s brood of heirs.
The seventh in the Uga line of Georgia mascots was introduced to the Georgia
people on Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008, during pre-game ceremonies of the Bulldogs’
season opener against Georgia Southern. “Loran’s Best” officially became
“Uga VII” as he was escorted onto the field by members of the Seiler family.
The Georgia Bulldog mascot is the nation's most well-known mascot in over 100
years of collegiate history. The line of pure white English has been owned by
the Frank W. "Sonny" Seiler family of Savannah, Ga., since Uga I first graced
the campus in 1956. Although the University of Georgia is now known as the home
of Uga, the pure white English bulldog, several mascots led the Red and Black
before Frank W. Seiler provided the current lineage.
History of UGA bulldog mascots:
1.Uga VII Loran's Best
2.Uga VI  Uga V's Whatchagot Loran
3.UGA IV  Magillicuddy II
4.Uga IV  Seiler's Uga Four
5.Uga III Seiler's Uga Three
6.Uga II  Ole Dan's Uga
7.Uga     Hood's Ole Dan
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