COACHING HISTORY AND HONORS BULLDOG LORE
NATIONAL COACH OF THE YEAR
While C.E. Morris served as the coach for Georgia’s first team in 1886, Hughie Jennings is credited with being the Bulldogs’ first official coach. He played for 17 years in the Major Leagues while also managing the Detroit Tigers from 1907-20. He was the second shortstop and among the first 35 men elected to the Hall of Fame. Former Bulldog Claude Derrick began his career with the Philadelphia Athletics in 1909 and played on two World Championship teams in 1910 and 1911. In 1912 with Baltimore, Derrick was the first roommate of rookie George Herman Ruth, better known as “The Babe.”
1990: Steve Webber (BA, CB) 2004: David Perno (BA) BA=Baseball America; CB=Collegiate Baseball
David Perno
Steve Webber
SEC COACH OF THE YEAR
1933: W.P. White 1953: Jim Whatley 1954: Jim Whatley 1987: Steve Webber
2001: Ron Polk 2004: David Perno 2008: David Perno
Ike Cousins Head Baseball Coach Scott Stricklin begins the 2021 season with 553 career wins.
W.P. White
Hughie Jennings
M.M. Dickinson
Frank B. Anderson
W.A. Reynolds
Joe Bean
J.V. Sikes
H.J. Stegeman
Hammond Johnson
Robert Sapp
ALL-TIME UGA COACHING RECORDS
Coach C.E. Morris Hughie Jennings M.M. Dickinson W.A. Reynolds Tommy Stouch Hammond Johnson W.J. Lewis Frank B. Anderson Joe Bean J.G. Henderson Glenn Colby H.J. Stegeman W.P. White Vernon Smith J.V. Sikes J.B. Whitworth Charley Trippi Jim Whatley Nolen Richardson Roy Umstattd Steve Webber Robert Sapp Ron Polk David Perno Scott Stricklin
Years 1886 1895-99 1901, 04-05 1902-03 1906-07 1908 1909 1910-13 1914-16 1917 1918 1919-20 1921-33 1934-37 1938-42, 46-47 1943 1948-49 1950, 52-75 1951 1976-80 1981-1996 1997-99 2000-01 2002-13 2014-current
W 2 25 18 13 12 20 - 50 33 - - 31 224 31 101 1 34 336 12 130 500 77 79 390 203
L 0 17 14 9 9 2 - 17 16 - - 13 100 43 62 10 18 327 13 100 403 87 48 335 161
*Note: No records available for 1887-95, 1900-01, 1907, 1909-10, 1916-18. No team fielded in 1944-45.
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T 0 0 0 1 0 0 - 3 1 - - 2 7 1 1 0 0 3 0 1 1 1 0 1 1
Pct. 1.000 .595 .563 .482 .571 .909
.736 .670 .681 .687 .420 .619 .090 .654 .507 .480 .565 .554 .470 .622 .538 .557
Jim Whatley
Ron Polk
WEBBER JOINS CIRCLE OF HONOR IN 2018
The Circle of Honor is the UGA Athletic Association’s all sports recognition program which is designed to pay tribute to extraordinary University of Georgia student-athletes and coaches who by their performance and conduct have brought honor to the university and themselves, and who by their actions have contributed to the tradition of the Georgia Bulldogs. The criteria for selection also stipulate that each recipient has earned his or her academic degree. Steve Webber, who is the winningest baseball coach in Georgia history with 500 victories between 1981 and 1996, was part of the Circle of Honor Class of 2018. He led Georgia to its first two College World Series appearances including winning the 1990 national championship, the first for the Southeastern Conference in the sport. At the time of his induction, the native Iowan and graduate of Southern Illinois University, was just the fifth among all 79 inductees that are not UGA alumni.
Jim Whatley (left) won 337 games in his Bulldog career while Steve Webber (right) won 500 games as the Georgia skipper. In 2018, Webber was inducted into UGA’s exclusive Circle of Honor. 2021 Georgia BULLDOG Baseball
