WALLY BUTTS

'James Wallace "Wally" Butts, Jr.' (February 7, 1905 – December 17, 1973) was the head football coach (seasons 1939 through 1960) and athletic director (1939 to 1963) at the University of Georgia.
Butts was a 1929 graduate of Mercer University where he played college football under coach Bernie Moore. Butts was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1966 and in the College Football Hall of Fame in 1997.
In the 1960s he filed a libel lawsuit against the ''Saturday Evening Post'' after it ran an article alleging that he and Bear Bryant had conspired to fix games. ''Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts'', as it ultimately became when it reached the Supreme Court, was a landmark libel case. The court ruled in his favor in 1967, and the ''Post'' was ordered to pay $3.06 million to him in damages, an amount which was later lowered to $460,000. Wally Butts, Ex-Georgia Coach, Dies; Won Large Libel Suit Coached Noted Players This settlement was seen as a contributing factor in the demise of the venerable ''Post'' two years later.
Butts died suddenly at his home from an apparent heart attack in 1973 and was buried in Oconee Hill Cemetery in Athens.

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