The other day Claude Felton, Georgia's director of sports information, asked me who was the Bulldogs' oldest living athlete.

"Fred Birchmore," I quickly answered. "He's nearly 96, born Nov. 29, 1911 on Dougherty Street just a block from the First Methodist Church where he grew up and still directs the singing in his Sunday school group."

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He named his bike "Bucephelus" for Alexander the Great's famous war horse. "Bucephelus," the bike, has long been in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. When I visited there in 1941, it was standing next to Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis."