Names in the News - Oct. 1, 1988
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Vernon (Catfish) Smith, an end who led Georgia to one of its greatest upset victories, over Yale, 15-0, in 1929, and was a member of the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame, died at his home in La Jolla. He was 80.
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