Georgia Southern Eagles Football
The Georgia Southern Eagles represent Georgia Southern University in football as part of the Southern Conference under head coach Jeff Monken. The Eagles have won an unprecedented six FCS (I-AA) national championships and nine Southern Conference championships and have produced two Walter Payton Award winners. The Eagles first continuously fielded a football team in 1924; however, play was suspended for World War II and revived in 1981.
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—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)
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—Donald Hall (b. 1928)