Ronnie Hogue, the first Black men’s basketball scholarship student-athlete at the University of Georgia, died Friday morning. He was 69.
A native of Washington, D.C. and residing in Maryland, Hogue arrived in Athens in the fall of 1969. He departed in 1973 as one of the best players of his time, or any other era of basketball for the Bulldogs.Â
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