That s what s important. Only Shawn Jones, field general of Tech s 1990 National Championship team, has better numbers. This time around, though, he will be in the running for bigger honors, including all-America and Heisman Trophy consideration. For half a century, Dan Burge has been a physician to spectators at Georgia Tech football games By John Dunn A football season for Dr. Dan Burge is sometimes a matter of life and death. For more than 50 years, Burge has been a Georgia Tech stadium physician not a team doctor or player doctor but a doctor looking after the well-being of football fans.
Burge can relate to football fans.
In fact, he was named stadium physician after World War II a volunteer post for which he receives a parking place and two tickets. I ve never complained about that, Burge said, and that s true of the other doctors. Georgia Tech now has six physicians strategically placed in the stadium. Burge, who will be 80 years old in October, is the senior doctor, assigned to the President s box and the executive boxes in the south end. Stadium doctors at Grant Field serve two functions.