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James Wallace "Wally" Butts, Jr. (February 7, 1905 – December 17, 1973) was the head football coach (seasons 1939 through 1960) and athletic director (1939 to 1963) at the University of Georgia.
Butts was a 1929 graduate of Mercer University where he played college football. He was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1966 and in the College Football Hall of Fame in 1997 as a coach.
In the 1960s he filed a libel lawsuit against the Saturday Evening Post after it ran an article alleging that he and Bear Bryant had conspired to fix games. Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts, as it ultimately became when it reached the Supreme Court, was a landmark libel case. The court ruled in his favor in 1967, and the Post was ordered to pay $3 million to him in damages, an amount which led to the venerable Post's demise two years later.
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