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...Boots Donnelly will be back on the campus at Middle Tennessee State on Oct. 3 for the unveiling of his statue on the front lawn of the Kennon Sports Hall of Fame building.
“People think I want it to look like me,” Donnelly told me. “I don’t. I hope they used a picture from when I was 20 years old.”
Unveiling of the 6-foot-6 bronze statue will be at 3:30 p.m. The Blue Raiders play Vanderbilt in their homecoming at 6 p.m., and Donnelly plans to stick around for the game....
...Boots Donnelly will be back on the campus at Middle Tennessee State on Oct. 3 for the unveiling of his statue on the front lawn of the Kennon Sports Hall of Fame building.
“People think I want it to look like me,” Donnelly told me. “I don’t. I hope they used a picture from when I was 20 years old.”
Unveiling of the 6-foot-6 bronze statue will be at 3:30 p.m. The Blue Raiders play Vanderbilt in their homecoming at 6 p.m., and Donnelly plans to stick around for the game....