Fall 2002

Otis Boggs: Longtime ‘Voice of the Gators’

Otis Boggs (l) with radio sidekick Bob Leach

The “Voice of the Gators” on WRUF for more than 40 years is silent.

Otis Boggs, LS 1943, died Aug. 28 in Gainesville. He was 82.

Boggs began his long career on WRUF in 1939 and became play-by-play announcer in 1940. He left that role in 1982.

He was honored as an alumnus of distinction in the College in 1989 and was named to the Florida Sports Hall of Fame in 1990.

Boggs teamed with Bob Leach (“The Bob and Otis Show”) and later Jim Finch (“The OJ Show”), for popular morning talk shows on WRUF-AM.

Leach died in February 1986, and Finch died Feb. 24 at the age of 69.