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WATCH: UGA shares archival footage of trip to 1943 Rose Bowl

The last time Georgia football traveled to the Rose Bowl was in 1943.
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Georgia shares footage of trip to 1943 Rose Bowl

On Tuesday, the Georgia football team traveled to Southern California ahead of its game against Oklahoma in the Rose Bowl. It’s just the second time in UGA history the Dawgs have made the trip westward for the Rose Bowl, with the last trip to Pasadena coming almost 75 years ago in 1943.

Amazingly, there is color footage from Georgia’s trip out west and the game itself, which Georgia won 9-0 over the UCLA Bruins. The footage — released by the University of Georgia’s Twitter account courtesy of UGA Libraries — features the Bulldogs arriving in California by train as well as highlights of Heisman winner Frank Sinkwich and his Dawgs’ win against the Bruins. This extended footage also shows the teams’ trip to Paramount Studios, where they met stars of the time such as Bob Hope, Spencer Tracy and Ginger Rogers.

But the most striking thing about the footage, in my opinion, is the silver helmets. I had heard about the silver hats UGA wore in from the ’40s until Vince Dooley was hired in the ’60s, but this was my first time seeing them in action, in color. And, I must say, they look sweet as hell. After Georgia wore those atrocious alternate uniforms against Boise State in 2011, I thought I add sworn off all alternate Georgia helmets. But after watching the ’42 Dawgs sporting the silver, I could get on board with throwback silver lids to match the traditional silver britches.

‘A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’

Maybe it means something and maybe it means nothing, but many of Georgia’s national champion football players (and one Rose Bowl winner) see plenty of similarities between themselves and the current Dawgs. Chip Towers of DawgNation caught up with a handful of former Dawgs, such as Buck Belue and Frank Ros, to see what they think about this team.

You should of course check all that out. But in light of the above section about the 1943 Rose Bowl, I thought this anecdote from Charley Trippi, a member of that team, was entertaining.

Halfback Charley Trippi received the “Helms Award” as the game’s outstanding player after rushing 27 times for 115 yards in the victory over the Bruins before 90,000 people. The Bulldogs also blocked a punt for a safety for their other score.

Trippi turned 96 years old on Dec. 14 but remembers that trip to Pasadena as if it were yesterday. He said one of the keys to the Bulldogs’ victory was taking the game seriously.

“That was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Trippi said. “It took us three days to get there on a train, but that’s because Coach [Wally] Butts would have it stop every day and we’d get out and practice, or just run. We had fun, but we went out there with a purpose. We went there with the intention of winning the game. And we did.”

Yante Maten named SEC Player of the Week

Yante Maten was named SEC Player of the Week in the wake of outstanding performances in wins over Georgia Tech and Temple. The senior forward averaged 27 points and 9 rebounds in the two wins, including a season-high 30-point outing against Temple. Maten is living up to the considerable hype he entered the season with and is currently averaging a career-high of 20.2 points per game and 9.3 rebounds per game. Georgia is 9-2 and begins SEC play on New Year’s Eve with a trip to Lexington to face the Kentucky Wildcats.

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