1947 was a rebuilding year for the Bulldogs with the departure of Charley Trippi and most of the core of returning GIs. The team managed a respectable 7-4-1 record for the season.
Joel Hunt coached at UGA for only one season, going 5-5-1 in 1938. He had no previous head coaching experience, having been an assistant at Texas A&M and LSU. After UGA, he was head coach for one season at Wyoming.
T-Formation quarterback John Rauch started every game (45 games total) for the Bulldogs between 1945 and 1948 and was the first player in NCAA history to start in four consecutive bowl games. Rauch was named All-SEC and All-American in his senior…
Joseph Brown Connally was a football player on the University of Georgia's undefeated 1896 team. In 1918, while serving in the U.S. Army in combat on the Western Front, Connally was exposed to poison gas. He was invalided home, then finally died of…