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Transcript from "Championships"

I was having token playing time the first three games of the season in 1942 … but apparently what I did during that period of time, the coaches were impressed. So I did probably something that the team never experienced… they put me in the backfield with Frank and Frank moved to full back and I was the tail back … And, of course, we went on to win ten out of eleven games that year. We ended up in the Rose Bowl. When we got out to the Rose Bowl, Frank came up with two bad ankles … and the day before the Rose Bowl Game, Coach Butts corners me and says, “You know, Charley, you are going to have to go all the way, cause Frank cannot play. “ I says, “Well, I am ready to play. I says, “Whatever happens, I don’t know, but I am ready to play.” So I did play 58 minutes of that game, which is very unusual today. Back then we played on both sides of the football, we played offense and defense. Coach Butts had a philosophy in football. If you can’t play defense, you can’t play offense. So we adapted to that sort of system and to me … I played in a lot of outstanding games during my career, but the Rose Bowl would always stick out, being probably the greatest thrill I ever got out of football. While I was at Georgia I played in three Bowl games. I played in a game in Montgomery, Alabama, North-South Game. I played in that. Then I played in four college All-Star games. I am the only guy that ever played in four college All-Star games in Chicago. Back then, they didn’t have rules when you were in the service. I would always allocate my furlough to play in the game, which I did. I also played the fifth time in the All-Star game as a pro. When you won the championship game, then the next year you played the college All-Stars and that is what we did,…