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Charley Trippi

Georgia Football

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When I came to Georgia I didn’t know what really was going to transpire because I heard a lot of bad things about Georgia. I had one failure. Some fella came to Georgia and told me, “Boy, when you go to Georgia,“ he says, “it is like a meat house and they just scrimmage all the time, and knock the hell out of you,” and everything like that. He kind of discouraged me. But when I came to Georgia, I have a job to do, because here I am playing the same position as an All American, Frank Sinkwich, you know, and who was touted to be a Heisman Award winner … and I said to myself, “Boy, I have got a job to do here.” So my sophomore year...

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