While December is for celebrating the holidays, it can be a down time for those who lose a member of the family, which is why this tribute is overdue.
One of Georgia’s most competitive, hard-nosed and exciting players moved on to that gridiron in the sky in the final month of last year. The aforementioned description of Bill Godfrey is less than adequate for a man who gave no quarter on the football field in the fifties which were not good to his coach, Wallace Butts, who had won three Southeastern Conference titles — the Orange, Rose and Sugar Bowls in the forties — with high octane offenses, led by Frank Sinkwich, Charley Trippi and John Rauch.
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