re: SEC Trivia - Which 4 teams played the 1943 Season?

I mean... you can keep looking like an idiot on your own, or I can help you... your pick...

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Each fall Jason Hasty, the Hargrett Library’s UGA athletics history specialist, curates an exhibit that explores the University of Georgia’s athletics program. “Fighting Spirit” uses photographs, textiles, and other historic material drawn from the UGA Athletic Association collection to tell the story of Wally Butts, the coach who built a program and guided it to the pinnacle of success only to see his team dismantled by the needs of war.

“The story of Georgia’s first trip to the Rose Bowl in 1943 is well-known,” said Hasty, “but what’s talked about less often is that this championship team ceased to exist as soon as that game ended. When many of his best players enlisted or were drafted into service, Coach Butts had to guide the program through the war years and then rebuild the team with returning GIs.”

The story of Walter Ruark, co-captain for the 1942 season, gives voice to the many players who gave their all on the football field and the battlefield. “Ruark was a phenomenal player on that team, but then he entered the service and never made it back home,” said Hasty. Walter Ruark’s Rose Bowl uniform, on loan from his daughter, Pat Fleming of Clarkesville, will serve as a centerpiece in the exhibit.

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UGA’s policy on students departing their studies for World War II was: “Any student who left for service would be permitted to resume his education after the war ‘as nearly as possible at the point where it was interrupted’” (Dyer, 243-244).

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The U.S. Navy built several new buildings on campus (Dyer, 243) and operated a Pre-Flight School at the University of Georgia Campus. As one of only five such schools in the nation, the program trained approximately 20,000 cadets in the skills needed as combat pilots in the Pacific Theater. The Navy utilized most of the existing campus and built numerous buildings and athletic facilities used by the college in later years.

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Just because we fielded a team doesn't mean we didn't send our students to fight... If you can't read, I suppose that's a you problem.