1938 GACA North/South Game
Aug. 26, 1938 (first game in series)
Site: Grant Field
Score: North 25, South 6
Personnel
Coaches
North
Head coach
- Joel Hunt (Georgia)
Assistants
- Elmer Lampe (Georgia)
- J.V. Sikes (Georgia)
- Wally Butts (Georgia)
- Claude "Gabe" Tolbert, Tech
South
Head coach
- W. A. Alexander (Georgia Tech)
Assistants
- Mack Tharpe (Georgia Tech)
- Bobby Dodd (Georgia Tech)
- Selby Buck, Lanier (Macon)
North
Key players
- Bobby Pair (Tech, HB)
- Cliff “Truck” Kimsey (Cornelia, HB)
- Billy Wingate (Monroe A&M, FB)
- Buster Brown (Elberton, G)
- Jamie Timberlake (Tech, E)
- Winfred Goodman (Commercial, G)
- Steve Hughes (Darlington, T)
- Carlton Lee (Tech, T)
- Charlie Hood (Tech, G)
- Leo Costa (Athens, C)
- Jimmy Hilton (Canton, HB)
- Johnny Bosch (GMA, HB)
- Ralph Plaster (Tech, HB)
- Ray Miller (Boys, HB)
South
Key players
- Clarence Welch (Lanier, HB)
- William Burt (Lanier, E)
- Richard White (Lanier, E)
- Joe Edwards (Lanier, QB)
- Charlie McCullough (Lanier, T)
- Phillip Williams (Tifton, G)
- Pokey Brady (Waycross, C)
- Elliott Galloway (Moultrie, G)
- Ralph Willis (Tifton, T)
- Matt Fisher (Albany, E)
- Oscar Dalton (Valdosta, FB)
- Stewart Richardson (Lanier, HB)
- Arthur Yancy (Fitzgerald, B)
- Bill Goodloe (Valdosta, G)
Game summary
The first GACA All-Star game looked a lot like Tech v. Lanier as four Smithies and five Poets were in the starting lineup. Clarence “Nub” Welch of Lanier returned a punt 80 yards to put the South ahead 6-0 in the first. GMA’s Johnny Bosch set up the first North score with a 61-yard run to the 9. Jimmy Hilton got the touchdown on a 2-yard line buck and added another 2-yard score to give the North a 12-6 lead at halftime. The Yanks scored insurance touchdowns in the third (Cliff “Truck” Kimsey 2 run) and fourth (Ray Miller 5 run) and Ralph Plaster kicked one extra point. Bosch’s excellent play in the game earned him a scholarship to Georgia Tech where he had an outstanding career. Leon Culberson of Rome, who would play in the 1946 World Series with the Boston Red Sox, was a substitute halfback for the North.