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Atlanta Tech Vs Georgia - An Good old Fashioned Rivalry
Separated by 70 miles associated with interstate between Atlanta and Athens Georgia, and founded 100 years apart, The particular Georgia Institute involving Technology (Georgia Tech) and the College of Georgia (UGA) have been competitors since 1893 inside more than simply soccer. Competing for anything in the condition of Georgia, coming from potential students plus fans to federal government grants and educational recognition (Georgia Technical is an executive research university whilst UGA is some sort of liberal arts analysis university). However , it is on the particular gridiron that this particular rivalry excels.

The dislike the particular 2 schools have regarding each other most likely started right following the Civil Battle in order to was decided which a new technological institution should be started. Then UGA us president Patrick Mell attempted to convince lawmakers that the new school should end up being located by Georgia's main campus found in Athens. despite their efforts, The Georgia Institute of Technologies began near typically the city limits of Atlanta in 1885.

It didn't consider long for the very first hostilities to begin only a few years later on in 1891 over, of things, the particular school colors. UGA's school magazine announced the school colours to be rare metal, grayscale crimson. Georgia's football coach sensed that gold seemed to be crowded to yellow, which he felt symboled cowardice. Of which same year even so, the Tech scholar body voted whitened and gold because the official college colors. In their primary ever football game against Auburn, Tech would use rare metal on their football uniforms, some felt like a slap within the face associated with Georgia. Two many years later, after Technical defeated Georgia inside their first basketball game, gold was forever removed through Georgia's school colors.

That first fateful game took location in Athens in November 4, 1893 with Georgia Technical, then referred to as Blacksmiths, won by a credit score of 28 instructions 6. But it really was who scored those 4 touchdowns that started the rivalry. Leonard Wood was some sort of 33 yr old PEOPLE Army Physician who else was officially listed as an Atlanta Tech student a great just one or two days ahead of the game. However, being a fulltime pupil, he was eligible to play. This simple fact upset Georgia followers since during along with the game that they hurled rocks the debris at most the Tech gamers. The next day time an article inside the Atlanta Journal, by simply an Athens activities writer, mocked of which Tech's football team was nothing a lot more than a collection of Atlanta residents with a few pupils thrown in.

Some sort of rivalry was created.

For the next several years, Georgia Tech's football program would conduct very poorly. As a result, that they chose to hire some sort of new coach from another rival college, Clemson. In 1904, John Heisman was paid $2, two hundred fifity and 30% regarding attendance fees to be able to be Georgia Tech's football and baseball coach. (NOTE: following retiring from training football in 1927, he became of the Downtown Athletic Team in Manhattan in 1935. After his / her death in 1936, the club's trophy for the perfect collegiate football participant was renamed the Heisman Trophy). Heisman immediately turned Tech's football program around going 8-1-1 throughout his first season. By 1908, Georgia alumni were possessing Tech's recruiting methods investigated, by the SIAA (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association). The particular accusations were unproven plus the SIAA afterwards ruled in favour of Tech. In the 16 seasons with Georgia Tech, Heisman led the Golden Tornado (as Tech was known) to 3 undefeated seasons, including a 32 game back again streak and a great important 23 - 6 victory over Georgia. Heisman also led Tech for the highest scoring soccer game ever played with a 222 - 0 win more than a completely outmanned Cumberland State in 1916 (too bad it wasn't Georgia! ).

By 1917, along with the onset of WWI, UGA disbanded its football program due to the fact many of its able bodies learners were recruited regarding the war. Considering that Atlanta was obviously a navy training ground from the time, Technical retained its guy students and continued its football software through the entire war. Any time UGA revived the football program throughout 1919, they happily proclaimed "UGA inside Argonne" and "TECH in Atlanta" on parade floats. Because a result, Technology severed all fitness ties with UGA, including cancelling many Georgia home game titles at Atlanta's Grants Field (UGA typically used Grant Discipline as their home field). It would not get until 1925, by mutual contract, that regular time of year competition would job application.

In 1932, Georgia and Georgia Technology would become two in the original tough luck members of typically the SEC, which UGA is still some sort of member. Tech even so, would leave the SEC in 1964 after coach Bobby Dodd began some sort of feud with Alabama's Bear Bryant (the results of a low-cost shot by a great Alabama player that ended position involving a Tech person, and Bryant's refusal to discipline typically the athlete). T here had been also concerns regarding scholarship allocations, suspect recruiting tactics plus student athlete treatment that led to be able to Tech's departure from the SEC. Yet , Dodd understood the significance of a rivalry and even would lead the Yellow Jackets to 8 consecutive victories (1946 - 1954) and outscore Georgia 176 - 39 inside those games. This kind of remains the greatest streak of either team in the particular rivalry.

Several many years later, Tech would attempt to re-enter the SEC but their application was refused, in large part due to the opposition of Georgia. Without league to compete in, Technology would found typically the Metro Conference, with regard to all its intercollegiate sports except football. Similar to Notre Dame, Tech might compete as a good independent for the particular next 15 many years, until eventually getting started with the ACC throughout 1979, the conference in which that still completes today.
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