Oct 7 1916 Ga. Tech vs. Cumberland
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...the part that article didn't mention is the 22-0 baseball loss was because Cumberland had decided to give up sports, but this one student manager (the one mentioned in the article) thought if they beat Georgia Tech in baseball, they might reconsider. So the student manager went and got a team full of semi-pro and minor league ringers, who beat the snot out of Heisman's Tech squad.
Somehow, word got back to Heisman of what had happened, and that's why he forced them to play football and why he put the screws on them throughout the whole game.
There was a whole long article about it in the MSU/GT game program. I had plenty of spare time in the first half to read about it.
Somehow, word got back to Heisman of what had happened, and that's why he forced them to play football and why he put the screws on them throughout the whole game.
There was a whole long article about it in the MSU/GT game program. I had plenty of spare time in the first half to read about it.
Top-shelf.
I wiki'd the list of 100-point games in college football history. 99% of them were before WWII, obviously. One that stuck out was the last one that occured, in 1968. Houston defeated Tulsa 100-6. What year was it that they ran up the score on State? It was right around there. And what is it about Houston? I remember them running up the score on folks in the late 80's/early 90's, including trying an onside kick against SMU (ahead 95-21) in the first year SMU's program returned to the field after the death penalty. Best part of that story was that in 1992, when SMU's first-post death penalty team were all seniors, they beat the shat out of Houston for Homecoming.
I wiki'd the list of 100-point games in college football history. 99% of them were before WWII, obviously. One that stuck out was the last one that occured, in 1968. Houston defeated Tulsa 100-6. What year was it that they ran up the score on State? It was right around there. And what is it about Houston? I remember them running up the score on folks in the late 80's/early 90's, including trying an onside kick against SMU (ahead 95-21) in the first year SMU's program returned to the field after the death penalty. Best part of that story was that in 1992, when SMU's first-post death penalty team were all seniors, they beat the shat out of Houston for Homecoming.
I thought it was 74-0. Could be off.
I see your edit now. I have a vivid memory of Jack calling that game. Like most games, I studk with it most of the way through. Even though we were getting killed, each play was interesting for some reason.
What's up with a coach that runs up scores like that. Who was he and where did he come from? I don't mind a score getting run up; I like my football games to last sixty minutes. Ugly is the other side of beautiful.
Was that Tommy Pharr or did he come the next year? A few years down the road, Rocky Felker would lead us to a seven win regular season and a victory in the Sun Bowl. 26-24 good guys over UNC, I think. (This is memory)
I think it was in a horrible season one or two years earlier that we shocked Ole Miss 19-14. "19-14" was such a popular chant following that victory that I'm surprised that Bulldog fans don't still throw it out there sometimes.
When we upset a team (Aub i think) by that same score last year, I thought it might get soime ink. But 19-14 over the Rebels in that dark era is apparantly not even a memory anymore.
But football history is a discipline full of riches. So I suppose that some get buried over time.
I wish the great Dog 55 would start posting on this board again. I really miss his stuff.
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I see your edit now. I have a vivid memory of Jack calling that game. Like most games, I studk with it most of the way through. Even though we were getting killed, each play was interesting for some reason.
What's up with a coach that runs up scores like that. Who was he and where did he come from? I don't mind a score getting run up; I like my football games to last sixty minutes. Ugly is the other side of beautiful.
Was that Tommy Pharr or did he come the next year? A few years down the road, Rocky Felker would lead us to a seven win regular season and a victory in the Sun Bowl. 26-24 good guys over UNC, I think. (This is memory)
I think it was in a horrible season one or two years earlier that we shocked Ole Miss 19-14. "19-14" was such a popular chant following that victory that I'm surprised that Bulldog fans don't still throw it out there sometimes.
When we upset a team (Aub i think) by that same score last year, I thought it might get soime ink. But 19-14 over the Rebels in that dark era is apparantly not even a memory anymore.
But football history is a discipline full of riches. So I suppose that some get buried over time.
I wish the great Dog 55 would start posting on this board again. I really miss his stuff.
F
and had the Ron Cooper Special (shitting the bed in the first 8 minutes, down 28-0), I recall Jack mentioning the '69 game with them repeatedly. He said something about Art Briles like, "I'm pretty sure this young coach has a lot more sportsmanship than that Houston team did back then."