Clean Old-Fashioned Hate 2010
Game on. It’s that time of year. November 27 at 7:45 p.m. – nationally televised ESPN – the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets travel to Athens to face the Georgia Bulldogs in a rivalry coined Clean Old-Fashioned Hate.
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From Wikipedia
The game has been played 104 times according to Georgia Tech and only 102 times according to Georgia record books. Georgia discredits two games in 1943 and 1944 (both years in which Georgia Tech won) because many of their players went to fight in World War II, though official college football records include the games. The game has been played in either Athens or Atlanta alternating every year since 1928. Georgia Tech holds 4 national titles and Georgia holds 2 national titles for a total of 6 national titles. The two schools also have a total of 30 conference titles (16 for Tech, 14 for Georgia) between them, making the rivalry a battle between two historically prestigious programs.
The record between the two teams is 60 Georgia wins, 39 Georgia Tech wins, and 5 ties. Georgia Tech’s longest winning streak, and the longest in the series, was eight games from 1949–1956. Georgia’s longest winning streak in the series was seven straight games from 1991-1997 and again from 2001-2007. Although three Georgia Tech wins over Georgia in 1998, ’99, and ’00 were at one point vacated by the NCAA for using ineligible athletes giving Georgia a 17 game winning streak; but the victories were later given back as Georgia Tech was put on two years probation. Georgia won the most recent game in the series on November 28, 2009, with a score of 30-24. They now lead the series 60-39-5. The victor wins the Governor’s Cup.
The first time the two teams met on the football field was on November 4, 1893. The then Georgia School of Technology (Georgia Tech’s original name) Blacksmiths led by coaches Stanley E. “Stan” Borleske and Casey C. Finnegan traveled 70 miles (110 km) by train to play the Georgia team coached by Ernest Brown in Athens at Herty Field. The Blacksmiths defeated Georgia handily 28-6 on four scores by Leonard Wood, a thirty-three year old United States Army physician and future Medal of Honor recipient. During and after the game, disgruntled Georgia fans threw rocks and other debris at the Georgia Tech players and chased the victorious Blacksmiths back to their awaiting train.
| “ | At one time early in the last half of the game, a stone was hurled at one of the Tech players, striking him a cruel blow in the head… At another time, one of the Athenians drew a knife and threatened one of the Techs’ better players… The Techs were also poked and gouged with canes on plays toward the boundary lines… Some of the crowd had the privilege of the gridiron equally with the players. | ” |
The next day in the Atlanta Journal, an Athens journalist accused Tech of using “a heterogeneous collection of Atlanta residents – a United States Army surgeon, a medical student, a lawyer, and an insurance agent among them, with here and there a student of Georgia’s School of Technology thrown in to give the mixture a Technological flavor.” Hence, the sports rivalry was born.
In 1908, UGA attacked Tech’s recruitment tactics in football. UGA alumni incited a Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association investigation into Tech’s recruitment of a player UGA had recruited as well. The Georgia Alumni claimed that Tech had created a fraudulent scholarship fund, which they used to persuade the player to attend Tech rather than UGA. The SIAA ruled in favor of Tech but the 1908 game was cancelled that season due to bad blood between the rivals.
The only true break in the series dates back to 1917 and the United States entry into World War I. The two institutions felt that the rivalry had grown too intense, fueled by Georgia’s inflammatory accusations that Georgia Tech was cowardly because the school continued its football program during wartime while Georgia suspended its program for the football seasons of 1917 and 1918. The game renewed play again in 1925.
In 1932, Georgia Tech and Georgia were two of the original 13 charter members of the Southeastern Conference. Georgia Tech would continue its membership until 1964 after Tech Coach Bobby Dodd began a historic feud with Alabama Coach Bear Bryant. Georgia Tech left the SEC concerning the allocation of scholarships and student athlete treatment. Georgia Tech would later attempt re-entry but the re-entry was eventually voted down. The biggest opponent of Georgia Tech’s re-entry was Georgia. Lacking a league to compete within, Georgia Tech helped charter theMetro Conference in 1975 for all sports besides football (where it remained independent for 15 years).[23] Tech eventually joined the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1979.
The first known hostilities between the two schools trace back to 1891. The University of Georgia’s literary magazine declared the school’s colors to be “old gold, black, and crimson.” Dr. Charles H. Herty, the first UGA football coach, felt that old gold was too similar to yellow and that yellow “symbolized cowardice.” Also in 1891, a student vote chose old gold and white as Georgia Tech’s school colors. After the 1893 football game against Tech, Herty removed old gold as an official school color. Tech would first use old gold for their uniforms, as a proverbial slap in the face to UGA, in their first unofficial football game against Auburn in 1891.[5] Georgia Tech’s school colors would henceforth be old gold and white.
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