Georgia Tech Vs Georgia-An Old Fashioned Rivalry
Separated by 70 country miles of interstate between Atlanta and Athens Georgia, and innovated 100 times piecemeal, The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and the University of Georgia (UGA) have been rivals since 1893 in further than just football. Contending for everything in the state of Georgia, from implicit scholars and suckers to government subventions and academic recognition (Georgia Tech is an engineering exploration university while UGA is a liberal trades exploration university). Still, it's on the gridiron that this contest excels.
The dislike that these two seminaries have for each other presumably started right after the Civil War when it was decided that a new technological academy should be innovated. Also, UGA president Patrick Mell tried to move lawmakers that the new academy should be located by Georgia's main lot in Athens. despite his sweats, The Georgia Institute of Technology was established near the megacity limits of Atlanta in 1885.
It did not take long for the first conflict to begin only a many times latterly in 1891 over, of all effects, the academy colors. UGA's academy magazine declared the academy colors to be gold, black and sanguine. Georgia's football trainer felt that gold was too close to unheroic, which he felt symboled poltroonery. That same time still, the Tech pupil body suggested white and gold as the sanctioned academy colors. In their first ever football game against Auburn, Tech would use gold on their football uniforms, some felt as a poke in the face of Georgia. Two times latterly, after Tech defeated Georgia in their first football game, gold was ever removed from Georgia's academy colors.
That first cataclysmal game took place in Athens on November 4, 1893 with Georgia Tech, also known as the Blacksmiths, won by a score of 28-6. But it was who scored those 4 touchdowns that sparked the contest. Leonard Wood was a 33 time old US Army Physician who was officially registered as a Georgia Tech pupil a only a many days before the game. Still, being a full time pupil, he was eligible to play. This fact worried Georgia suckers since during and after the game they hurled jewels a debris at all the Tech players. The coming day an composition in the Atlanta Journal, by an Athens sports pen, mocked that Tech's football platoon was nothing further than a collection of Atlanta residers with a many scholars thrown in.
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