Secure in the knowledge that someone, somewhere else, had a much worse day...
From today's Quotes of the DayOn this day in 1915 Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland College in a football game with the record score of 222-0. It was the highest number of points ever scored by one team in collegiate football, the most lopsided score, and the fewest first downs. Cumberland was never able to make first down, and Georgia Tech scored
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in 1903 Tech's football program was in miserable shape. I don't remember who they were playing, but they were getting trounced. Some way or other a message came in to the Tech brass mid-game that Heisman had accepted. It got back to the cheerleading squad... who quickly assembled a sign.
All of a sudden, just as the other team was making some huge advance or other, the Tech fans went wild. The opposing fans were mystified: Why were the Tornado(*) faithful cheering?
Because the sign, put up along the fence facing the home stands (and thus where the visitors could not see it), said HEISMAN ACCEPTS (or something like that).
(*) Way before Tech's football team were the Yellow Jackets, they were the Golden Tornado.
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I think I still have my RAT hat somewhere, too...
Considering the recent additions to the ACC, Ga Tech fans are going to have to hold on to these memories to sustain us in the future.
The Ga Tech/Maryland football game is about to begin and so I leave you with a cheer that I remember fondly from my days with the Ramblin' Wreck:
e to the x, dy, dx e to the x, dx
Secant, tangent, cosine, sine
3.14159
square roots, cube roots, poisson's brackets
Disintegrate 'em, Yellow Jackets!
(Yes, we're just that nerdy.)
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Dif'rentials, Y!
Dif'rentials, X!
To hell with Differentials,
WE!
WANT!
SEX!
(I saw that one live many times as a frosh, Rat Hat (which I, too, still have in a box somewhere, faithfully labelled with scores) atop a head which still had hair...)
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