AUDIO - GT Radio Broadcast of 1954 Football Games

Wow that is awesome! I can't believe you can get in trouble for putting up a radio broadcast from 1954.
 
coit said:
Wow that is awesome! I can't believe you can get in trouble for putting up a radio broadcast from 1954.
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I am going embed them with videos from that era. Likely something from "Solid White and Gold" or the "100 Years of Tech". Once I get that taken care of, I'll upload them to YouTube.

YouTube won't accept just audio.
 
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gtyellowjackets said:
I'm embarrassed to ask but who is the GT announcer? Thanks for the effort!
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Well, I listened to the ugag broadcast and several times it was said the announcer was Thad Horton. Research showed him as Al's first broadcast partner. Maybe Al was away to do a MBB broadcast?

Regardless, to the OP, thank you for doing this. FANTASTIC, All those great GT players names I first heard when I became a GT Fan. Morris, Fulcher, Brooks, Hair, Mitchell, Hunsinger. Thank you.
 
texstinger said:
Well, I listened to the ugag broadcast and several times it was said the announcer was Thad Horton. Research showed him as Al's first broadcast partner. Maybe Al was away to do a MBB broadcast?

Regardless, to the OP, thank you for doing this. FANTASTIC, All those great GT players names I first heard when I became a GT Fan. Morris, Fulcher, Brooks, Hair, Mitchell, Hunsinger. Thank you.
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So you are saying that Al would've done a basketball game instead of the UGA game in 1954? Or any year?
 
coit said:
So you are saying that Al would've done a basketball game instead of the UGA game in 1954? Or any year?
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I am saying, in response to another poster, that the announcer was Thad Horton. Put a question mark at the end of my other sentence, because IDK.

Only know that Al was not doing that game and, it would appear, that he had the "gig" at that time.

Maybe he had a family emergency, or was sick. IDK

Perhaps your research, or knowledge of that particular game broadcast, could give us a definitive answer?
 
texstinger said:
I am saying, in response to another poster, that the announcer was Thad Horton. Put a question mark at the end of my other sentence, because IDK.

Only know that Al was not doing that game and, it would appear, that he had the "gig" at that time.

Maybe he had a family emergency, or was sick. IDK

Perhaps your research, or knowledge of that particular game broadcast, could give us a definitive answer?
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Beats me. I didn't think he started doing Tech games that early.
 
Al doesn't seem to be on any of these. Although I would love to hear his early work (I started listening to him in the 70s) these recordings are great as they are. It is the closest thing you will find to a time machine.

Thad Horton sounds a little like Lindsay Nelson to me. I believe he was the sports director at WSB at one point and covered everything from Alban Barkley speaking at Emory Graduation to pro wrestling from Municipal Auditorium.

If you had asked me the chance that small snippets of Tech radio from the 50s existed, I would have said it was next to zero.....the thought there would be full games blows my mind.

Would love to know how and where you found these recordings.
 
SolJacket said:
Would love to know how and where you found these recordings.
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There is a gentleman in Alabama that is the son of a man who had season tickets for something like 60 years. His last name is Duling. His father was a EE and in to everything electronic. He's been sending me his fathers VHS collection to digitize, but there is also whole bunch of reel-to-reels as well. It took me a while to find a working reel-to-reel, but now that I have one there are about 50 more to do. Not all are football games though. As I come across more, I will upload. I am working on a way to put them on YouTube.
 
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