Oldest GT game attended?

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Who here has attended the oldest GT game?

I'm guessing someone might have attended games in the 40's, definitely 50's.
 
GTKyle said:
Who here has attended the oldest GT game?

I'm guessing someone might have attended games in the 40's, definitely 50's.
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Late 40's, don't remember which year exactly. What stood out to me back then was Flossy over at the Varsity jumping on our running board to get us a parking place and take our order.
Somewhere along 40's & 50's I remember the model airplane exhibitions at half time that thrilled a lot of folks.
GT winning football games and hearing the steam whistle blow was fantastic too.
We used to come in to town for the Freshman Shriner games too and for a kid like me back then, the whold shabang was thrilling.
 
Youve got me beat. I can remember some games (like the Rice game) when McAshan was qb. That's the earliest for me...
 
oldfoggy said:
Mid 40's (around 46 or 47) Tech vs Navy at Annapolis MD.
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Got me beat, brother.
Southern Methodist in 1959 was not my first game but the first I remember anything about. I was 8 years old. My dad was class of 1950 and a staunch attendee before all the kids started arriving. Saw many many Thanksgiving Day games too in the 1950's up until I matriculated in 1968.
 
I'm sure I've posted this a hunnerd times before.

Texas A&M. 1965. I was there. West Stands. Where were you?
 
I'm not positive....

but I think it was Duke in 1957, at least that's the first one I remember. I was 7 years old.

We lived in Raleigh and that game was in Durham.
 
Yukonwreck said:
Got me beat, brother.
Southern Methodist in 1959 was not my first game but the first I remember anything about. I was 8 years old. My dad was class of 1950 and a staunch attendee before all the kids started arriving. Saw many many Thanksgiving Day games too in the 1950's up until I matriculated in 1968.
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Southern Methodist in 1959 featured Dandy Don Meridith at QB. We won, but not before Dandy Don put on a dandy passing exhibition right before halftime.

Old Foggy has me beat. I didn't attend Tech games until the 50s.
 
1957 sat in a continuous rain in what was then the south end zone in the old horseshoe. Saw Don Meredith come to town as sophomore and Tech fought SMU to a scoreless draw. I was 15 and a sophomore in high school in Chattanooga. Came down with a church group consisting of a bunch of alumni and high school guys. Of that group I was the only student that ended up at Tech three years later....probably because I was the only one that lived just across the stateline in Georgia. The rest went to Tennessee colleges.
 
It is kind of funny how state lines alter people's way of thinking. On the one hand when there is a big river on it you understand the people on each side thinking differently about each other but when it is just arbitrary people's whole orientation is driven by something that may or may not have just been a whim.
 
My first game was a GT/ugag game under the lights at GF. My dad took me. I couldn't have more than 10 or 12. Kim King was slingin' 'em, John Sias was catchin' 'em, and Lenny Snow was runnin' 'em over.
 
Coaches and their families at Atlanta City Schools received tickets from Tech and sat on bleachers atop the Press Box, pre-west stands upper deck days. There were about six tickets per school and coaches shared them. Each wanted to see their alma mater. As an Auburn grad, my Dad took me to the '58 game with Auburn when I was three. I don't remember that the first game nearly as much as seeing LSU with Paul Dietzel play there a year later, I believe. It was cold and rainy and I kept looking for "Chinese bandits".
 
refrigeratormover said:
1982 Tech / Tenn at Grant Field.
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Not my first--but a damn good one Tech vs Tenn 1966. I was a Boy Scout usher. We won 6-3 and the rats threw oranges on the field. Bittersweet year==went 9-0 and ranked fourth or fifth, lost to Georgia and lost to Flarda in the Orange Bowl.
 
My first game was in 1966 vs. Tulane, west stands I'm told. However, I don't remember anything about the game since I was less than a year old --probably had a good nap on a nice fall afternoon.

First game I can somewhat remember would be 1970 vs. Navy, I do remember my dad and I sitting in the west stands. I somewhat remember McAshan playing QB. The one image that I can still draw up from my memory is that of the scoreboard as the game ended --Tech 30 Navy 8.

Nice thread GTK, enjoying reading everyone's story on their initial GT game.
 
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