1929 Rose Bowl - Wrong Way Roy

[coit]

This story popped up on my Facebook feed from someone unrelated to GT sports. Probably been shared before but fun to remember our place in history.

 

[The Jacket]

The pastor of a church I used to attend told this story once. I think he was using the "Go Roy, go" vs "No Roy, no" mix-up as a metaphor for misinterpreting God's signals. I planned to use it similarly in a recent legal defense, but your mom ended up dropping the charges before I had the chance.

Love the story, one of my favorite parts of Tech football history.

 

[gtgtgt1]

Did you know Roy @coit ?

 

[The Jacket]

Did you know Roy @coit ?

Roy couldn't have been older than 23 at the time. A little too young to have known coit.

 

[JJacket]

Roy couldn't have been older than 23 at the time. A little too young to have known coit.

I think coit invited me to that tailgate. I said I'd show up then skipped it.

 

[The Jacket]

I think coit invited me to that tailgate. I said I'd show up then skipped it.

 

[BigDanT]

I think coit invited me to that tailgate. I said I'd show up then skipped it.

Sting talk tailgates were lit back then what with the medicinal alcohol and legal cocaine.

 

[The Jacket]

Sting talk tailgates were lit back then what with the medicinal alcohol and legal cocaine.

Shout out to everyone who survived The Laudanum Tailgate before the Oglethorpe game.

 

[RamblinWreck27]

Sting talk tailgates were lit back then what with the medicinal alcohol and legal cocaine.

this absinthe and opium got me gone

 

[JJacket]

Sting talk tailgates were lit back then what with the medicinal alcohol and legal cocaine.

Amazing all anyone wanted was a Coca Cola to get the edge off

 

[JJacket]

this absinthe and opium got me gone

And the great arguments over when the concrete in the west stands would be fully cured.

 

[GTRules]

That's back when Coca Cola wasn't a mixer.

 

[coit]

Did you know Roy @coit ?

I gave him a bigcry after the game.

 

[daBuzz]

This thread is why I StingTalk. Well done, boys! Happy New Year!

 

[ramblinwise1]

They honored the surviving players of that team at a game in the early 70s and I met Peter Pund on the sidelines. We lost the game to Army.

 

[texstinger]

They honored the surviving players of that team at a game in the early 70s and I met Peter Pund on the sidelines. We lost the game to Army.

To be able to meet some of those guys would have been awesome !

Was that the game where they had Mr. Riegels as a guest?

 

[saxondawg]

When I was a kid I found a set of LPs in my grandmother's house, recordings of great moments in sports. It had the radio call on that play. I was about five, and my grandparents were huge Tech fans while my parents went to UGA. (My grandfather would have been at Tech just before '29). I was too stupid to understand anything about football and I jumped up and down taunting Grandmother, "Your team was in the Roy Riegels Wrong Way Run game!" Grandmother jumped up and down and said, "And we won the game because of it." Always gave as good as she got. She was pretty cool. This was a dumb story, wasn't it? I blame myself.

 

[00Burdell]

When I was a kid I found a set of LPs in my grandmother's house, recordings of great moments in sports. It had the radio call on that play. I was about five, and my grandparents were huge Tech fans while my parents went to UGA. (My grandfather would have been at Tech just before '29). I was too stupid to understand anything about football and I jumped up and down taunting Grandmother, "Your team was in the Roy Riegels Wrong Way Run game!" Grandmother jumped up and down and said, "And we won the game because of it." Always gave as good as she got. She was pretty cool. This was a dumb story, wasn't it? I blame myself.

CSB.

 

[the89vision]

my grandparents were huge Tech fans

This is like the state's ööööing motto.