Article on the Chick Graning incident ..

Didn't Bama do this to another GT player who couldn't play another snap because of it?
 
Thanks, that was a great way to be unproductive at work for 10 minutes. Good read.
 
I believe that incident was as important a factor as any in GT getting out of the SEC. Dodd was bitter about it, how the Bear handled it, how the SEC handled it. Bear was resentful towards Dodd for making such an ordeal about it. I think that is why Bear lied to Dodd and didn't show up to cast the deciding vote a couple of years later that forced us out of the conference...
 
Thanks for posting that, Beej. A painful read.

There is a lot I can say about that but I'll leave it to everyone to draw their own conclusions from the article which is the best account of the incident I have read so far.
 
I'm trying to picture this injury and have to assume they did not have any facial protection on the helmets at that time. Forget the suspension, there should have been criminal battery charges and jail time.
 
He says in the article that he had single facebar, but had adjusted it high since he had had prior broken noses.
 
TechPhi97 said:
What's most amazing is that I had to read that in the Concordia Sentinel. Maybe the AJC can hire that guy....better yet, he can work for Coley at the Macon newspaper.
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Well Furman Bisher could tell you all about it, but they let him go last year.
 
00Burdell said:
Thanks for posting that, Beej. A painful read.

There is a lot I can say about that but I'll leave it to everyone to draw their own conclusions from the article which is the best account of the incident I have read so far.
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It's happend a while ago so I'd be curious of your opinions. It was before my time.

But no question that time has shown the Bear to be a liar, a drunk, and a cheater. He would stoop to ANY level to win. Virtually moral-less.

No question a good coach. But no question he never would have reached the levels he did without cheating, dirty playing, etc...
 
Seems quite possible that we should have a rivalry status with Alabama that is near equal to that of UGA... dunno, but this stuff sounds intense.
 
My uncle relayed that story to me years ago. He was on the team when it happened. He was recruited by Bryant to play for Bama but decided to come to Tech instead. His main reason was Bryant wouldn't look him in the eyes when they shook hands. That always stuck with me.
 
It should also be a cautionary tale for those who lament the "good ole days" in college football and talk about the thuggery on the field today.

I think much of the difference between yesterday and today in football is that the media is not protective of certain figures and institutions.

If you lived in Alabama then you got an entirely different perspective. But at a higher level I also think the had a tendency to help maintain the myth of wholesome college football.
 
WreckTheRest said:
Seems quite possible that we should have a rivalry status with Alabama that is near equal to that of UGA... dunno, but this stuff sounds intense.
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That's why many old timers were more than slightly irritated when Curry left. It wasn't just that he left just as things seemed to be improving (after we suffered through his growing pains as a coach.) It was also who he left us to go coach.

Bama fans have such a high opinion of the Bear partly because they always got a whitewashed version of the story from local media.. He was above all criticism.
 
On a related note, I watched UT in the early 70's send two hit men to deliberately eliminate Brent Cunningham from the game at Tech. They succeeded. He was one of our kickoff returners and did not get the ball, yet these two uglies still zeroed in on him from the get go. They could have cared less about the return guy with the ball. I believe it was the opening kickoff.
 
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