GT football trivia

Don't know, but thinking it was the one where the RW couldn't get thru.
A guess: Legion Field
 
I take the alteration was a one time occurrence. Maybe where we played the game was not supposed to be used as a football field/stadium.

Either way back at a place like Piedmont Park or more recently at the "nut" bowl played on a baseball field, or was that the Seattle Bowl?.
 
Sorry it took so long to get back. Bad storm. Lost power. Internet problems.

In the 1972 Liberty Bowl, protesters were expected at the player's gate to slow down Tech's players and harass them (especially the black players). The busses would have normally pulled up several feet from the gate and the players would have gotten off and walked thru a gate about 3 feet wide.

The night before the game, a gate that was wide enough for a bus to drive thru was installed further down from the player's gate. On game night the busses pulled in, saw that the protesters were there, and drove past them. The protesters were in shock when the new gates were swung open and the busses drove into the stadium. What the protesters didn't know was that policemen armed with automatic weapons were crouching in the aisles of the busses.
 
mikegt said:
Where'd you pull that from.
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I'll admit the details were a bit fuzzy after all these years. All I really remembered was that the fence had been altered. I called Bill Fulcher because I had other business with him and hadn't seen him in a couple of weeks. When I asked him about the fence, he refreshed my memory about the police and other things.
 
Was all this because McAshan was kicked off the team after not showing up for UGa cause he couldn't get enough tickets?

I don't remember this much controversy.
 
Yes, there was a lot that went on that was never made public. Bill Fulcher could write a book on the crazy things that occured. I wish he would.
 
Yea, after the ugag game, Jesse Jackson, Hosea Williams, and others got involved when it became obvious that Eddie would not be allowed to play in the bowl game either. It then changed from an NCAA rule problem to a "racial problem" and things went downhill from there. When the other black players voted to play (it was left up to them), Jesse, Hosea, etal were not happy. They then asked the players to wear black arm bands but I don't remember if they did or not.
 
They put the armbands on to satisfy the parasites and then took them off and threw them away before running onto the field. Greg Horne and others were a real study in leadership.
 
augustabuzz said:
They put the armbands on to satisfy the parasites and then took them off and threw them away before running onto the field. Greg Horne and others were a real study in leadership.
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There were only Greg Horne, Joe Harris and Pee Wee I think.
 
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