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I found this today....great read for the old and young alike. Great names for both Tech and Georgia are scattered throughout it.

click on: Greatest Rivalry

A rivalry that should never be forgotton.
 
That was cool to read.. Thanks. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/woot.gif
 
Thanks SLJ!

Is it any wonder why we didn't have much of a problem retaining our share of the best prep athletes in Atlanta?

If Dan can keep up the effort on healthy public relations, we will be in great shape recruiting and fan base wise. Of course, those two run together.

I am wanting to believe that kids from this region wanting to play in the sec was a bit overblown, at least when it comes to Tech.
I have the feeling that Ga. Tech is on its way toward reestablishing itself as the pride and hometeam of Atlanta.
It is of course way too early to put a finger on why I think so, but it's there for me nonetheless.

It's not just wishful thinking either.
 
Oh, it had to be something else to be an Atlantan in them days! Back then, to be playing the Tech High-Boys High game at Ponce De Leon would be like taking the game to the Georgia Dome today.

Tickets were harder to come by than a badge for the Masters? Incredible.

Pocket: Oh it is not wistful thinking. Tech is on its way back!
 
State, I remember dad telling me he and others would hitch rides down from Ellijay in hopes of just getting a sniff of the stadium. Sometimes they were lucky other times not so lucky.
 
I heard the same kind of stories growing up.
Most of them were about my Mom and Dad not having a pot to tea in back in the early '60s, but having enough to have one luxury item: season tickets to Yellow Jacket Football, feeling damn lucky to have two seats in the south end zone horseshoe.

As the story goes, my dad was offered enough for the '62 Alabama game tickets to pay for the family car that month and then some. It was my Mom that told the hopeful buyer to move along and have a nice day.

With the way things are going now, I think Tech is on its way back as a true southern football school. I don't know how else to describe it.
I am biased, but college football needs a powerful Ga. Tech!
 
Funny you mention your daddy RM,

My Daddy used to tell how he would get in free just to sell pnuts in the stadium.

Many moons back but thru it he became an avid GT fan. As kids we didn't really know about UGA other than it was just some team for GT to beat along the way. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hugelaugh.gif
 
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Even Georgia's 1942 Rose Bowl team out-drew the Tech High Smithies vs. the Boys' High Purple Hurricanes only when it played the Yellow Jackets in Sanford Stadium and Alabama's Crimson Tide in Grant Field.

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If I'm reading this right, UGA played Bama at Grant Field. I guess things were much different back then.
 
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Even Georgia's 1942 Rose Bowl team out-drew the Tech High Smithies vs. the Boys' High Purple Hurricanes only when it played the Yellow Jackets in Sanford Stadium and Alabama's Crimson Tide in Grant Field.

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If I'm reading this right, UGA played Bama at Grant Field. I guess things were much different back then.

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As late as the late 50's Georgia was the home team a few times at Grant Field....as part of doubleheaders(Tech was playing in the other game) or as a single game at a neutral site. There has been 2 or 3 older posters who have stated seeing Georgia at Grant Field in such a manner.
 
I\"m Young, but I\"ve read alot...

prior to the 60's and 70's Athens was a minimum 2 hour drive from ATL on 78 or 29.

Since ATL was the hub of business in the Southeast, Tech and Grant Field had the largest stadium in the South. Remember, there were several rows of bleachers placed on the running track all the way around.

Grant Field didn't go over 60,000 total seating until 65-67 according to the book Story of Georgia Tech.

As such, GF would host double headers between Tech-Georgia and somebody else. Rumors are that it would be packed for the Tech game, and half full for Georgia.--(sound familiar??)

Anyway, much like Auburn, once the limited access freeways were built, it became infinitely easier to get to Athens. combined with the "malnutrition" of the GTAA from 75-83, and you have an entire generation of Tech alums, and 2 generations of native Atlantans that don't understand how and why Grant Field is the most special place in Southern Football.

Alabama may be the Glory program, but Grant Field was Southern Football's showcase...
 
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