Alabama at Georgia Tech

Saturday, November 17, 1928

Georgia Tech beat Alabama 33–⁠13. It was their 16th meeting; after it, Georgia Tech led the series 9–⁠5–⁠2.

AwayAlabama6–⁠3 in 1928
13
HomeGeorgia Tech10–⁠0 in 1928
33

FinalAttendance 26,000

In the newspapers

  • The Seward daily gateway's story: FOOTBALL SCORES

    Seward daily gateway, Alaska, November 19, 1928, page 8 (results column)

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    FOOTBALL SCORES Stanford 12, Washington o. So. California 27, Washington Stai IS. Idaho 21, Montana 6. Navy 58, Loyola 0. Minnesota 52, Haskell 0. Georgia Tech 33. Alabama 13 Carnegie Tech 27. Norte Dame ‘. Illinois 40, Chicago 0. Iowa State ‘, Kansas 0. Penn 34, Columbia ‘. Wisconsin 13, Iowa 0. Harvard 0, Holy Cross 0. jCarifornia 60, Nevada 0. Nebraska 0, Pittsburgh 0. Princeton 12, Yale 2.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Georgia Tech 71% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Alabama leads 28–⁠21–⁠3 in 52 meetings, counting the 36 since this game.

Recent meetings
1984Georgia Tech 16, Alabama 6
1983Alabama 20, Georgia Tech 7
1982Alabama 45, Georgia Tech 7
1981Georgia Tech 24, Alabama 21
1980Alabama 26, Georgia Tech 3
1979Alabama 30, Georgia Tech 6

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