Florida at Georgia Tech

Saturday, November 21, 1936

Georgia Tech beat Florida 38–⁠14. It was their 14th meeting; after it, Georgia Tech led the series 10–⁠2–⁠2.

AwayFlorida4–⁠6 in 1936
14
HomeGeorgia Tech5–⁠5–⁠1 in 1936
38

FinalHigh 65°F, low 42°FAttendance 10,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: GEORGIA TECH ROMPS Mixes Passes and Running to Rout Florida, SO to IA.

    Evening star, November 22, 1936, page 32

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    GEORGIA TECH ROMPS Mixes Passes and Running to Rout Florida, SO to IA. ATLANTA. November 81 R.--Un. limbering its heavy artillery in a display of aerial and ground warfare, Georgia Techs Engineers routed the fighting Gators of Florida, SO to II. today. Little Scrappy Edwards and big Dutch Konemann, alternating at the left halfback assignment, were the big guns in the Engineer attack. Konemann raced q kickoff back Il yards to set the stage for Georgia Techs first touchdown and galloped 81 yards for another score. Edwards accounted for three touchdowns.

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 70% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Georgia Tech leads 24–⁠9–⁠6 in 39 meetings, counting the 25 since this game.

Recent meetings
1981Florida 27, Georgia Tech 6
1980Florida 45, Georgia Tech 12
1979Georgia Tech 7, Florida 7
1978Georgia Tech 17, Florida 13
1966Florida 27, Georgia Tech 12Orange Bowl
1963Georgia Tech 9, Florida 0

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