Duke at Georgia Tech

• 

  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 5, 1939, page 27

  Read the text

  ATLANTA, Nov. 4-Fickle Dame Fortune squared two 1899 football accounts today and tipped that So big g-point-after- touchdown to, Duke to give the Blue Devils a 7–⁠6 victory over Georgia Tech. Only last week the same Dame Fortune had made that point serve Tech nightly in q 7–⁠6 win over Auburn and a few weeks ago she showed Duke out of the unbeaten ranks with q 1914 heartbreaker when Pittsburgh got the nod. Bailey Kicks Vital Point. But today she was smiling before full house of 10000 fans when big Bill Bailey swung his foot after first-quarter Duke touchdown and the leather sailed true. But in the second period she was looking the other way when Roy Goree tried to knot the count. Duke struck swiftly when the entire center of the big Blue line smothered Johnny Bosch’s at tempted quick-kick on the third play Of the game and Mike KAf-

• 

  The Nome nugget, November 6, 1939, page 3 (results column)

  Read the text

  Football Scores November 4 Iowa 4-Purdue o Texas Aggies 21-Arkansas 0 Duke 7-Georgia Tech 6 Nebraska 13-MisSouri 27 Northwestern 14-MinneSota 2 Kentucky 7-Alabama ‘, tie Michigan 7-Illinois 16 Tennessee 20-Louisian State c Washington 9-Montana 0 Idaho 19-Utah State ? Oregon 38-Washington State 0 Southern California 19- Ore gen State 2 Santa Clara 27-Stanford ‘ UCLA 20-California Notre Dame 14-Army 0 Rice 7-Fordham 13 Navy 6-Penn 13 Harvard 6-Princeton 9 Columbia 7-Cornell 13 Pitt 13-Temple 7 Indiana 0-Ohio Etate 27 St. Marys 6-Dayton Univer- sity 6 San Francisco University IA Loyalo Los Angeles ‘ Texas Christian 0-Baylor 27

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.

Georgia Tech leads 57–⁠35–⁠1 in 93 meetings, counting the 86 since this game.