Georgia at Georgia Tech

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, December 3, 1939, page 34

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  Georgia Tech 1opp|e! Georgia, 1870, in Bitter Clash Twice Checks Bulldogs Near Goal to Tie for Southeast luureIs ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. I’m a bruising combat that ran true to the form of this ancient gridiron rivalry, Georgia Techs Engineers rallied enough power in two often sive thrusts today to defeat Georgia’s Bulldogs 13 to 0, before a homecoming crowd of 10000. The victory gave the Engineers clean sweep of their six games in Southeastern Conference COM petition and a just claim to share of the 1899 championship of this Dixie league. In driving 60 and 40 yards for its two touchdowns and throwing up defense that halted two Georgia thrusts inside the 20-yard line in the first period, Georgia Tech overcame a “jinx” that had trailed the Engineers for the last three years which saw Georgia rise up from an underdog role to win once and tie twice. Scorer Leaves on Stretcher. Aside from its two touchdowns for its second victory over the neighboring foe in the last 10 years, Georgia Tech on two other occasions penetrated deep into scoring positon only to lose the ball each time when passes were intercepted. 1t was Techs first undefeated cam paign in the 7-year-old conference. After recovering a tumble at Georgia’s 40 near the end of the opening period, Georgia Tech marched to a score, Johnny Bosch, the soph speedster, leaving his interference and running of the weak side 9 yards for the touchdown. A short while later, Bosch was hurt and carried off the field on a stretcher. He suffered at least one and pos sibly three broken ribs. Midway the third quarter, Tech marched from Georgia’s 40 down to the Bulldog 9. After Fullback Howard Ector plunged for 2, Bobby Beers tried pass and it was in tercepted by Georgia’s Capt. Vassa Cate on the goal line and run out yards. Sophomore Cliff Kimsey punted out to the Bulldog 40 and Tech came right back to score its second touchdown. | Goree Clinches Victory. In that drive Beers passed once to end George Webb for 10 yards and then IL yards to the other flankman, Rob 1son, who was stopped at the Georgia 4. On the next play, Substitute Halfback Roy Goree plowed of guard for the score. Goree added the extra point

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  The Nome nugget, December 4, 1939, page 1 (results column)

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  Football Scores December 2 Stanford 14-Dartmouth 3 Navy 10-Army 0 Fordham 19-New York Uni versity Holy Cross 0-Boston College IA George Washington 13 - West 0 Detroit l0-Duquesne 10, Tie Ohio Wesleyan 7-Dayton 19 Georgia 0-Georgia Tech 13 Southern Methodist l4-Texas Christian ‘ St. Louis University 17-Wash ington University 21 Baylor l0-Rice ‘ Tulane 33-Louisiana State 20 Southern California g Wash ington ‘

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Officially, Georgia leads 73–⁠41–⁠5; as played, 69–⁠40–⁠5 in the 114 games on file; the official count covers all 119 meetings, counting the 85 since this game.