Georgia Tech at Georgia

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  Evening star, December 1, 1940, page 43

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  Extra Points Decide As Bulldogs Beat Georgia Tech Costo’s Footwork Tips Scales in 2l-to-19 Traditional Joust bS tne hSsOclhteu PreeSs ATHENS, Ga, Nov. 30.-Tension tied the knot today in Sanford Sta. dium and Georgia’s Bulldogs cut the rope to shade Georgia Techs Yellow Jackets in their traditional dogfight, 81 to 19. The accurate toe of burly Leo Costa tipped the scales to the Bull dogs as homecoming day crowd of some 10000 watched Sophomore Frankie Sinkwich engineer Geor. gia to its first triumph over Geor. gia Tech since 1896. In the first three minutes Georgia Tech marched 73 yards to touchdown in nine plays and took what seemed commanding lead Of l3 to 0 when Aliens tumble was recovered at the Georgia 4, whence Ralph Plaster bored across to score. Georgia Parades 65 Yards. The Bulldogs took the ball at their IS and marched 65 yards for their first touchdown. Interference with a Georgia pass gave the Bulldogs the ball at the Tech II and JiR Todd shot touchdown pass to Carl Crate. Costa kicked a perfect place. ment. In the third period, Sinkwich started the maneuvers that sent the Bulldogs into the winning lead. In II plays, three of them passes by Sinkwich and six of them runs by the same hard-driving Bulldog, Georgia paraded IS yards again to score and Costa converted. The touchdown came on a l4-yard pass from Sinkwich to Lamar Davis. Center Tommy Witt intercepted one of Jimmy Bosch’s heaves and ran q to the Jacket q midway the third period. Sinkwich reeled of IL yards and then passed to Jimmy Skipworth for the score. Guard Will Burt booted the extra point. Georgia Tech Awakens. Just as Georgia staged its win ming uprising, Georgia Tech came to life in the fourth period, driving So yards for touchdown. The score came on l9-yard pass from Bosch TO End George Webb after the running and passing of Dick Bates had carried the ball into scoring position. Bosch missed the extra point. Trailing by two points as the end neared, Bosch opened a spectacular barrage of passes that carried from deep in Tech territory to the Bull dog 25. Two passes barely missed connecting for tally. Plaster’s field goal try fell short.

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  The Key West citizen. (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, Florida, December 2, 1940, page 3 (results column)

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  Francisco. Orv Mathews ran 88 yards for a touchdown on the initial kickoff and Immediately afterward dashed from the CEN ter of the field for another score after intercepting a pass. u. Of Oregon-Oregon State A homecoming crowd witness ed the University of OregOn’S WebfootS wallop their traditional rivals, Oregon States Beavers, 900, after dropping the previous four annual battles. Texas Tech New Mexico u. New Mexico University’s Lobos ended the Texas Techs Red Raiders unbeaten record with a close 1914 triumph at Albuquerque, N. NJ Raiders made a bid for the game in the final quarter after trailing Ole. Tech desired e victory to bolster its bowl game chances. Boston College Holy Cross Undefeated Boston College Eagles never got out of their own territory against Holy Cross Cru saders until the final quarter but that was enough. Until then the teams had played to a scoreless lie. Then the Eagles recovered a Cross tumble on the Crusaders five-yard line and marched over the goal for victory. ] Fordham-New York u. Fordham got revenge Saturday at New York Four years ago New York UniverSity’s VioletS defeated the Rams and thereby obliterated Fordham’s hopes of Bowl game. With the bid within their grasp again this year, the Rams took no chances as they smashed their way to a $50 vic tory. Georgia Georgia Tech Georgia and Georgia Tech renewed their traditional rivalry Saturday at Athens and when it was all over Techs Yellow JAG kets were vanquiShed by the Bulldogs, 21–⁠19. The feud began in 1898 and the victory Saturday was Georgia’S first over Tech since 1886. s. Tennessee–Va Vanderbilt Tennesseess Volunteers com pleted their third successive per feet season BY romping over Van derbilt’s Comnodores, 200, and thereby gaining undisputed cham pionShip of the Southeastern conference. Commodores’ last VIC tory over the Vols occurred in 1897. Other Scores Stanford Is, California Z; Texas Mines 40, New Mexico Aggies IS; Arizona II, Marquette Il; South ern California q, U.CL.A. u; Rice 81. Baylor u; Davidson %, The Citadel 6; Washington & Lee Z, Maryland Z.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, December 2, 1940, page 5 (results column)

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  s||||l2{sf|| The following are final scores oi football games played last. Sat- urday: Army o; Navy IA. Holy Cross 0; Boston College T. Fordham 26; New York Univer- sity 0. Duquesne IA Carnegie Tech T. Georgia Tech 19; Georgia 21 Pittsburgh 2; Duke 12. Washington and Lee T; Maryland ‘, tie. Texas Christian 0; Southern Methodist 16. Mississippi State 13; Alabama 0. Kansas State 0; Nebraska 20 Tennessee 20; Vanderbilt 0. Rice 21; Baylor 12. Stanford 13; California T. Washington State 9; Washington 8. Marquette IA; Arizona IT. Oregon 20; Oregon State 0. UCLA 12; Southern California 28. Oakland 13; Santa Clara 33. The Daily Alaska Empire has the largest paid circulation of any AL aska newspaper.

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.

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 84 since this game.