Georgia Tech at Georgia
Saturday, November 28, 1942 Share
No. 5 Georgia beat No. 2 Georgia Tech 34–0. It was their 37th meeting; after it, Georgia led the series 15–12–5 in the games on file.
FinalHigh 54°F, low 23°FAttendance 45,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, November 29, 1942, page 1
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Boston College, Georgia Tech And Army Bow in Doy of Upsets Two football teams with perfeet records-Boston College and Georgia Tech-were defeated by humiliating scores yesterday, while Navy won a surprising 14–0 victory over Army at An napohs In a day of upsets mark ing the close of an unpredict. able season. Boston College, previously rated the Nations No. team, was swamped by Holy Cross, 55–12, while Georgia Tech was routed by Georgia, $40. The VIC tory earned Georgia bid to the Rose Bowl, and Georgia Tech was consoled in defeat by receiving a bid to meet Texas in the Cotton Bowl. The defeat of Tech and Boston College left Tulsa the lone undefeated major school In the country. Tulsa has accepted a bid to meet Tennessee in the Sugar Bowl. Tennessee wound UP It’s

The Daily Alaska empire, November 30, 1942, page 5
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GEORGIA TR0UN(ES GA. TECH Blare of California, Here We Come. Heard After 34 to 0 Game ATHENS, Ga. Nov. 30-Georgia heard the sweet music of a brass band blaring out California, Here We Come last Saturday afternoon, just a few minutes after the great football eleven thundered over the unbeaten Georgia Tech, 34 to o, before crowd of 45,000 bowling fans. All-American Frankie Sinkwich took the spotlight from the Techs freshman Clint Castleberry as Georgia’s line clamped down on the fleet-footed southpaw and held him to a net eight yards of rush. ing.
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.
On the newsreel
- WORLD OF SPORTSNAVY BEAT ARMY IN FOOTBALL 14-0 — GEORGIA BEATS GEORGIA TECH IN FOOTBALL 34-0
Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Georgia 59% to win. Georgia pulled the upset. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Georgia Tech–Georgia gameOfficially, 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 82 since this game.
| 2025 | Georgia 16, Georgia Tech 9 | |
| 2024 | Georgia 44, Georgia Tech 42 | |
| 2023 | Georgia 31, Georgia Tech 23 | |
| 2022 | Georgia 37, Georgia Tech 14 | |
| 2021 | Georgia 45, Georgia Tech 0 | |
| 2019 | Georgia 52, Georgia Tech 7 |
Around this game
Georgia Tech
- Next gamevs. TexasJan. 1, 1943, Cotton Bowl
- SeasonGeorgia Tech in 1942
- ProgramGeorgia Tech history and records
Georgia
- Next gamevs. UCLAJan. 1, 1943, Rose Bowl
- SeasonGeorgia in 1942
- ProgramGeorgia history and records
Ranked games that day
- Holy Cross 55, No. 1 Boston College 12
- No. 3 Ohio State 41, Iowa Pre-Flight 12
- Georgia Pre-Flight 35, No. 7 Alabama 19
- No. 8 Notre Dame 13, No. 14 USC 0
- No. 9 Michigan 28, Iowa 14
- No. 10 Tennessee 19, Vanderbilt 7
- No. 12 Santa Clara 21, Loyola Marymount 0
- No. 12 Stanford 28, Saint Mary’s (CA) Pre-Flight 13

