Navy at Georgia Tech

Saturday, October 21, 1944

No. 8 Georgia Tech beat No. 9 Navy 17–⁠15. It was their fourth meeting; after it, the series stood even at 2–⁠2.

Away9Navy6–⁠3 in 1944
15
Home8Georgia Tech8–⁠3 in 1944
17

FinalHigh 75°F, low 51°FAttendance 35,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Penn Sees Navy Loss AS Bad Break for Il

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 24, 1944, page 10

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    Penn Sees Navy Loss AS Bad Break for Il PHILADELPHIA, Oct, 24.-The navy is coming here on the rebound, Coach George Munger is telling his Pennsylvania football squad. He told his players they aren’t to be “deceived’‘ by the 17–⁠15 score by which Georgia Tech defeated the Middies as the squad worked out for Saturdays sellout game. Munger has injury problems, also. He has moved freshman Joe Dickerson into the jinxed right guard spot, where Jack Doyle, Jack Sanft and Bob Hedburg have been injured in play First string Center Bob Mos tertz is suffering from a pulled tendon and may get into the game.

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 63% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Georgia Tech leads 16–⁠9 in 25 meetings, counting the 21 since this game.

Recent meetings
2001Georgia Tech 70, Navy 7
2000Georgia Tech 40, Navy 13
1999Georgia Tech 49, Navy 14
1996Navy 36, Georgia Tech 26
1981Navy 20, Georgia Tech 14
1980Navy 19, Georgia Tech 8

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