Navy at Georgia Tech
Saturday, October 21, 1944 Share
No. 8 Georgia Tech beat No. 9 Navy 17–15. It was their fourth meeting; after it, the series stood even at 2–2.
FinalHigh 75°F, low 51°FAttendance 35,000
In the newspapers

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.
The series
Every Navy–Georgia Tech gameGeorgia Tech leads 16–9 in 25 meetings, counting the 21 since this game.
| 2001 | Georgia Tech 70, Navy 7 | |
| 2000 | Georgia Tech 40, Navy 13 | |
| 1999 | Georgia Tech 49, Navy 14 | |
| 1996 | Navy 36, Georgia Tech 26 | |
| 1981 | Navy 20, Georgia Tech 14 | |
| 1980 | Navy 19, Georgia Tech 8 |
Around this game
Navy
- Next gameat PennsylvaniaOct. 28, 1944
- SeasonNavy in 1944
- ProgramNavy history and records
Georgia Tech
- Next gamevs. Georgia Pre-FlightOct. 27, 1944
- SeasonGeorgia Tech in 1944
- ProgramGeorgia Tech history and records

