Baylor vs. Georgia Tech

• 

  Evening star, January 2, 1952, page 46

  Read the text

  Quarterback skickine| Enables Georgia Tech ToWin’in Orange Bowl MIAMI, Fla. Jan. Pepper Rodgers, 19-year-old quarterback from Atlanta, used one of the old est scoring weapons in football yesterday to give his Georgia Tech team a 17–⁠14 decision over rugged Baylor in the Orange Bowl before “a record crowd of 65,837. Rodgers, understudy for the sparkling Darrell Crawford, kicked the extra point that tied the score for Tech in the final period and then added a field goal with less than three minutes left to play. With Crawford opposing Bay lor’s All-America Larry Isbell, the game quickly became q passing duel and a battle between hard. charging lines. Baylor scored first but Tech tied | it at TT In the opening period Baylor went ahead again in the second and held q LAT half-time edge. Heat Slows Both Teams. The score stood unchanged through a third period that saw both teams slowing down in the 79-degree heat. When Tech rolled to a touch. down with less than seven min. utes left. Rodgers conversion tiec the score at 14–⁠14 and paved the way for his game-winning f1ele goal. Pete Ferris, an alert 6-foot-1 end from Griffin. Ga, set up the play when. he intercepted one o1 Isbell’s passes on the midfielc stripe and scampered to the Bay lor nine. Crawford lost a hall yard and Leon Hardman picked up three. With fourth down and the bal. held on the 10. Rodgers sent il between the uprightS for thres points and the game. Forecasts Winning Kick. Rodgers had forecast his per. formance. Coach Bobby Dodd re. vealed that during practice il Miami, the 5-foot-10 175-pound. er told him: Coach. maybe I’ll kick .one that will win the game” Baylor scored first with six min utes and six seconds left in the opening period, climaxing a g. yard march. Tech struck back quickly, moving to a touchdown from the Baylor As. The Texans scored again six minutes after the second period opened with Jerry Coody smash ing over from the 4. Techs tying touchdown drive started on its own Al. A pass from Crawford to Bill Teas moved the ball to the Baylor 35. Buck Martin took Crawford’s pass folthe touchdown, the play covering seven yards. Rodgers converted to tie the count at 14-all. A moment later Ferris grabbed | (See ORANGE BOWL, Page C-2.]

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.

Georgia Tech leads 3–⁠1 in four meetings, counting the three since this game.