Georgia at Tulane
Saturday, September 27, 1952 Share
Georgia beat Tulane 21–16. It was their 16th meeting; after it, Georgia led the series 8–7–1.
FinalHigh 84°F, low 68°FAttendance 40,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, September 28, 1952, page 67
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Bulldogs Capitalize lon Green Wave Stars tumble 10 Win, 21–16 NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 81 Georgia picked up a Tulane fun BILE in the final seconds today and drove SO yards through the air for a touchdown that gave the Bull dogs a 21–16 Southeastern Conference football win over Tulane !. Tulane was riding high on a 16- / IA lead with less than three min utes remaining when Pete Glenn ent, Green Wave quarterback fumbled on his own 36. | Georgia’s zeke Bratowski took over from there and flicked the 15-yard game-winning pass to Conrad Manisera. Hero Becomes Goat. Until his tumble. Clement had lbeen the hero. He passed u yards for Tulane’s first touchdown punched over from the one-yard Iline for the second, booted conversion. and then added a fourth quarter field goal to give Tulane Ia 1914 lead. For a guy who couldn’t win 9 Irregular starting berth on Tulane. eleven that finished last in thu 1881 conference race, Clement wa. brilliant except for his one miscue Until the tumble. 10000 fans most of them Tulane partisans were ready to acclaim the rang! Quarterback the hero. He tossed t27 passes, completing Is for 18; 1yards. In the first period, Bratkowsk completed. three passes for q yards to End Harry Babcock dur ing a 60-yard march that put Georgia on the Tulane one Charley Madison bucked it ovel and Sam Mrvos converted Georgia into TO lead. tumble Aids Tulane. Tulane’s left tackle, Ed Petroski picked up a Georgia tumble by Bobby Dellinger on the Georgia is. Three Tulane running plays gained only three yards. and then on fourth down Clement passed Il yards to End Ed Bravo. The Bratkowski-Babc COM bination bounced right back and Georgia took a 14–6 halftime lead Tulane went ahead on a touch down and field goal and there were only three minutes left when Clement fumbled and Guard Frank Salerno recovered foI ! Georgia. Bratkowski connected with three passes to cover the 36 yards needed, the last going Is yards to Decarlo for the winning score. | Georgia – Z o 7–21 | Tulane -. Q .3-1t Georgia scoring: Touchdowns. Madison Dellinger Manisera. Conversions, Mrvos 8 Tulane scoring: Touchdowns. Bravo Clement. Conversion, Clement. Field goal | Clement.
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)
Tulane 52% to win. Georgia won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Georgia–Tulane gameGeorgia leads 14–10–1 in 25 meetings, counting the nine since this game.
| 1985 | Georgia 58, Tulane 3 | |
| 1972 | Tulane 24, Georgia 13 | |
| 1971 | Georgia 17, Tulane 7 | |
| 1970 | Tulane 17, Georgia 14 | |
| 1969 | Georgia 35, Tulane 0 | |
| 1957 | Georgia 13, Tulane 6 |
Around this game
Georgia
- Next gamevs. NC StateOct. 4, 1952
- SeasonGeorgia in 1952
- ProgramGeorgia history and records
Tulane
- Next gamevs. Santa ClaraOct. 4, 1952
- SeasonTulane in 1952
- ProgramTulane history and records

