Alabama at Georgia Tech

Saturday, November 15, 1952

No. 2 Georgia Tech beat No. 12 Alabama 7–⁠3. It was their 34th meeting; after it, Alabama led the series 17–⁠14–⁠3.

Away12Alabama10–⁠2 in 1952
3
Home2Georgia Tech12–⁠0 in 1952
7

FinalHigh 71°F, low 50°FAttendance 38,063

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, November 17, 1952, page 19

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    ATLANTA, Nov. II. - Georgia Tech knows now just how ire ‘placeaole squat Leon Hardeman is The NaLion’s No. 2 team really missed is svar halfback Saturday when Alabama gave the Engineers the scare of the season by hold ing them to 7–⁠3 score. Sure we missed Hardeman. Coach Bobby Dodd said. 1--WE figure he always good for at least one touchdown a game, and he’s tops at picking up first-dowr yardage when we need it. Aside from nis running, the fact that he wasn’t in there blocking for US hurt our offense a lot” Hardeman. a 5-foot-6, 175pound junior from Lafayette. Ga, was the top rusher in the South eastern Conference until the Ala gama game with 704 yards. He was hurt in the Army game and didn’t even dress for the Alabama battle, but will be ready before Sugar Bow time. -. NARROW Goes Ahead. Boboy NARROW, the Tides ace halfback collected 81 yards against Tech to make his total 728 and ledge aheao of Hardeman. The game was primarily a bat tie of defensive units. Time ano again the Tech and Alabama defenses stalled deep drives.

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 77% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Alabama leads 28–⁠21–⁠3 in 52 meetings, counting the 18 since this game.

Recent meetings
1984Georgia Tech 16, Alabama 6
1983Alabama 20, Georgia Tech 7
1982Alabama 45, Georgia Tech 7
1981Georgia Tech 24, Alabama 21
1980Alabama 26, Georgia Tech 3
1979Alabama 30, Georgia Tech 6

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