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Duke at Georgia Tech

Saturday, October 29, 1955

Georgia Tech beat Duke 27–⁠0. It was their 23rd meeting; after it, Duke led the series 13–⁠9–⁠1.

AwayDuke7–⁠2–⁠1 in 1955
0
HomeGeorgia Tech9–⁠1–⁠1 in 1955
27

FinalHigh 69°F, low 49°FAttendance 40,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Sluggish Duke Downed By Georgia Tech, 20

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 30, 1955, page 60

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    Sluggish Duke Downed By Georgia Tech, 20 ATLANTA, Oct. 20 tF1.The flashing legs Of George Volkeri led Georgia Tech to two quick touchd0wns against q sluggish Duke football team today and the bowl-hopeful Engineers went yonf TO whip the Blue Devils, 27–⁠0 SVolkert. q l84-pound halfback from Nashville. Tenn. set ur Techs first score with an l8yard end sweep and scored the second ON q 22-yard wide run. Techs first score came after Ormand Anderson recovered q tumble by Dukes Dale Boyd at the Duke 81. Dick Mattison scored it from the 2. volkerts touchdown sprint and Wade Mitchell’s two conversions made It l4–⁠0 with only six minutes gone IN the FIRST quarter. Johnny Menger scored Techs third touchdown in the fourth period, racing 10 yards after In tercepting q pass thrown by Bob Murray. Little Jimmy Thompson got the final Tech touchdown ON G one yard sweep climaxing b So yard march. Without Quarterback Sonny Jurgensen, Duke could muster

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.

On the newsreel

  • GA. TECH ROLLS ONMore football at Atlanta, where the Tech Engineers engineer a 27-0 rout of the Duke Blue Devils. Long-runs and a tricky interception enliven the grid struggleUniversal Newsreel, October 31, 1955. Catalog record at the National Archives

Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Georgia Tech 65% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

The series

Every Duke–Georgia Tech game

Georgia Tech leads 57–⁠35–⁠1 in 93 meetings, counting the 70 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Georgia Tech 28, Duke 25
2025Georgia Tech 27, Duke 18
2024Georgia Tech 24, Duke 14
2022Georgia Tech 23, Duke 20
2021Georgia Tech 31, Duke 27
2020Georgia Tech 56, Duke 33

Around this game

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