Auburn at Georgia Tech

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  The Birmingham age-herald, November 5, 1911, page 14

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  AUBURN DOWNS GEORGIA TECH AFTER FIERCE STRUGGLE Atlanta, November 4.--In a flercely contested game Georgia Tech went down in defeat before the Auburn : here today by q score of Il to 6. The Georgia team outplayed the Auburn Aggregation in three quarters of the game, the latter winning in the main { by accepting two lucky opportunities of scoring. Tho features of the game were an 80 yard run by Newell, quarterback or the Alabama team, for a touchdown, and 1o5 yard dash through clear field by Arnold of Auburn, for another five points. The first score was made in the opening quarter. Patterson of tho Georgia team. punted from the Tech 45 yard line to Newell The latter dart ed back and forth through D broken field of Tech men for the so yards and planted the bali between the goal posts, enabling Major to kick an easy goal. In the second quarter after Tech had rushed the ball through the Ala bama line and around right end to h1IIln u LOW Ol lllo ~AbOhti SNHA disastrous attempt was made at forward pass. Patterson hurled the s ball toward Sanches of Tech. When the oval was only few feet from its des- tfnation, Arnold, a sub end on the Au- burn team, Jumped into the air, TO- covered the ball and ran almost the entire length of the field for Auburr’s second touchdown. Major missed the goal. Techs score was made in tho last quarter. During the early part of the game they had made repeated gains over the Auburn line, but at critical moments either fumbled the ball or lost 1t by futile attempts at the for ward pass. In the last quarter they settled down to straight football of the old style, hammering the Auburn line and eircling the ends By this method they rushed the ball to the Auburn 10 yard line with the goal to gain in three downs. Using Patterson, Cook and lastly Goree, the latter was pushed over for touch down. Patterson kicked a difficult goal. Poor headwork and costly fumbles in handling punts and forward passes was largely responsible for the defeat of the Tech team. Tech kicked off to Auburn and after an interchange of punts Patterson for Tech got the ball and punted from Techs 45 yard line to Auburn’s 35 yard line Newell recovered the ball on the 90 yard line and made an 80 yard run through a broken field for q

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Auburn leads 42–⁠41–⁠3 in 86 meetings, counting the 77 since this game.