Georgia at Georgia Tech

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 19, 1911, page 1

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  GEORGIA UNIVERSITY BEATS GEORGIA TECH Beautiful 45-Yard Run by Nc Whorter Gains Victory for Varsity. ATLANTA, Ca. November 1S:-Before the largest crowd ever seen at a foot ball game in this city, estimated at 5000, the Georgia Tech eleven today went down in defeat to their ancient enemy. the University Of Georgia, by score of ) to 0. The only score Of the game was made by McWhorter. Georgta’s right halfback, who made a touchdown after a beautiful 45-yard run through almost the entire Tech aggregation: The game was holly contested from the start, but Tech managed to keep the ball in Georgia’s territory throughout most of the game. Several times they threatened to score, but were unable to shove the pigskin across. Tech adopted line plunging tactics for short but steady gains, while Georgia depended largely on their speed. The forward pass was tried but little by either team, Tech getting away with one effort; Georgia failed twice. Because of the soft ground punting was resorted to by both teams. Patterson tor Tech and Powell for Georgia doing the best toe work for their elevens. FIRE. quent fumbling marred an otherwise good game.

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.

Officially, Georgia leads 73–⁠41–⁠5; as played, 69–⁠40–⁠5 in the 114 games on file; the official count covers all 119 meetings, counting the 105 since this game.