Alabama at Georgia Tech

• 

  The Birmingham age-herald, Alabama, October 13, 1912, page 15

  Read the text

  CRIMSON SQUAD DEFEATED BY TECH YELLOW JACKETS Atlanta, october 12-(Special. )-Georgia Tech, though outweighed about IS pounds to the man, defeated the Alabama university eleven Saturday afternoon at Tech flats by a score of 20 to 3. Although the day was unusually warm for football both teams played with snap and vigor, the game being one that was well worth going to see. Tech worked five forward passes successfully and to two of their touchdowns these passes can be directly attributed to. Alabama’s lone score was the result or drop kick to Right End Wilkinson from Techs 20 yard line. This came in the first quarter and was the initial count of the game. at The Jackets scored their first touch down in the third quarter, recovering the ball after a tumble on Alabama’s 40 yard line. Cook made one play around end for yards, then uncorked forward pass to Moore. who was on the goal line and scored touchdown Mcdonald kicked goal. In the fourth quarter Tech added two more touchdowns and kicked one goal. One of these touchdowns was the result of a forward pass and the other was the

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.

Alabama leads 28–⁠21–⁠3 in 52 meetings, counting the 46 since this game.