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Alabama at Georgia Tech

Saturday, November 6, 1915

Georgia Tech beat Alabama 21–⁠7. It was their eighth meeting; after it, Georgia Tech led the series 5–⁠2–⁠1.

AwayAlabama6–⁠2 in 1915
7
HomeGeorgia Tech7–⁠0–⁠1 in 1915
21

FinalAttendance 5,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Birmingham age-herald's story: MERCER LOSES TO AUBURN TIGERS IN HARD FOUGHT GAME Alabama Defeated By Georgia Tech IN GREAT GAME, HOWARD AND OWENTON BATTLE TO ORA WI

    The Birmingham age-herald, Alabama, November 7, 1915, page 14

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    MERCER LOSES TO AUBURN TIGERS IN HARD FOUGHT GAME Alabama Defeated By Georgia Tech IN GREAT GAME, HOWARD AND OWENTON BATTLE TO ORA WI Baptists Outplay Opponents But Remarkable Fighting Spirit of Methodists Make Honors Even-Capps’ 20-Yard End Run Gives Method ssts Only Touchdown-Heavy Backs of Howard gss-Tsge Way to Touchdown -Owenton Holds On Two-Foot Wonderful Fighting Spirit of Both Teams Makes Game Best Ever Played Be- tween Two Colleges

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 73% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

The series

Every Alabama–Georgia Tech game

Alabama leads 28–⁠21–⁠3 in 52 meetings, counting the 44 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

Around this game

Alabama

Georgia Tech