106 years ago

[Auld Phart]

On this day in history, Oct. 7, 1916, Georgia Tech football beats Cumberland 222-0

The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, led by legendary coach John Heisman, routed Cumberland College 222-0 in the most lopsided game in college football history Oct. 7, 1916.

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wonder how many stayed for the 2nd half?

 

[rightwinger]

Did they cover the spread?

 

[shockedcanadian]

Absurd running up of the score. I suppose this was long before the blue ribbon of participation award but still.

 

[beautress]

What a deal! A 222 point skunk game! It got me thinking about my Grandpa who was in France fighting out WWI before coming home and marrying grandma shortly thereafter.

October 7 1916 (Saturday)​

• Battle of Le Transloy – British forces captured the French commune of Le Sars from the Germans, while at the same time launched attacks on the Butte de Warlencourt burial mound northeast of the commune.[32]
• Battle of the Ancre Heights – German forces tried to push British troops off the south side of Schwaben Redoubt and reclaim all of their strategic defensive landmark lost prior in the Battle of Thiepval Ridge.[33]
• The football match between Georgia Tech and Cumberland College ended in a score of 222–0, the most one-sided game in American college football history.[34]
• The Taronga Zoo in Sydney was established, being the first major zoo designed with no cages for animals.[35]
• Born: Manuel Azcárate, Spanish politician, leader of the Communist Party of Spain, in Madrid (d. 1998); John Horne Burns, American writer, author of The Gallery and other novels, in Andover, Massachusetts (d. 1953); Walt Whitman Rostow, American economist, developed the Rostow's stages of growth for economics, National Security Adviser from 1966 to 1969, in New York City (d. 2003)
• Died: Philip Howell, British army officer, chief of staff for the British Fifth Army (killed in action) (b. 1877); Leigh Richmond Roose, Welsh rugby player, goalkeeper for the Wales national football team from 1900 to 1911, and several clubs in the English Football League from 1900 to 1912 (killed at the Battle of the Somme) (b. 1877)

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