Word: teche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your write-up of the Duke-Georgia Tech game was very fair and interesting. With two or three slight inaccuracies in your article regarding Wallace Wade, the facts in general are according to the football "dope" in this section...
...people most upset by this split was Wallace Wade, who felt as if the split was brought about by the more Southern schools, such as Alabama, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia. . . . In fact, at the Conference banquet that night when official announcement of the split was made, my seat being near Wade, I heard him remark to the man on his left something to this effect-"They have put us with the damn amateurs. If I ever get the chance I will show them a few things." The first chance came in 1933, when he was offered...
...Rose Bowl practically in his grasp he met a much inferior but inspired team which defeated Duke 6-to-0. Again in 1935, he arrived in Atlanta with a so-called Rose Bowl team and again he went home defeated by the same score, 6-to-0. Both Georgia Tech scores were made on exactly the same play from almost the exact spot and at the same goal. In fact, the boys of the 1935 team telegraphed the captain of the 1933 team to this effect: "Pappy Jack Phillips, same score, same play, same spot...
...body of Andrew Carnegie were disinterred it would be found to have turned after that award to the creator of The Yellow Cloth. The dead steelmaster's fortune has scattered libraries throughout the land, has endowed Carnegie Tech and founded the Institute which judged this painting. Oh hail! to the libraries and Tech and "oh Hell!" to the Institute...
...Having monotonously kept their goal line uncrossed for five games before last week's, the University of Pittsburgh let Carnegie Tech cross it twice, but not often enough to win. Score: Pittsburgh 25, Carnegie Tech...