Word: techs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity wrestlers showed the benefit of a two-week rest since their season-opening win against Amherst last night, as they crushed a highly-touted though not favored M.I.T. squad, 29 to 2. The Crimson scored on two falls, four decisions, a forfeit and a draw that gave Tech its only points...
Last year, Pickett could afford to send in substitutes for his regular starters against the Engineers, and he won handily anyway. But tonight, the varsity will be facing a much improved team from Tech. However, Pickett is confident that he will repeat last year's performance. "We should have no trouble winning, but they have a pretty good team," he admitted...
...dike had already been breached many times. Even when Herman Talmadge was governor, Georgia Tech's 1953 team played a Notre Dame team which had Negroes...
...governor had a specific game in mind: Georgia Tech had contracted to play the University of Pittsburgh in New Orleans' Sugar Bowl on Jan. 2. Pitt has been selling its block of tickets on a desegregated basis, and Bobby Grier, a Pitt reserve fullback, is a Negro...
Many Southern leaders and editorialists scornfully denounced Griffin's action. George Harris, president of the Georgia Tech student body, sent a telegram to the Pitt student body, apologizing for Griffin's action: "We are looking forward to seeing your entire team and student body at the Sugar Bowl." A spokesman for the governor indicated that he was having some second thoughts about the Sugar Bowl game. One of Georgia Tech's regents predicted that the board would back Griffin and adopt for future seasons a rule against playing under unsegregated conditions. But the 1956 Sugar Bowl game...