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100 Years Ago This Week, Georgia Tech Beat Cumberland, Tenn. 222-0 - DavidSt - 10-07-2016 03:02 PM
http://www.myajc.com/news/sports/college/on-100th-anniversary-of-tech-cumberland-8-things-t/nsmfs/
Yep, that is right. That is the real score. You thought some of these games like Portland State running up the score on North Texas last year.
RE: 100 Years Ago This Week, Georgia Tech Beat Cumberland, Tenn. 222-0 - C2__ - 10-07-2016 03:16 PM
And they get mad at 100-6 and 95-21...
RE: 100 Years Ago This Week, Georgia Tech Beat Cumberland, Tenn. 222-0 - nzmorange - 10-07-2016 03:44 PM
I feel like there is a thread on this topic every year.
But the irony is that nobody would know who Cumberland was but for this game.
RE: 100 Years Ago This Week, Georgia Tech Beat Cumberland, Tenn. 222-0 - C2__ - 10-07-2016 03:50 PM
That game is symbolic of the power Georgia Tech Swag has over all of us. If he wants, we all are like Cumberland to him.
RE: 100 Years Ago This Week, Georgia Tech Beat Cumberland, Tenn. 222-0 - DavidSt - 10-07-2016 04:24 PM
100 years ago today, there was no NCAA. NAIA, NJCAA, USCAA nor a NCCAA. Cumberland was in conferences with what we know as today as D1 schools. Many schools were like that. Even many NAIA schools. Baker Kansas was in the same conference with Kansas and Kansas State from 1890 to 1902. The first ever football game in Kansas was Baker beating Kansas.
Both Baker and Cumberland are now in NAIA.
RE: 100 Years Ago This Week, Georgia Tech Beat Cumberland, Tenn. 222-0 - C2__ - 10-07-2016 04:38 PM
Better than a 0-0 tie. Those were very common back then.
RE: 100 Years Ago This Week, Georgia Tech Beat Cumberland, Tenn. 222-0 - Cyniclone - 10-07-2016 04:46 PM
To the shock of nobody, the Cumberland athletic site does not commemorate the game, though their Twitter account retweeted ESPN's coverage. Imagine being the SID at Cumberland trying to do a press release off that game if it happened today?
Cumberland plays East Tennessee State at the end of the season, and while it won't be 222-0, it probably won't be pretty either.
And they changed their nickname from Bulldogs to Phoenix this year, ostensibly trying to rise from the 100-year-old ashes of that game. They could have name themselves after one of the menu items offered by Lebanon's biggest contribution to American culture, Cracker Barrel.
RE: 100 Years Ago This Week, Georgia Tech Beat Cumberland, Tenn. 222-0 - HarmonOliphantOberlanderDevine - 10-07-2016 08:43 PM
John Heisman didn't believe in mercy.
But Pop Warner knew how to stop him.
RE: 100 Years Ago This Week, Georgia Tech Beat Cumberland, Tenn. 222-0 - Kaplony - 10-07-2016 08:57 PM
(10-07-2016 08:43 PM)HarmonOliphantOberlanderDevine Wrote: John Heisman didn't believe in mercy.
But Pop Warner knew how to stop him.
The legend is the previous spring Cumberland used ringers to embarrass the GT baseball team and didn't even have a football team that fall. They notified GT they wanted to cancel the game and Heisman insisted they pay what essentially would be a buyout. They refused and put together a team at the last minute. GT was one of the best teams in the country at the time so that explains the result.
RE: 100 Years Ago This Week, Georgia Tech Beat Cumberland, Tenn. 222-0 - billybobby777 - 10-07-2016 09:07 PM
(10-07-2016 03:02 PM)DavidSt Wrote: http://www.myajc.com/news/sports/college/on-100th-anniversary-of-tech-cumberland-8-things-t/nsmfs/
Yep, that is right. That is the real score. You thought some of these games like Portland State running up the score on North Texas last year.
ESPN's documentary "222 for 100" is being shown this month on ESPN 8, The Ocho.
Cheers!
RE: 100 Years Ago This Week, Georgia Tech Beat Cumberland, Tenn. 222-0 - Dr. Isaly von Yinzer - 10-07-2016 09:39 PM
I don't think they can shut us out but with Pitt's woeful defense, 222 points may be an attainable goal for Georgia Tech's offense this weekend.
RE: 100 Years Ago This Week, Georgia Tech Beat Cumberland, Tenn. 222-0 - Pervis_Griffith - 10-07-2016 09:52 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doZzrsDJo-4
This does a good job of telling the story ...