99 years ago today was the playing of the most lopsided game in history of college football. Between Georgia Tech and Cumberland College of Lebanon Tennessee. Cumberland had discontinued it's football program and was prepared to buy out of the game against GT but the GT administration refused to do so and even paid Cumberland $500 to make the trip.

So Cumberland amassed around 12-16 students, mostly a group of frat brothers of the baseball team manager, and made the trip down to Atlanta where GT ran up and down the field all day to the tune of 222-0. It seems that Cumberland had defeated the GT baseball team the year before 22-0 and the coaches at Gt accused Cumberland of using professional ball players as ringers in the game.

There was no chance that GT was going to allow Cumberland to back out of the game and coach Heisman went out of his way to run up the score in retribution of the baseball game. Also the writers in that era tended to give extra emphases in their voting to the teams who beat the other team by huge amounts.

One of the many stories that came out of this game was a Cumberland player who kept sneaking over to hide on the GT bench only to be ran off each time. Finally the coach asked why are you over here. His reply was that the coach had already put him in the game twice and if he goes back to his side he may get put in again.


But Cumberland did have one highlight during the game. They used a human pyramid to block one extra point.