http://www.myajc.com/news/sports/college...s-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.

And they get mad at 100-6 and 95-21...

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.

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.

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.

Better than a 0-0 tie. Those were very common back then.

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.

John Heisman didn't believe in mercy.

But Pop Warner knew how to stop him.

(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.

(10-07-2016 03:02 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  http://www.myajc.com/news/sports/college...s-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!

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doZzrsDJo-4


This does a good job of telling the story ...