cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/53706472
110 years ago today, the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets beat the Cumberland College Bulldogs 222–0 in what remains the most lopsided college football game in US history
6 days ago by Arthur Besse to c/anniversaries
arctanthrope 6 points 6 days ago
how did Cumberland get into that situation? why did they agree to play a football game with a huge penalty for forfeit without having a football team?
RestrictedAccount 5 points 6 days ago
They canceled their football program in 1915 not thinking they would be held liable for not playing a game
Edit: 1915 not 2015
phdepressed 2 points 5 days ago
1915
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The headline does not tell about how mean spirited John Heisman was in insisting with this game be played.
Cumberland College faced a financial penalty, so big that the very existence of the school itself was in jeopardy if they forfeited, so they rounded up any students they could find to play.
Georgia Tech, the Ohio State of its day, played a game against a team whose players who did not know how to play football.
Cumberland players got annihilated - physically.
Remember this when you’re talking about the Heisman trophy. It honors a real asshole
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