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Georgia Tech	Georgia
Location
Atlanta	Athens Athens, Georgia Athens-Clarke County is a consolidated city–county in U.S. state of Georgia, in the northeastern part of the state, comprising the former City of Athens proper and Clarke County. The University of Georgia is located in this college town and is responsible for the initial growth of the city...
Students
20,487	33,458
School Colors
White White White is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light that stimulates all three types of color sensitive cone cells in the human eye in nearly equal amounts and with high brightness compared to the surroundings. A white visual stimulation will be void of hue and grayness.White light can be... & Gold Gold (color) Gold, also called golden, is one of a variety of orange-yellow color blends used to give the impression of the color of the element gold....	Red Red Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 630–740 nm. Longer wavelengths than this are called infrared , and cannot be seen by the naked eye... & Black Black Black is the color of objects that do not emit or reflect light in any part of the visible spectrum; they absorb all such frequencies of light...
Mascot
Buzz Buzz (mascot) Buzz is one of the two official mascots of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Buzz is usually represented as a stylized yellowjacket with yellow-and-black fur, white wings, a yellow head, and antennae. He is almost never drawn with six legs, but rather with arms, legs, hands and feet , like a...	Uga Uga (mascot) Uga is the name of a lineage of English Bulldogs owned by Frank W. "Sonny" Seiler, which have served as the mascot of the University of Georgia since 1956...
Football History
First Meeting	November 4, 1893
First Result	GT 28 - UGA 6
Latest Meeting	November 26, 2011
Latest Result	GT 17 - UGA 31
Next Meeting	November 24, 2012
Current Streak	UGA 3
Longest Streak	GT 8 (1949-1956)
Series Record	GT 39 - UGA 62 - 5 Tie
Men's Basketball
First Meeting	March 10, 1906
First Result	GT 27 - UGA 13
Last Meeting	December 7, 2010
Last Result	UGA 73 - GT 72
Series Record	GT 101 - UGA 86
Titles
Football National Titles Georgia Tech - 4 (1917, 1928, 1952, 1990) Georgia - 2 (1942, 1980) Football Conference Championships Georgia Tech - 16 (SIAA Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association was one of the first collegiate athletic conferences in the United States. Twenty-seven of the current Division I FBS football programs were members of this conference at some point, as were at least 19 other schools... : 1916, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1921; SoCon Southern Conference The Southern Conference is a Division I college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association . Southern Conference football teams compete in the Football Championship Subdivision . Member institutions are located in the states of Alabama, Georgia, North... : 1922, 1927, 1928; SEC Southeastern Conference The Southeastern Conference is an American college athletic conference that operates in the southeastern part of the United States. It is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama... : 1939, 1943, 1944, 1951, 1952; ACC Atlantic Coast Conference The Atlantic Coast Conference is a collegiate athletic league in the United States. Founded in 1953 in Greensboro, North Carolina, the ACC sanctions competition in twenty-five sports in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association for its twelve member universities... : 1990, 1998, 2009) Georgia - 14 (SIAA: 1896, 1920; SEC: 1942, 1946, 1959, 1966, 1968, 1976, 1980, 1981, 1982, 2002, 2005)

Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate is the nickname given to an American college football

College football

College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...

rivalry

College rivalry

Pairs of schools, colleges and universities, especially when they are close to each other either geographically or in their areas of specialization, often establish a college rivalry with each other over the years. This rivalry can extend to both academics and athletics, the latter being typically...

game played annually by the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football

The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team represents the Georgia Institute of Technology in collegiate level football. While the team is officially designated as the Yellow Jackets, it is also referred to as the Ramblin' Wreck. The Yellow Jackets are a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference...

team of the Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Institute of Technology

The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States...

and the Georgia Bulldogs football

Georgia Bulldogs football

The Georgia Bulldogs football team represents the University of Georgia in football. The Bulldogs are a member of the Southeastern Conference and are frequently a top-25 team. The University of Georgia has had a football team since 1892 and has an all-time record of 738–398–54...

team of the University of Georgia

University of Georgia

The University of Georgia is a public research university located in Athens, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1785, it is the oldest and largest of the state's institutions of higher learning and is one of multiple schools to claim the title of the oldest public university in the United States...

. The two Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...

universities are separated by 70 miles (112.7 km) and have been heated rivals since 1893. While the sports rivalry between the two institutions has traditionally focused on football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

, they also compete in a variety of other intercollegiate sports, as well as competing for government and private funding, potential students, and academic recognition within the state and nationally.

The Georgia Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Georgia Tech, Tech, The Institute or GT), is an engineering

Engineering

Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...

research university located in the state's capital and largest city, Atlanta. The University of Georgia (commonly referred to as Georgia or UGA) is located in Athens

Athens, Georgia

Athens-Clarke County is a consolidated city–county in U.S. state of Georgia, in the northeastern part of the state, comprising the former City of Athens proper and Clarke County. The University of Georgia is located in this college town and is responsible for the initial growth of the city...

, and is a liberal arts

Liberal arts

The term liberal arts refers to those subjects which in classical antiquity were considered essential for a free citizen to study. Grammar, Rhetoric and Logic were the core liberal arts. In medieval times these subjects were extended to include mathematics, geometry, music and astronomy...

research university. The academic and geographic divergence of the two institutions polarizes the state of Georgia into two large fan bases.

Establishment

Georgia Tech and Georgia were founded over 100 years apart. Georgia was founded on January 27, 1785, and Georgia Tech was founded on October 13, 1885. Patrick Hues Mell

Patrick Hues Mell

Patrick Hues Mell , was born in Walthourville, Georgia, served as the President of the Southern Baptist Convention in two terms from 1863–1871 and 1880–1887, as well as served as chancellor of the University of Georgia in Athens from 1878 until his resignation in 1888...

, the president of the University of Georgia at that time, was a firm believer that the new school should be located in Athens with UGA's main campus, like the Agricultural and Mechanical

Mechanical engineering

Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...

School. Despite Mell's arguments, the new school was located near what was then the northern city limits

City limits

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of Atlanta.

The first known hostilities between the two schools trace back to 1891. The University of Georgia's literary magazine declared the school's colors to be "old gold, black, and crimson

Crimson

Crimson is a strong, bright, deep red color. It is originally the color of the dye produced from a scale insect, Kermes vermilio, but the name is now also used as a generic term for those slightly bluish-red colors that are between red and rose; besides crimson itself, these colors include...

." Dr. Charles H. Herty

Charles Herty

Charles Holmes Herty, Sr. was an American academic, scientist and businessman. Serving in academia as a chemistry professor to begin his career, Herty concurrently promoted collegiate athletics including creating the first varsity football team at the University of Georgia...

, the first UGA football coach, felt that old gold was too similar to yellow

Yellow

Yellow is the color evoked by light that stimulates both the L and M cone cells of the retina about equally, with no significant stimulation of the S cone cells. Light with a wavelength of 570–590 nm is yellow, as is light with a suitable mixture of red and green...

and that yellow "symbolized cowardice." Also in 1891, a student vote chose old gold and white as Georgia Tech's school colors. After the 1893 football game against Tech, Herty removed old gold as an official school color. Tech would first use old gold for their uniforms, as a proverbial slap in the face to UGA, in their first unofficial football game against Auburn

Auburn Tigers football

Only Mohamed Amin Abughadir set the record with 1,890 yards in 1 season. He was the QB for Auburn in 1998.The Auburn Tigers football team represents Auburn University in college football as a member of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, competing in the Western Division of the...

in 1891. Georgia Tech's school colors would henceforth be old gold and white.

Wartime disruption

Fuel was added to the fire in 1919, when UGA mocked Tech's continuation of football during the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

' involvement in World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

. At the time, Tech was a military training ground and had a complete assembly of male students. Many schools, such as UGA, had lost the vast majority of their able-bodied male students to the war effort, forcing them to temporarily suspend football during the war. As a result, UGA did not play a football game from 1917 to 1918. When UGA renewed its program in 1919, the student body staged a parade, which mocked Tech's continuation of football during times of war. The parade featured a tank

Tank

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shaped float

Float (parade)

A float is a decorated platform, either built on a vehicle or towed behind one, which is a component of many festive parades, such as those of Mardi Gras in New Orleans, the Carnival of Viareggio, the Maltese Carnival, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the Key West Fantasy Fest parade, the...

emblazoned with the words "UGA IN ARGONNE

Forest of Argonne

The Forest of Argonne is a long strip of rocky mountain and wild woodland in north-eastern France.In 1792 Charles François Dumouriez outmaneuvered the invading forces of the Duke of Brunswick in the forest before the Battle of Valmy....

" followed by a yellow-clad donkey

Donkey

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and a sign that read "TECH IN ATLANTA." This act would lead directly to Tech cutting athletic ties with UGA and canceling several of UGA's home football games at Grant Field

Bobby Dodd Stadium

Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field is the football stadium located at the corner of North Avenue at Techwood Drive on the campus of Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, who completed the 2011 season with a loss to rival UGA...

(UGA commonly used Grant Field as its home field). Tech and UGA would not compete in athletics until the 1921 Southern Conference

Southern Conference

The Southern Conference is a Division I college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association . Southern Conference football teams compete in the Football Championship Subdivision . Member institutions are located in the states of Alabama, Georgia, North...

basketball tournament. Regular season competition would not renew until a 1925 agreement between the two institutions.

Fight songs

The fight songs, sung at every sporting event, have even been tailored to the rivalry. The "Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech

Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech

" Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech" is the fight song of the Georgia Institute of Technology, better known as Georgia Tech. The composition is based on "Son of a Gambolier", composed by Charles Ives in 1895, the lyrics of which are based on an old English and Scottish drinking song of the same...

" was first published in the Georgia Tech yearbook, The Blueprint
Blueprint (yearbook)
Blueprint is Georgia Tech's official student yearbook. It was established in 1908 and is the second oldest student organization on campus. Their staff meets Thursday nights at 7 pm in Room 137 of the Student Services Building.-History:...

, and was written following the first UGA football game in which UGA fans harassed the Georgia Tech players and fans. Hence the infamous chorus "To Hell with Georgia" was written. "Up With the White and Gold," published in 1929, featured the lyrics "Down with the red and black" and even "Drop the battle axe on Georgia's head." Georgia's fight song, "Glory, Glory" was arranged in 1909 and remains unchanged to this day. Officially, the end of the fight song is "G-E-O-R-G-I-A" but Georgia fans changed the lyrics to "To hell with Georgia Tech!" The song has even been used by GT against UGA.

Game results

Georgia victories are colored ██ red. Georgia Tech victories are colored ██ old gold. Ties are white.

Date	Location	Winner	Score
November 4, 1893	Athens, GA	Georgia Tech	28–6
October 23, 1897	Athens, GA	Georgia	28– 0
October 22, 1898	Athens, GA	Georgia	15–0
October 28, 1899	Athens, GA	Georgia	33–0
October 13, 1900	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	12–0
October 25, 1902	Atlanta, GA	Tie	0–0
October 24, 1903	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	38–0
November 12, 1904	Atlanta, GA	Georgia Tech	23–6
November 18, 1905	Atlanta, GA	Georgia Tech	46–0
November 10, 1906	Atlanta, GA	Georgia Tech	17–0
November 2, 1907	Atlanta, GA	Georgia Tech	10–6
November 20, 1909	Atlanta, GA	Georgia Tech	12–6
November 19, 1910	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	11–6
November 18, 1911	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	5–0
November 16, 1912	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	20–0
November 15, 1913	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	14–0
November 14, 1914	Atlanta, GA	Georgia Tech	7–0
November 13, 1915	Atlanta, GA	Tie	0–0
November 18, 1916	Athens, GA	Georgia Tech	21–0
November 14, 1925	Atlanta, GA	Georgia Tech	3–0
November 13, 1926	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	14–13
December 3, 1927	Atlanta, GA	Georgia Tech	12–0
December 8, 1928	Atlanta, GA	Georgia Tech	20–6
December 7, 1929	Athens, GA	Georgia	12–6
December 6, 1930	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	13–0
November 28, 1931	Athens, GA	Georgia	35–6
November 26, 1932	Atlanta, GA	Tie	0–0
November 25, 1933	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	7–6
December 1, 1934	Athens, GA	Georgia	7–0
November 30, 1935	Atlanta, GA	Georgia Tech	19–7
November 28, 1936	Athens, GA	Georgia	16–6
November 27, 1937	Atlanta, GA	Tie	6–6
November 26, 1938	Athens, GA	Tie	0–0
December 2, 1939	Atlanta, GA	Georgia Tech	13–0
November 30, 1940	Athens, GA	Georgia	21–19
November 29, 1941	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	21–0

Date	Location	Winner	Score
November 28, 1942	Athens, GA	Georgia	34–0
November 27, 1943	Atlanta, GA	Georgia Tech	48–0^A
December 2, 1944	Athens, GA	Georgia Tech	44–0^A
December 1, 1945	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	33–0
November 30, 1946	Athens, GA	Georgia	35–7
November 29, 1947	Atlanta, GA	Georgia Tech	7–0
November 27, 1948	Athens, GA	Georgia	21–13
November 26, 1949	Atlanta, GA	Georgia Tech	7–6
December 2, 1950	Athens, GA	Georgia Tech	7–0
December 1, 1951	Atlanta, GA	Georgia Tech	48–6
November 29, 1952	Athens, GA	Georgia Tech	23–9
November 28, 1953	Atlanta, GA	Georgia Tech	28–12
November 27, 1954	Athens, GA	Georgia Tech	7–3
November 26, 1955	Atlanta, GA	Georgia Tech	21–3
December 1, 1956	Athens, GA	Georgia Tech	35–0
November 30, 1957	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	7–0
November 30, 1958	Athens, GA	Georgia	16–3
November 28, 1959	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	21–14
November 26, 1960	Athens, GA	Georgia	7–6
December 2, 1961	Atlanta, GA	Georgia Tech	22–7
December 1, 1962	Athens, GA	Georgia Tech	37–6
November 30, 1963	Atlanta, GA	Georgia Tech	14–3
November 28, 1964	Athens, GA	Georgia	7–0
November 27, 1965	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	17–7
November 26, 1966	Athens, GA	Georgia	23–14
November 25, 1967	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	21–14
November 30, 1968	Athens, GA	Georgia	47–8
November 29, 1969	Atlanta, GA	Georgia Tech	6–0
November 28, 1970	Athens, GA	Georgia Tech	17–7
November 25, 1971	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	28–24
December 2, 1972	Athens, GA	Georgia	27–2
December 1, 1973	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	10–3
November 30, 1974	Athens, GA	Georgia Tech	34–14
November 27, 1975	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	42–26
November 27, 1976	Athens, GA	Georgia	13–10

Date	Location	Winner	Score
November 26, 1977	Atlanta, GA	Georgia Tech	16–7
December 2, 1978	Athens, GA	Georgia	29–28
November 24, 1979	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	16–3
November 29, 1980	Athens, GA	Georgia	38–20
December 5, 1981	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	44–7
November 27, 1982	Athens, GA	Georgia	38–18
November 26, 1983	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	27–24
December 1, 1984	Athens, GA	Georgia Tech	35–18
November 30, 1985	Atlanta, GA	Georgia Tech	20–16
November 29, 1986	Athens, GA	Georgia	31–24
November 28, 1987	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	30–16
November 26, 1988	Athens, GA	Georgia	24–3
December 2, 1989	Atlanta, GA	Georgia Tech	33–22
December 1, 1990	Athens, GA	Georgia Tech	40–23
November 30, 1991	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	18–15
November 28, 1992	Athens, GA	Georgia	31–17
November 25, 1993	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	43–10
November 25, 1994	Athens, GA	Georgia	48–10
November 23, 1995	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	18–17
November 30, 1996	Athens, GA	Georgia	19–10
November 29, 1997	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	27–24
November 28, 1998	Athens, GA	Georgia Tech	21–19
November 27, 1999	Atlanta, GA	Georgia Tech	51–48
November 25, 2000	Athens, GA	Georgia Tech	27–15
November 24, 2001	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	31–17
November 30, 2002	Athens, GA	Georgia	51–7
November 29, 2003	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	34–17
November 27, 2004	Athens, GA	Georgia	19–13
November 26, 2005	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	14–7
November 25, 2006	Athens, GA	Georgia	15–12
November 24, 2007	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	31–17
November 29, 2008	Athens, GA	Georgia Tech	45–42
November 28, 2009	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	30–24
November 27, 2010	Athens, GA	Georgia	42–34
November 26, 2011	Atlanta, GA	Georgia	31–17

^A The University of Georgia's athletic association lists the Bulldogs' 1943 and 1944 losses, but does not include them in its calculation of the series win-loss record; Georgia Tech's athletic association includes the Yellow Jackets' 1943 and 1944 wins in the series record.

Series record sources: 2010 Georgia Tech Football, 2011 Georgia Football Media Guide, and College Football Data Warehouse.

Traditions

It is common for Georgia fans to refer to the Georgia Institute of Technology as Georgia Tech University, GTU, or North Avenue Trade School. The "GTU" nickname is derived from the common mistitle given to Georgia Tech in media outlets. Also, since Georgia Tech is an engineering school, Georgia fans often refer to Tech fans as nerd

Nerd

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s, dork

Dork

Dork may refer to:* USA pejorative slang for a quirky, silly and/or stupid, socially inept person, or one who is out of touch with contemporary trends...

s, Techies, or Gnats

Gnats

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. The school's campus and Grant Field front North Avenue in downtown Atlanta, giving rise to the "Trade School" nickname.

A common rallying cry for students of Georgia Tech is the question "What's the good word?" often repeated three times (the answer being "To Hell with Georgia!") and, on the fourth time, will then ask "How 'bout them Dawgs?" ("Piss on 'em!") Tech students have also created an unofficial fight song entitled '"To Hell With Georgia", which is set to tune of The Battle Hymn of the Republic

The Battle Hymn of the Republic

"The Battle Hymn of the Republic" is a hymn by American writer Julia Ward Howe using the music from the song "John Brown's Body". Howe's more famous lyrics were written in November 1861 and first published in The Atlantic Monthly in February 1862. It became popular during the American Civil War...

and refers to UGA as "the cesspool of the South."

The school newspapers of the two institutions often mock their rival institution. The Red and Black
The Red and Black
The Red & Black is an independent daily student newspaper of the University of Georgia.-History:Students published its first issue in tabloid format on November 24, 1893, from offices in the Academic Building on North Campus....

, Georgia's newspaper, usually has several jokes and articles mocking Georgia Tech the week before the football

American football

game.The Technique
The Technique
The Technique, also known as the "Nique," is the official student newspaper of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia and has referred to itself as "the South's liveliest college newspaper" since 1945...

, Georgia Tech's newspaper, prints a special edition mocking The Red and Black, and commonly refers to its rival as "The University (sic

Sic

Sic—generally inside square brackets, [sic], and occasionally parentheses, —when added just after a quote or reprinted text, indicates the passage appears exactly as in the original source...

) of Georgia." The special edition features several articles of parody and humor based on fictitious happenings at the University of Georgia, and is known as "To Hell With Georgia," after the school's popular cheer. On years where the schools play their match at UGA's Sanford Stadium

Sanford Stadium

Sanford Stadium is the on-campus playing venue for football at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, United States. The 92,746-seat stadium is the seventh largest stadium in the NCAA. Architecturally, the stadium is known for the fact that its numerous expansions over the years have been...

, Technique staff distribute the issue across UGA's campus.

UGA students traditionally ring the school's Chapel Bell until midnight following any home football win. However, when UGA beats Tech, the bell rings all night long. Tech has a similar tradition with its whistle. UGA's Chapel Bell and Georgia Tech's Ramblin' Wreck have been rumored to have been stolen numerous times by their respective rival before, after, or even during major sporting events between the two schools. The bulldog statue in front of UGA's Memorial Hall

Memorial Hall (University of Georgia)

War Memorial Hall is a landmark building on the campus of the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, United States....

was stolen by Tech students at one point. The culprits put the UGA and Tech police on a scavenger hunt to find the missing bulldog. Many fans of the respective institutions refuse to even partake in clothing, food, or other materials of their rival's school colors

School colors

School colors are the colors chosen by a school to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification. Most schools have two colors, which are usually chosen to avoid conflicts with other schools with which the school competes in sports and other activities...

. Examples include Georgia fans refusing to eat mustard

Mustard (condiment)

Mustard is a condiment made from the seeds of a mustard plant...

or Georgia Tech fans refusing to use red pens

Ballpoint pen

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Sports

**Coaching Matchups**
Sport	GT Coach	Record vs. UGA	UGA Coach	Record vs. GT
Baseball Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...	Danny Hall Danny Hall (baseball) ]Danny Hall is the current head baseball coach of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. He has been the head coach of Georgia Tech since 1994. Before coming to Tech, he held positions at Miami , Michigan, and Kent State. From 1978 to 1979, he coached at Miami , where he compiled a 69-26 record...	(34-27)	David Perno David Perno David Perno is the head coach of the baseball team at the University of Georgia. Now in his ninth season as their head coach, he has compiled a record of 300-230-1 . He has led the program to five NCAA tournaments, including 3 of the last 8 College World Series. He was named the 2004 Coach of the...	(15-15)
Basketball Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules... (M)	Brian Gregory	(0-0)	Mark Fox Mark Fox Mark Fox is a public policy analyst and journalist.He is currently Chief Executive of the BSA - The Business Services Association, London, UK.-Early life and education:...	(2-0)
Basketball (W)	MaChelle Joseph MaChelle Joseph MaChelle Joseph is the women's basketball coach for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets women's basketball team.-References:...	(2-3)	Andy Landers Andy Landers - External links :* * - Notes :...	(27-3)
Football American football American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...	Paul Johnson Paul Johnson (American football coach) Paul Johnson is an American football coach. He is currently the head coach at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a position he has held since the 2008 season. Previously, Johnson served as the head coach at Georgia Southern University from 1997 to 2001 and at the United States Naval Academy...	(1-3)	Mark Richt Mark Richt Mark Richt is the head coach of the University of Georgia Bulldogs football team. His previous affiliations include fourteen years at Florida State University, where he served as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, and one year as offensive coordinator at East Carolina University.-Early...	(10-1)
Softball Softball Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...	Sharon Perkins	(4-2)	Lu Harris	(10-7)
Volleyball Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...	Tonya Johnson	(1-0)	Joel McCartney	(0-3)

Football

The game has been played 105 times according to Georgia Tech and only 103 times according to Georgia record books. Georgia discredits two games in 1943 and 1944 (both years in which Georgia Tech won) because many of their players went to fight in World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

, though official college football records include the games. The game has been played in either Athens or Atlanta alternating every year since 1928. Georgia Tech holds 4 national titles and Georgia holds 2 national titles for a total of 6 national titles. The two schools also have a total of 30 conference titles (16 for Tech, 14 for Georgia) between them, making the rivalry a battle between two historically prestigious programs.

The record between the two teams is 61 Georgia wins, 39 Georgia Tech wins, and 5 ties. Georgia Tech's longest winning streak, and the longest in the series, was eight games from 1949–1956. Georgia's longest winning streak in the series was seven straight games from 1991-1997 and again from 2001-2007. Georgia won the most recent game in the series on November 27, 2010, with a score of 42-34. They now lead the series 61-39-5. The victor wins the Governor's Cup.

The first time the two teams met on the football field was on November 4, 1893. The then Georgia School of Technology (Georgia Tech's original name) Blacksmiths led by coaches Stanley E. "Stan" Borleske and Casey C. Finnegan traveled 70 miles (112.7 km) by train to play the Georgia team coached by Ernest Brown

Georgia Bulldogs football under Ernest Brown

The 1893 Georgia Bulldogs football team completed the season with a 2-2-1 record. 1893 saw the Bulldogs play their first games against Georgia Tech, losing 6-28, , losing 10-35, and , winning 22-8. The rivalries with Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt continue to the present day, while the last game...

in Athens at Herty Field

Herty Field

Herty Field, also known as Alumni Athletic Field, was the original on-campus playing venue for football and baseball at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. It opened in the Fall of 1891 and hosting the first UGA home football game against Mercer University on January 30, 1892.Before its...

. The Blacksmiths defeated Georgia handily 28-6 on four scores by Leonard Wood

Leonard Wood

Leonard Wood was a physician who served as the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, Military Governor of Cuba and Governor General of the Philippines. Early in his military career, he received the Medal of Honor. Wood also holds officer service #2 in the Regular Army...

, a thirty-three year old United States Army

United States Army

The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...

physician and future Medal of Honor

Medal of Honor

The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed by the President, in the name of Congress, upon members of the United States Armed Forces who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her...

recipient. During and after the game, disgruntled Georgia fans threw rocks and other debris at the Georgia Tech players and chased the victorious Blacksmiths back to their awaiting train.

The next day in the Atlanta Journal, an Athens journalist accused Tech of using "a heterogeneous collection of Atlanta residents - a United States Army surgeon, a medical student, a lawyer, and an insurance agent among them, with here and there a student of Georgia's School of Technology thrown in to give the mixture a Technological flavor." Hence, the sports rivalry was born.

In 1908, UGA attacked Tech's recruitment tactics in football. UGA alumni incited a Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association

Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association

The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association was one of the first collegiate athletic conferences in the United States. Twenty-seven of the current Division I FBS football programs were members of this conference at some point, as were at least 19 other schools...

investigation into Tech's recruitment of a player UGA had recruited as well. The Georgia Alumni claimed that Tech had created a fraudulent scholarship fund, which they used to persuade the player to attend Tech rather than UGA. The SIAA ruled in favor of Tech but the 1908 game was cancelled that season due to bad blood between the rivals.

The only true break in the series dates back to 1917 and the United States

United States

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entry into World War I

World War I

. The two institutions felt that the rivalry had grown too intense, fueled by Georgia's inflammatory accusations that Georgia Tech was cowardly because the school continued its football program during wartime while Georgia suspended its program for the football seasons of 1917 and 1918. The game renewed play again in 1925.

In 1932, Georgia Tech and Georgia were two of the original 13 charter members of the Southeastern Conference

Southeastern Conference

The Southeastern Conference is an American college athletic conference that operates in the southeastern part of the United States. It is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama...

. Georgia Tech would continue its membership until 1964 after Tech Coach Bobby Dodd

Bobby Dodd

Robert Lee Dodd was an American college football coach at Georgia Tech. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame as a player and coach, something that only three people have accomplished....

began a historic feud with Alabama

University of Alabama

The University of Alabama is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States....

Coach Bear Bryant

Bear Bryant

Paul William "Bear" Bryant was an American college football player and coach. He was best known as the longtime head coach of the University of Alabama football team. During his 25-year tenure as Alabama's head coach, he amassed six national championships and thirteen conference championships...

. Georgia Tech left the SEC concerning the allocation of scholarships and student athlete treatment. Georgia Tech would later attempt re-entry but the re-entry was eventually voted down. The biggest opponent of Georgia Tech's re-entry was Georgia. Lacking a league to compete within, Georgia Tech helped charter the Metro Conference

Metro Conference

The Metropolitan Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, popularly known as the Metro Conference, was an NCAA Division I athletics conference, so named because all of its charter members were in urban metropolitan areas in, or at least on the fringes of, the Southern United States...

in 1975 for all sports besides football (where it remained independent for 15 years). Tech eventually joined the Atlantic Coast Conference

Atlantic Coast Conference

The Atlantic Coast Conference is a collegiate athletic league in the United States. Founded in 1953 in Greensboro, North Carolina, the ACC sanctions competition in twenty-five sports in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association for its twelve member universities...

in 1979.

Basketball

The Georgia Tech and Georgia basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

rivalry can be just as heated as its football counterpart. The two teams have played 186 times with Georgia Tech holding 101 wins over Georgia's 86 wins. The first game between the two basketball teams was on March 10, 1906. Georgia Tech won the game 27-13 in Athens. The longest winning streak by UGA was 7 games, which occurred twice from 1909–1921 and from 1980–1984. Georgia Tech accumulated a 10 game winning streak, its longest over UGA, from 1958–1961. The series is dominated by the home team. The home record since 1906 is 111-53 (67.7%) while 23 games in the series have been played on neutral courts.

The Georgia Tech vs. Georgia game was played in the Omni Coliseum

Omni Coliseum

The Omni Coliseum, usually called The Omni, from the Latin for "all," or "every," was an indoor arena, located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Completed in 1972, the arena seated 16,378, for basketball and 15,278, for ice hockey...

for 14 years beginning in 1981 and ending in 1994. The series in the Omni favored the Yellow Jackets with an 8-6 record. The neutrality of the Omni, because of its proximity to Georgia Tech, came into question by the UGA athletic department in 1993 so the series was renewed as an alternating home court event. The home team has won every game but two since the home court advantage was reinstated, Georgia won both road games (2000, 2010). Since 1994, the Tech-UGA basketball game has had the highest average attendance for both teams at their respective stadiums.

9 other games were played on neutral courts. These games occurred in the SIC Tournament

Southern Conference

(1921 & 1923), SEC tournament (1934, 1945, 1946, & 1948), and the Gator Bowl

Gator Bowl

The Gator Bowl is an annual college football bowl game played at EverBank Field in Jacksonville, Florida. Held continuously since 1946, it is the sixth oldest college bowl, as well as the first one ever televised nationally...

Tournament (1952, 1953, & 1960). Tech holds a 5-4 record in these tournaments over Georgia.

Georgia Tech has not won a Men's basketball game at Georgia since 1976.

Baseball

April 16, 1898, the first baseball game between Georgia and Georgia Tech

Georgia Institute of Technology

The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States...

, then known as the Georgia School of Technology was played with Georgia winning 18 to 4. The game was played at the newly created ballfields in Piedmont Park

Piedmont Park

Piedmont Park is a urban park in Atlanta, Georgia, located about northeast of Downtown, between the Midtown and Virginia Highland neighborhoods. Originally the land was owned by Dr. Benjamin Walker, who used it as his out-of-town gentleman's farm and residence...

located in the center of the horse race track, almost exactly where they still are today. Piedmont Park served the Atlanta Crackers

Atlanta Crackers

The Atlanta Crackers were minor league baseball teams based in Atlanta, Georgia, between 1901 and 1965. The Crackers were Atlanta's home team until the Atlanta Braves moved from Milwaukee in 1966....

, the city's original professional baseball

Professional baseball

Baseball is a team sport which is played by several professional leagues throughout the world. In these leagues, and associated farm teams, players are selected for their talents and are paid to play for a specific team or club system....

team, before they moved to a stadium on Ponce de Leon Avenue in 1904.

The two baseball teams have met 345 times since 1898. Georgia Tech has 148 wins, Georgia has 195 wins, and there are 2 ties in the series. Three baseball games are played between the two institutions every year. Two of the three games are played at the respective colleges' baseball stadiums while the finale is played at Turner Field

Turner Field

Turner Field is a stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, home to Major League Baseball's Atlanta Braves since 1997. Turner Field was originally built as Centennial Olympic Stadium, it was completed in 1996 to serve as the centerpiece of the 1996 Summer Olympics...

, home of the Atlanta Braves

Atlanta Braves

The Atlanta Braves are a professional baseball club based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Braves are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League. The Braves have played in Turner Field since 1997....

. The 2004 Georgia Tech vs. Georgia Game at Turner Field had the second most spectators in college baseball history with 28,836 fans in attendance.

Since the reformatting of the NCAA Baseball Tournament

NCAA Division I Baseball Championship

The NCAA Division I Baseball Championship tournament is held each year from May through June and features 64 college baseball teams in the United States, culminating in the College World Series....

in 1999, Tech and UGA have hosted eight super regionals - the fourthmost super regionals hosted by a state behind California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

, Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

, and Florida

Florida

Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

. The two teams have met six times in the NCAA tournament with Georgia holding a 4-2 edge over Tech. Georgia has eliminated Tech three times in tournament play in 1987, 2001, and 2008. Tech avenged the 2001 elimination by eliminating UGA in 2002. Tech and UGA's latest meeting in the 2008 NCAA tournament saw UGA sweep Tech in a two game series, which eliminated Tech from the tournament.

Georgia Tech has currently won 5 out of the last 6 against their cross-state rivals, outscoring UGA 68-34 in those 6 meetings. This dates back to 2009, where the two teams split games and a third was cancelled due to weather. In 2010, Georgia Tech swept the season series against UGA, winning games in Atlanta, at Turner Field, and a 25-6 win in Athens. Georgia Tech continued their recent dominance entering the 2011 year by winning the first game of the series, 15-6, in Athens. The Jackets and Dawgs will play in Atlanta and at Turner Field to conclude the 2011 series.

Other sports

Georgia Tech and Georgia enjoy healthy rivalries in all other sports in which the two universities compete most notably softball

Softball

Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...

, women's basketball, and various club sports.

The two softball teams have met 22 times and Georgia holds 15 wins in the series over Georgia Tech's 7. The two women's basketball teams have met 29 times and Georgia holds 27 wins over Georgia Tech's 3. Andy Landers, UGA's head women's basketball coach, holds the longest win streak of any coach in any sport in the history of the rivalry. His Lady Bulldogs defeated Tech 24 straight times from 1975-2001 before finally being defeated by Tech in 2002.

Through August 29, 2008, the two women's volleyball teams have played 31 times with Georgia leading the overall series with 21 wins over Georgia Tech's 10. However, Tech holds a 10-1 record since 1999, including a 7-1 mark since GT head coach Bond Shymansky took over the program in 2002. The only Georgia victory in this period came in 2005 in front of a record-breaking Georgia Bulldog crowd. Two of the last three meetings (2006 and 2007) were held in Georgia Tech's O'Keefe Gym, both in front of fire-code-limited 2000 spectators, while the latest match (2008) was held at Georgia with a crowd of 1,604. Georgia Tech game staff believes approximately 300 fans were turned away from the September 7, 2007 match due to the limit.

External links

GeorgiaDogs.com – Official Georgia athletics website
RamblinWreck.com – Official Georgia Tech athletics website
Georgia vs Georgia Tech – Georgia–Rivalry series record from College Football Data Warehouse

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