A bit about Tech:
Colors: Urine and White
Mascot: NERDS
Location: Atlanta, GA
Last Meeting: Georgia won, 19-13 (2004)
All-Time Record: 56 - 35* - 5, Georgia leads series
* does not count 2 WWII or 3 "vacated 1998-2000" wins
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SCHOOL COLORS, STOLEN GIRL FRIENDS, AND YELLOW JACKET TREACHERY
by Mike Cheatham
"Turf wars" involving Georgia and its ancient rival, Georgia Tech,
began with the playing of the first football game in the series. And the effect
of the opponent's underhanded ploy in that 1893 contest resulted in the senior
institution's removing the color gold (or yellow) from its official school colors.
In the December 1891 issue of The University's literary magazine, the editors-selected
members of the Demosthenian and Phi Kappa literary societies - had proclaimed
those colors to be "old gold, black, and crimson". This selection
extended an earlier custom of each class' selecting its colors and publishing
them in the yearbook. However, Dr. Charles H. Herty-faculty member, "the
father of intercollegiate athletics" at The University, and her first football
coach-saw "yellow", as he called it, not gold when he spied the hues
on the cover of The Georgia University Magazine.
The 24-year-old holder of a doctorate from Johns Hopkins had led initial efforts
to stimulate and harness school spirit, organized the schoolÕs first
Athletic Association, and saw to it that yellow was eliminated from the colors.
Speaking with student leaders, "We all agreed we didn't want yellow around
Georgia athletics", reflecting extreme distaste for anything "yellow",
or cowardly. (Early on, the "crimson" became good ol' Georgia "red".)
A mailed glove, however, was laid across the face of Georgia athletics that
day the rivalry commenced. It was the "somebody-stole-my-gal" maneuver
perpetrated by "the Teckity Techs" of '93. Earlier that season, the
Techs had chosen as their colors white and gold. And they proceed to deck out
200 young ladies from all-girl Lucy Cobb Institute in those very hues to cheer
on Tech's varsity at old Herty Field. Alas, the finishing school's campus lay
just about a mile and one-half from the playing field-in Athens! "These
are our girls!", the cry arose.
So, until this very day, when a Georgia Bulldog smells out a Georgia Tech "Yellow
Jacket," he sees red.
Source: UGA
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