1919 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team

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1919
Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football
ConferenceSouthern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Record7–3 (3–1 SIAA)
Head coach
Offensive schemeJump shift
CaptainPup Phillips
Home stadiumGrant Field
Seasons
1919 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Auburn $ 5 1 0 8 1 0
Alabama 6 1 0 8 1 0
Centre 1 0 0 9 0 0
Kentucky 3 1 1 3 4 1
Georgia Tech 3 1 0 7 3 0
Tulane 3 1 1 6 2 1
Vanderbilt 3 1 2 5 1 2
Furman 2 1 1 6 2 1
Mississippi A&M 5 2 0 6 2 0
Georgia 4 2 2 4 2 3
LSU 3 2 0 6 2 0
Clemson 3 2 2 6 2 2
Florida 2 2 0 5 3 0
Wofford 1 1 0 3 2 1
Transylvania 1 1 0 2 4 0
Ole Miss 1 4 0 4 4 0
The Citadel 1 4 0 4 4 1
Sewanee 1 4 0 3 6 0
Georgetown (KY) 0 0 0 0 2 0
Tennessee 0 3 2 3 3 3
South Carolina 0 4 1 1 7 1
Mercer 0 1 0 0 2 0
Mississippi College 0 4 0 3 5 1
Howard (AL) 0 4 0 3 5 2
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1919 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team

Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1919 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The Tornado was coached by John Heisman
in his 15th year as head coach, compiling a record of 7–3 (3–1 SIAA) and outscoring opponents 257 to 33.

Before the season

Jack McDonough started at quarterback as a true freshman when Marshall Guill was moved to end. Pup Phillips was captain.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendance
September 20Camp Logan*W 48–0
September 27Furman
  • Grant Field
  • Atlanta, GA
W 74–0
October 4Wake Forest*
  • Grant Field
  • Atlanta, GA
W 14–0
October 11Clemson
W 28–05,000
October 18Vanderbilt
W 20–0
October 25at Pittsburgh*L 16–6
November 1Davidson*
  • Grant Field
  • Atlanta, GA
W 33–0
November 8Washington & Lee*
  • Grant Field
  • Atlanta, GA
L 3–0
November 15Georgetown*
  • Grant Field
  • Atlanta, GA
W 27–0
November 27Auburn
L 14–7
  • *Non-conference game

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Game summaries

Camp Logan

The season opened with a 48–0 defeat of Camp Logan.

Furman

In the second week of play, Tech swamped Furman, 74–0.

Wake Forest

Tech beat Wake Forest 14–0.

Clemson

Week 4: Clemson @ Georgia Tech
1 234Total
Clemson 0 000 0
Ga. Tech 0 01414 28

Sources:[4]

After being held scoreless in the first half, Tech beat

Shorty Guill. The first touchdown was the best run of the game, for 26 yards around left end,[4] Flowers "sidestepped, ducked, twisted and turned until he had again crossed the field almost to the opposite side and then stiff-arming the last man in his way, crossed the goal for a touchdown."[4] Red Barron went around right end for 35 yards and the second touchdown. A 15-yard pass from Flowers to Bill Fincher netted the third touchdown.[4] Ferst went back in for Guill and got the last touchdown on a 12-yard buck behind left guard.[4]

The starting lineup was: Fincher (left end), Higgins (left tackle), Lebey (left guard), Phillips (center), Dowling (right guard), Lyman (right tackle), Staton (right end), McDonough (quarterback), Flowers (left halfback), Barron (right halfback), Gaiver (fullback).[4]

Vanderbilt

Tech-Vanderbilt

Tech beat Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores in the mud 20–0, giving the Commodores their only loss on the season. Buck Flowers and fullback Bill Giaver starred.[5]

The starting lineup was: Fincher (left end), Higgins (left tackle), Lebey (left guard), Amis (center), Dowling (right guard), Huffines (right tackle), Staton (right end), Guill (quarterback), Flowers (left halfback), Barron (right halfback), Gavier (fullback).[6]

Pittsburgh

Tech was beaten 16–6 by

Pop Warner's Pittsburgh Panthers
, the first team to score on Tech all year.

Davidson

Tech beat Davidson 33–0, Flowers running around his old teammates.[7]

Washington & Lee

Quarterback Jim Mattox made the field goal to help Washington & Lee upset Tech.[8] the first loss to a Southern team since 1914 for Tech.

The starting lineup was: Fincher (left end), Doyal (left tackle), Lebey (left guard), Phillips (center), Dowling (right guard), Higgins (right tackle), Staton (right end), Guill (quarterback), Flowers (left halfback), Ferst (right halfback), Gavier (fullback).[9]

Georgetown

Dewey Scarboro returned a kickoff 102 yards for a touchdown in the 27–0 win over Georgetown.[10]

Auburn

Week 10: Auburn @ Georgia Tech
1 234Total
Auburn 0 266 14
Ga. Tech 7 000 7
  • Sources:

The Auburn Tigers beat Tech 14–7, its first loss to an SIAA school in five years. The first touchdown of the game was made by Jack McDonough. Judy Harlan later fell on his own punt for a safety. In the third quarter, Warren blocked a Dewey Scarboro punt and Sloan recovered the ball and ran it 35 yards for a touchdown. Auburn's Fatty Warren "waddled" for a 40-yard touchdown off a blocked punt in the victory.[11][12]

The starting lineup was Guill (left end), Fincher (left tackle), Lebey (left guard), Phillips (center), Dowling (right guard), Huffines (right tackle), Staton (right end), McDonough (quarterback), Barron (left halfback), Ferst (right halfback), Harlan (fullback).[13]

Postseason

After a divorce in 1919, Heisman left Atlanta to prevent any social embarrassment to his former wife, who chose to remain in the city.

Bill Alexander as successor and went back to the University of Pennsylvania
for three seasons, from 1920 to 1922.

Notes

  1. ^ Although Georgia Tech's teams are officially known as the "Yellow Jackets", northern writers called the team the "Golden Tornado" in 1917; the name was commonly used until 1928 and for many years afterwards as an alternate nickname.[1] It may have been coined by Morgan Blake.[2]

Endnotes

  1. ^ Van Brimmer & Rice 2011, p. 147
  2. ^ "Golden Tornadoes". Retrieved January 28, 2015.
  3. ^ "1919 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Schedule and Results".
  4. ^
    Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  5. ^ Woodruff 1928, p. 84
  6. ^ Woodruff 1928, p. 93
  7. ^ "Calyx". Washington and Lee University. 1920.
  8. ^ Woodruff 1928, p. 95
  9. ^ "Dewey Scarboro:'A limousine gone crazy'".
  10. ^ 1920 Glomerata p. 173
  11. Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  12. ^ "Tech Timeline: 1910s". Tech Traditions. Georgia Tech Alumni Association. Archived from the original on October 16, 2007. Retrieved May 21, 2007.

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