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The original Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket mascot was Judi McNair who, according to the Winter 2004 edition of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association Tech Topics magazine, donned a homemade yellowjacket costume in 1972 and performed at home football games. [12] She rode on the Ramblin' Wreck and appears in the 1972 Georgia Tech Blueprint yearbook. [12]
The Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech is the 1930 Ford Model A Sport coupe that serves as the official mascot of the student body at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The Wreck is present at all major sporting events and student body functions.
Georgia Tech also fields men and women's track and field, [24] men and women's swimming and diving, [24] men and women's cross country, and assorted club sports. Georgia Tech's Angelo Taylor won gold medals in 400 m hurdles at the 2000 and 2008 Summer Olympics. Buddy Fowlkes was one of Tech's most successful track coaches.
The Duke Blue Devils basketball team will open ACC play at Georgia Tech.. The Yellow Jackets (3-2) host the seventh-ranked Blue Devils (5-2) on Saturday (2:15 p.m., The CW Network) at McCamish ...
Atlanta during the Civil War, c. 1864 The idea of a technology school in Georgia was introduced in 1865 during the Reconstruction period. Two former Confederate officers, Major John Fletcher Hanson (an industrialist) and Nathaniel Edwin Harris (a politician and eventually Governor of Georgia), who had become prominent citizens in the town of Macon, Georgia, after the Civil War, believed that ...
Georgia vs Georgia Tech time today. Date: Today. Time: 7:30 p.m. Location ... Georgia Tech's last win: 28-27 in ... The forecast calls for temperatures around 40 near kickoff with clear skies and ...
Will there be a reunion between mascots Uga and Bevo at the Georgia football game at Texas? A decision has been made.
In 1916, Georgia Tech's football team (coached by John Heisman—for whom the trophy is named) defeated Cumberland 222-0, the largest margin of victory in college football history. [93] Cumberland's total net yardage was -28 (minus 28), and it had only one play for positive yards. Cumberland did not record a first down.