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Buzz is beloved by Georgia Tech students and fans for his spirit and antics. He is a prankster and likes to crowd-surf . [ 7 ] Buzz is seen at football games, basketball games, Georgia Tech Six Flags Night, and other events. [ 8 ]
Costumed in plush to look like a yellow jacket, the official mascot of Georgia Tech is Buzz. Buzz enters the football games at the sound of swarming yellow jackets and proceeds to do a flip on the fifty-yard line GT logo. He then bull rushes the goal post and has been known to knock it out of alignment before football games.
I'm a Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech, and a hell of an engineer— A helluva, helluva, helluva, helluva, hell of an engineer. Like all the jolly good fellows, I drink my whiskey clear. I'm a Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech and a hell of an engineer. Oh! If I had a daughter, sir, I'd dress her in White and Gold,
Georgia Tech's first two graduates were Henry L. Smith (top row, center) and George G. Crawford (top row, far right).. This list of Georgia Institute of Technology alumni includes graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of Georgia Tech.
Georgia Tech's mascot Buzz got his start in the 1970s. The original Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket mascot was Judi McNair who donned a homemade yellowjacket costume in 1972 and performed at home football games. [182] She rode on the Ramblin' Wreck and appears in the 1972 Georgia Tech Blueprint yearbook. [182]
Mascots – The "Ramblin' Reck" and the yellow jacket "Buzz" are the mascots of Georgia Tech football. The "Ramblin' Reck" is a 1930 Ford Model A Sports Coupe, and it has led the football team onto Grant Field every game since September 30, 1961. [146] "
This would be the first time and not the last time that the Georgia Tech sports teams would be referred to as the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. [89] Buzz Bee became the anthropomorphized Yellow Jacket in 1979. He was initially an impromptu student volunteer but is now an official cheerleader that requires an intense tryout process.
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.