College Football has been the king of sports in the deep south for the better part of the last century, and Georgia Tech has made more than the program’s fair share of contributions to that fact over the years.
A hundred years ago, John Heisman’s 1917 Golden Tornadoes won the South’s first football national title. It would be more than a half century later before an African-American player would suit up and start on the Flats.
In 1970, sophomore Eddie McAshan not only started for the Yellow Jackets, but he did so as Georgia Tech’s quarterback.