“The South stands at Armageddon.” Those words, backing up a bogus stance though they may be, are both definitive and not chosen by accident. This is neither the right blog nor the right context to discuss why the governor was saying that, but it is the right column to find out how the heck the 1955 edition of the Georgia Tech football team played themselves into one of the more controversial games in the long history of the sport on the Flats.
As seen in the cover photo, Tech started the 1955 season with familiar-sounding captain.