Rearview Mirror: How To Win Enemies and Anger People

The first game at the school out East ended with a win, and a train wreck. The first game on the plains of Auburn, Alabama, was, for all intents and purposes, that game’s mirror image. The Yellow Jackets, in the second week of the season, headed west across state lines to face the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama, coached by a face that would become all-too-familiar on the Flats less than a decade later.

I long for the days of playing Auburn. There, I said it. Might as well start with that. Sure, I’m too new of a Tech fan to remember any actual games against them, but might as well make my biases known right off the bat. Not that it really changes the narrative from 1896, of…