1915 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team
Week 2: Davidson at Georgia Tech
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
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| Davidson |
0 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
| • Ga. Tech
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0 |
0 |
14 |
7 |
21 |
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Week 3: Transylvania at Georgia Tech
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2 |
3 |
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| Transy |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| • Ga. Tech
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10 |
7 |
14 |
26 |
57 |
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Week 5: North Carolina at Georgia Tech
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3 |
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| UNC |
0 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
| • Ga. Tech
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13 |
0 |
0 |
10 |
23 |
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Week 6: Alabama at Georgia Tech
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| Alabama |
0 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
7 |
| • Ga. Tech
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7 |
7 |
7 |
0 |
21 |
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Week 7: Georgia at Georgia Tech
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2 |
3 |
4 |
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| Georgia |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Ga. Tech |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Week 8: Auburn at Georgia Tech
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2 |
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| Auburn |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| • Ga. Tech
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0 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
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The 1915 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team represented the Georgia Tech Golden Tornado of the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1915 college football season. The Tornado was coached by John Heisman in his 12th year as head coach, compiling a record of 7–0–1 and outscoring opponents 233 to 24. Georgia Tech played its home games at Grant Field. The Tech team claims a Southern championship, and had what was then the greatest season in its history.
Coach John Heisman's backfield used the pre-snap movement of his "jump shift" offense. The team's captain was Froggie Morrison, Tech's first great quarterback. Fullback Tommy Spence was a future World War I casualty, and halfback Wooch Fielder was later a prominent figure in World War II.
New halfback Everett Strupper was partially deaf; because of his deafness, he called the signals when he played, instead of the team's quarterback. When "Strupe" tried out for the team, he noticed that the quarterback shouted the signals every time he was to carry the ball. Realizing that the loud signals would be a tip-off to the opposition, Strupper told Heisman: "Coach, those loud signals are absolutely unnecessary. You see when sickness in my kid days brought on this deafness my folks gave me the best instructors obtainable to teach me lip-reading." Heisman recalled how Strupper overcame his deafness: "He couldn't hear anything but a regular shout. But he could read your lips like a flash. No lad that ever stepped on a football field had keener eyes than Everett had. The enemy found this out the minute he began looking for openings through which to run the ball."
Tech opened the season with a 52–0 defeat of the Mercer Baptists. The Tech backs plunged through the Baptists line almost at will.
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