1918 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team

1918 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football
SIAA champion
Conference	Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
1918 record	6–1 (3–0 SIAA)
Head coach	John Heisman (15th year)
Assistant coach	Fay Wood
Offensive scheme	Jump shift
Captain	Bill Fincher
Home stadium	Grant Field
Uniform
Seasons ← 1917 1919 →

1918 SIAA football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Georgia Tech $	3	–	0	–	0			6	–	1	–	0
Vanderbilt	2	–	0	–	0			4	–	2	–	0
Mississippi A&M	2	–	0	–	0			3	–	2	–	0
Clemson	3	–	1	–	0			5	–	2	–	0
Furman	1	–	3	–	0			3	–	5	–	1
The Citadel	0	–	1	–	1			0	–	2	–	1
Sewanee	0	–	1	–	0			3	–	2	–	0
Wofford	0	–	1	–	0			0	–	3	–	0
Auburn	0	–	2	–	0			2	–	5	–	0
Ole Miss	0	–	2	–	0			1	–	3	–	0
$ – Conference champion There were several SIAA schools that did not field a team due to World War I.

Clemson at Georgia Tech

1 2 3 4 Total Clemson 0 0 0 0 0 • Ga. Tech 0 14 7 7 28 Date: October 5 Location: Grant Field Atlanta, GA Referee: Lieut. Messer Sources:

Furman at Georgia Tech

1 2 3 4 Total Furman 0 0 0 0 0 • Ga. Tech 14 35 28 41 118 Date: October 12 Location: Grant Field Atlanta, GA Referee: Lewis (Virginia) Sources:

North Carolina State at Georgia Tech

1 2 3 4 Total NCST 0 0 0 0 0 • Ga. Tech 33 42 32 21 128 Date: November 9 Location: Grant Field Atlanta, GA Referee: Moriarty Sources:

Georgia Tech at Pittsburgh

1 2 3 4 Total Ga. Tech 0 0 0 0 0 • Pitt 7 7 12 6 32 Date: November 23 Location: Forbes Field Pittsburgh, PA Game attendance: 30,000 Referee: Tufts (Brown) Sources:

Auburn at Georgia Tech

1 2 3 4 Total Auburn 0 0 0 0 0 • Ga. Tech 14 14 6 7 41 Date: November 28 Location: Grant Field Atlanta, GA Referee: Lambert (Ohio State) Sources:

The 1918 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team represented the Georgia Tech Golden Tornado of the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1918 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The Tornado was coached by John Heisman in his 15th year as head coach, compiling a record of 6–1 (2–0 SIAA) and outscoring opponents 466 to 32. Georgia Tech played its home games at Grant Field.

Tech eclipsed 100 points three different times. Its only road game was its only loss to national champion Pittsburgh at Forbes Field. Pittsburgh was the only team to score on Tech during the 1918 season. The defeat ended Georgia Tech's 33-game winning streak.

Center Bum Day was recognized as a consensus first-team All-American. He was a first-team selection by Walter Camp; the first Southerner to be chosen for Camp's All-America first team. Bill Fincher and Joe Guyon also made consensus All-America. Fincher and Buck Flowers made Camp's second-team.

Because of America's entry into World War I in April 1917 and the ongoing war effort, several SIAA schools did not field football teams in 1918. Coming off the South's first national championship in 1917, Tech lost several players to the war effort and was heavily reliant on freshmen.

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