Most lopsided game in football history (1 Viewer)

[fantasizing]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1916_Cumberland_vs._Georgia_Tech_football_game

 

[Ladsud]

40.5 yards per carry for 1620 yards, nicely done.

 

[PlasmaDogPlasma]

John Heisman tore into his team at halftime of that game.

 

[Hipple Long Ware & Peete]

It's kinda funny to think of the Big Bad Georgia Tech as the Bully/Goliath here

 

[Raiderfan32904]

40.5 yards per carry for 1620 yards, nicely done.

What's more amazing is Georgia Tech had zero yards passing on zero attempts.

 

[Canowupass]

I remember that game. I had Georgia Tech's starting running back. He got me 434 points.

 

[Grand Poobah]

I remember that game. I had Georgia Tech's starting running back. He got me 434 points.

I was not so smart, started Cumberland D/ST.

 

[Liquid Tension]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1916_Cumberland_vs._Georgia_Tech_football_game

So what do you say to your team at half time? "OK boys all we need are 20 more TD's than then in the 2nd half"

 

[lakerstan]

Feel bad for the GA Tech QB. You win by 222 points and his QB rating was "n/a".

Ground and pound, baby!

 

[RenegadeGM]

I see the Cumberland QB was 2 of 18 for 14 yards and 6 INT. Rough day for Hebert Charles Grossman.

 

[jon_mx]

On the bright side for Cumberland, Georgia Tech failed to get a single first down.

 

[flapgreen]

My buddy played for Cumberland, so he knows about that game. He said most of the players were away at war, and it was just some local guys they recruited who weren't even on the team.

 

[Brack]

I see the Cumberland QB was 2 of 18 for 14 yards and 6 INT. Rough day for Hebert Charles Grossman.

His great-grandson Rex had roughly that stat-line last week. The apple of suck never falls that far from the tree.

 

[fatness]

Interesting stuff:

Cumberland College, a school in Lebanon, Tennessee, had discontinued its football program before the season but was not allowed to cancel its game against the Engineers. The fact that Cumberland's baseball team had crushed Georgia Tech earlier that year 22-0 (amidst allegations that Cumberland used professionals as ringers) probably accounted for Georgia Tech coach John Heisman's running up the score on the Bulldogs. He insisted on the schools' scheduling agreement, which required Cumberland to pay $3,000 ($60,349 in inflation-adjusted terms) to Tech if its football team failed to show. So, George E. Allen (who was elected to serve as Cumberland's football team student manager after first serving as the baseball team student manager) put together a team of 14 men to travel to Atlanta as Cumberland's football team.

"Help wanted. One day's work. Free beer on ride home."

 

[PlasmaDogPlasma]

It's kinda funny that John Heisman is seen as a legend, but if a modern coach acted like that he would become a pariah.

 

[MDSkinner]

It's kinda funny that John Heisman is seen as a legend, but if a modern coach acted like that he would become a pariah.

He was not trying to run up the score....the Guy never threw a pass.

 

[Bruno2]

Georgia Tech actually missed two extra points, it could have been 224-0... I still find this hard to believe. I'd like to see a box score. 63 pts in a quarter? Twice? I know the Cumberland team was a bunch of scubs, but they could have at least tried to make a tackle. I picture GT hiking the ball and the other team just lets them run by... Still, is there enough time to score that many TDs per quarter? Did they run time off the clock that differently back in those days?

 

[jon_mx]

Georgia Tech actually missed two extra points, it could have been 224-0... I still find this hard to believe. I'd like to see a box score. 63 pts in a quarter? Twice? I know the Cumberland team was a bunch of scubs, but they could have at least tried to make a tackle. I picture GT hiking the ball and the other team just lets them run by... Still, is there enough time to score that many TDs per quarter? Did they run time off the clock that differently back in those days?

Neither team got a first down. GT scored a TD on almost every play from scrimmage. Seems pretty reasonable that GT got to run probably 30 some plays from scrimmage and score upper 20's of them. The other team turned the ball over numerous times too. I assume there might on been a half dozen defensive scores too. I don't see that time was a problem.

 

[fantasizing]

Even though wikipedia is not a reliable and trusted source of information, they did reference this article

from NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/07/sports/ncaafootball/07tech.html

 

[fantasizing]

I don't understand how the referees allowed the game to continue. They should have just instituted a mercy rule of their own

to stop the humiliation, if for nothing else to prevent someone on Cumberland from getting killed at the line of scrimmage.

 

[Sea Duck]

It's kinda funny that John Heisman is seen as a legend, but if a modern coach acted like that he would become a pariah.

He was not trying to run up the score....the Guy never threw a pass.

One has nothing to do with the other.

 

[Verminator]

There is a Wiki site of all reported 100 point games in college football history.

I actually remember the last two:

Portland State 105, Delaware St 0 in 1980 (remember Neil Lomax?)

Rockford College 105, Trinity 0 in 2003 (I was living in the area at the time... Trinity disbanded their football team after the third games of the season)

It seems like 100 point games were common in the early 1900s.... must have been the steroid era of college football!!

 

[MDSkinner]

It's kinda funny that John Heisman is seen as a legend, but if a modern coach acted like that he would become a pariah.

He was not trying to run up the score....the Guy never threw a pass.

One has nothing to do with the other.

This is true, but my point is what should he have done, told them to run backwards and stop trying?

 

[Jules Winnfield]

Georgia Tech actually missed two extra points, it could have been 224-0... I still find this hard to believe. I'd like to see a box score. 63 pts in a quarter? Twice? I know the Cumberland team was a bunch of scubs, but they could have at least tried to make a tackle. I picture GT hiking the ball and the other team just lets them run by... Still, is there enough time to score that many TDs per quarter? Did they run time off the clock that differently back in those days?

Think how the bettors feltThe spread was Ga Tech -223

 

[Philip J Fry]

I don't understand how the referees allowed the game to continue. They should have just instituted a mercy rule of their ownto stop the humiliation, if for nothing else to prevent someone on Cumberland from getting killed at the line of scrimmage.

At the time when ranking teams points scored was a factor.

 

[glumpy]

Just an unusual circumstance. What I took away from the write-up was the photography in that article.