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1916 Cumberland vs. Georgia Tech football game
The 1916 Cumberland vs. Georgia Tech football game was the most lopsided in the history of college football, with Georgia Tech winning 222–0. The game was played on October 7, 1916, between the Georgia Tech Engineers and Cumberland College Bulldogs at Grant Field (now a part of Bobby Dodd Stadium) in Atlanta, Georgia.
==Background==
Cumberland College, a Presbyterian 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, Heisman also being the Engineers' baseball coach.〔〔 He insisted on the schools' scheduling agreement, which required Cumberland to pay $3,000 ($ in inflation-adjusted terms) to Tech if its football team failed to show.〔〔 In fact, Heisman actually paid Cumberland $500 ($ in inflation-adjusted terms) as an incentive to play the game; his letter to Cumberland's athletic department read in part
I hearby offer you the sum of $500 and an all-expenses-paid trip to Atlanta for your football team on the condition that you honor your contract by participating in and completing the Cumberland-Georgia Tech football game ... However, if this offer is refused ... I shall be forced to demand that your school reimburse the Tech Athletic Dept. in the amount of $3,000 for losses from the projected net gate receipts ...〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Loss That Lives In Legend Cumberland Crashed In Football, 222-0 )〕
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 12-16 players, most of whom were his fraternity brothers, to travel to Atlanta as Cumberland's football team.〔
Another reason for Heisman's plan to run up the score was the practice among the sportswriters of the time to rank teams based upon how many points they scored. Since this statistic did not account for the strength or weakness of a team's opponent, Heisman disagreed with the amount of weight the writers tended to assign to it, and he may have unleashed his players on Cumberland to make his point.
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