Georgia Tech is celebrating 105 years since profitable the crookedest faculty soccer sport – WSB-TV Channel 2

ATLANTA – It’s a record Georgia Tech has held for more than 100 years – and it’s not clear if it will ever be broken again.

On October 7, 1916, the Georgia Tech football team played against Cumberland University at Grant Field, now part of Bobby Dodd Stadium in Atlanta.

Tech coach John Heisman led the team to victory over Cumberland. But it was an unprecedented victory.

Tech beat Cumberland 222-0. The team scored a total of 32 touchdowns.

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According to the Guinness Book of Records, it is considered the crookedest college football game in history.

The game had no first downs – Cumberland didn’t make any, and Tech scored every time it had the ball, according to Georgia Tech.

In 2014, a Georgia Tech graduate from Atlanta won the tender for a cherished piece of college football and school history – what counts as the pawn in this historic game.

“It’s not mine,” said Ryan Schneider, a 46-year-old patent attorney. “It’s for school.”

Schneider won the ball with a bid of $ 40,388, the 19th bid in SCP Auctions’ 19-day online auction. The online records of the auction house, an autographed football signed by the 1966 Green Bay Packers, winners of the first Super Bowl, which went for $ 26,046, broke the previous high for a football.

Schneider, married father of three, lived in Buckhead and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, but has long been familiar with one of the most famous games in college football history. He said he remembered reading about the game when he was 7 or 8 years old and saw a picture of the same ball in the Guinness Book of Records. Years later, he ended up at Tech and followed in his father’s footsteps. He studied mechanical engineering before studying law.

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“But it’s still all about what I’ve learned and experienced at tech,” he said.

Schneider kept his plan a secret and did not inform his two little sons of his plan until late in the tender.

“We’re a pretty open family,” said Schneider. “The kids are mad tech fans and everything. Back then it was just about nobody but me and me, giving something back to tech. In all honesty, if I had told my wife or my children they would probably have told me I was completely crazy about what they later told me. “

Schneider donated the ball to his alma mater. It is now located in the Arthur B. Edge Intercollegiate Athletics Center at Georgia Tech.

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The ball was auctioned off as a fundraiser for the LA84 Foundation, a nonprofit that funds youth sports in Southern California.

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