https://vault.si.com/vault/1962/11/...v3PwVVrw0Mh2ziruWNLCckLtltdrPX4ngD1mnF2KJqzrQ
Every now and then, the Tech Football Facebook group actually comes up with something good. This is an excellent article on the 1962 Tech/Bama game, and it also discusses the previous year's infamous Holt-Graning incident. This whole situation had about as much to do with us leaving the SEC as the scholarship issues.
It cites a fact that in 1959, a whopping EIGHTEEN players died playing football! It's unbelievable the level of brutality that was accepted back then. Today, by the time the third kid died the whole sport would be suspended; and rightly so.
Every now and then, the Tech Football Facebook group actually comes up with something good. This is an excellent article on the 1962 Tech/Bama game, and it also discusses the previous year's infamous Holt-Graning incident. This whole situation had about as much to do with us leaving the SEC as the scholarship issues.
It cites a fact that in 1959, a whopping EIGHTEEN players died playing football! It's unbelievable the level of brutality that was accepted back then. Today, by the time the third kid died the whole sport would be suspended; and rightly so.
