1918 georgia tech football masks. One image shows the team on the field. There was a rose bowl after the 1918 season but back then it was called the. A photo was uncovered that showed fans wearing masks in a 1918 football game which may become the new normal in 2020.
As with the mlb season fans attending college football games wore masks as shown in these photos of a georgia tech game at grant field in 1918. 12 furman game wearing influenza masks like bandits of. Fans watching a college football game in the midst of a pandemic wearing masks with a smidge of social distance between them on row after row of bleacher seats.
Here is a photo of an undetermined georgia tech home game during the 1918 college football season. Tony barnhart tweeted a photo of masked fans at a georgia tech football game back in 1918 during the spanish flu pandemic. If the threat of wear a.
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16 1918 edition of the atlanta constitution about the georgia tech football team. The photo is 102 years old. Story behind 1918 georgia tech mask.
The georgia tech alumni twitter feed posted a black and white photo of the scene at grant field in 1918. A copy of a story in the oct. During the deadly second wave of the 1918 pandemic georgia tech still managed to play seven games six at home and one on the road that was rescheduled for pitt.
A georgia tech game that was scheduled with pennsylvania was cancelled when the spanish flu went through philadelphia. A picture taken during the 1918 flu pandemic shows football fans wearing masks at a georgia tech game in atlanta. Decades before tailgates prime time kickoffs and billions in program.
And this photo of fans at a georgia tech college football game will feel. Thomas carter was an undergraduate at the time and. Think of the coach at georgia tech with no one to butter up but himself.
The georgia tech alumni association posted a photo taken in its schools stands in 1918 in which fans are wearing masks to protect themselves and each other from the spanish flu pandemic which.