1918 spanish flu georgia tech football game. A copy of a story in the oct. The 1918 georgia tech golden tornado football team represented the georgia institute of technology during the 1918 southern intercollegiate athletic association football seasonthe tornado was coached by john heisman in his 15th year as head coach compiling a record of 61 30 siaa and outscoring opponents 466 to 32. An old photo of a football game during the 1918 spanish flu is making the rounds on twitter.
Fans at a georgia tech football game during 1918 pandemic. Tony barnhart tweeted a photo of masked fans at a georgia tech football game back in 1918 during the spanish flu pandemic. 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.
Thats when the sport was hit by the spanish flu and the end of world war i. There was a rose bowl after the 1918 season but back then it was called the. Thomas carter was an undergraduate at the time and.
Here is a photo of an undetermined georgia tech home game during the 1918 college football season. A georgia tech game that was scheduled with pennsylvania was cancelled when the spanish flu went through philadelphia. The photo was taken by graduate thomas carter.
College football expert tony barnhart tweeted a photo of fans attending a football game at georgia tech in 1918 during a time when the spanish flu hit the entire country and led to fans wearing masks in order to protect themselves. 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. A picture taken during the 1918 flu pandemic shows football fans wearing masks at a georgia tech game in atlanta.
Georgia tech played its home games at grant field. 16 1918 edition of the atlanta constitution about the georgia tech football team. Football fans wear masks during a 1918 game at georgia tech in atlanta georgia.