georgia-tech-history-and-traditions Stories - From The Rumble Seat
Homecoming Week! The Freshman Cake Race
You learned about the Mini-500 yesterday. But it's not Georgia Tech's one and only unique tradition that happens during homecoming. Today, we'll talk about the Freshman Cake Race. Once again, we look toward the T-Book. The Freshman Cake Race originated in 1911 as a mandatory race for all first...
A History Lesson in Tradition: Buzz and the Yellowjackets
Today, we bring back one of our more popular posts in the history of Buzz and the Yellowjackets.Today at Georgia Tech when a person hears the term "Yellowjackets" they are more than likely to immediately think of the mascot Buzz. But if you go far back enough you will see that the "Yellowjackets"...
A History Lesson in Tradition: The T-Book
In an effort to inform, educate and teach as many people as possible, The Legacy crew brings back some of their more popular posts from the "old days". Today, the history of the T-book. The resource for Georgia Tech history and traditions.As Dane let all of you know last night, the T-book is back...
10 Reasons the Institute hates the University [sic]
These are ten chronological reasons why the Institute and the University [sic] do not like eachother and they are pretty legitimate reasons for Tech fans to generally distrust, dislike, or plain out hate ugag:10. The founding of Tech in the 1880's was originally planned as the mechanical...
Ramblin' Wreck Featured on Wikipedia
The Ramblin' Wreck is the featured article on wikipedia's front page today. Pretty cool stuff.Also, thoughts go out from the Tech Family for this BC kid fighting cancer. That is just a sad story and Eagle in ATL has a really good read that puts the situation into perspective for all sports fans....
T-Book Tutorings: Rat Caps and Drownproofings
This week's T-Book Tutorials involve some student participation. I give you RAT Caps and Drownproofing.DROWNPROOFINGOften referred to as Drowning 101 by Tech students, Drownproofing was the infamous class taught by swimming coach Fred "Crankshaft" Lanoue starting in 1940. The water survival...
T-Book Tutorings: Shirttail Parades
For today's T-Book Tutorings, we talk about "Shirttail Parades":One of the many traditions that freshmen were required to participate in, shirt tail parades were always quite the spectacle for onlookers to witness. Freshmen would form a tunnel after every game for the team to run through while...
40th Anniversary of THE Moonwalk
1969 was an interesting year for GT. Integration was sweeping across the Deep South and particularly the public school systems. Tech's President Edwin Harrison retired. Fulmer Hall opened as the first women's dormitory on campus. 1969 was also the first year women could enroll in all classes at...
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