Hey Fred!!

[freakofnature]

I'm reading this book about mischief and came across this little tidbit:

In 1896, Georgia Tech's college football team traveled by railroad to Auburn for a game. But when the conductor tried to stop the train at the station, it slipped along the tracks for ten miles before finally halting. This was because Auburn students had greased the train tracks! Georgia Tech's team had to walk the ten miles back to the train station. Tired and grumpy, they lost the game to Auburn that day 45-0.

Have you ever heard that story? Wouldn't that be considered cheating?

 

[Springsteen]

He might have had something to do with it :ninja

Only kidding Fred

 

[AUFred]

I'm reading this book about mischief and came across this little tidbit:

Have you ever heard that story? Wouldn't that be considered cheating?

When Auburn played Georgia Tech yearly the students at Auburn would have a pajama parade. The students would do this as a way of reminding the team how much the students are willing to do to help the team. They still do when we get the opportunity to play them again. However the PJ's are far more risque' now than they were years ago.

He might have had something to do with it :ninja

Only kidding Fred

Just a few years before I was haunting Auburn.:nod:

 

[AUFred]

A little more information:

The Wreck Tech Pajama Parade originated in 1896, when a group of mischievous Auburn ROTC cadets, determined to show up the more well-known engineers from Georgia Tech, sneaked out of their dorms the night before the football game between Auburn and Tech and greased the railroad tracks. According to the story, the train carrying the Georgia Tech team slid through town and didn't stop until it was halfway to the neighboring town of Loachapoka, Alabama. The Georgia Tech team was forced to walk the five miles back to Auburn and, not surprisingly, were rather weary at the end of their journey. This likely contributed to their 45–0 loss. While the railroad long ago ceased to be the way teams traveled to Auburn and students never greased the tracks again, the tradition continues in the form of a parade through downtown Auburn. Students parade through the streets in their pajamas and organizations build floats.

 

[freakofnature]

LOL, that's cool! There's nothing like a good rivalry.

 

[Darrell]

I love a good healthy rivalry.

 

[AUFred]

the healthy seems to have gone away in some of our rivalries.