The Most Unbreakable Record Ever!

On October 17, 1916 on a field in Atlanta, history was being made.

John Heisman, Head Coach of the Georgia Tech Engineers (yes the same guy the trophy is named after,) was furious at the Cumberland Bulldogs for allegedly bringing in "ringers" to play for their baseball team and in doing so, they crushed Tech 22-0.

There was nothing the Cumberland football team could do to stop the rushing attack of the Engineers that day. The Engineers ran the ball only forty time but ran for 1650 yards and 28 touchdowns! They did not even attempt a pass in the entire game.

The Atlanta Journal wrote of the game, "As a general rule, the only thing necessary for a touchdown was to give a Tech back the ball and holler, ‘Here he comes’ and ‘There he goes.’"

It was not only an impressive offensive game for the Engineers, but their defense showed up with vengeance. They intercepted the ball six times and recovered nine fumbles.

The only thing that was not perfect about the game for Tech was their kicker who missed two extra point attempts which would have made the score 224-0.

For the longest time, I felt there were a few records that could not be broken. Then Lou Gehrig's record fell, then Henry Aaron's. I still believe the single season RBI record in Major League Baseball is very safe because hitting over 190 RBI will be extremely difficult for anyone to do again. But scoring over 200 points in a regulation length football game of four quarters just cannot be done again at that level with the level of competition playing today.

I bet Cumberland coach George Allen is really regarding just slapping a team of fourteen men together, most being his Kappa Sigma brothers, and just let the school pay the $3000 dollars it would have owed Tech if they had not played. Sure $3000 was a ton of money at that time but was it worth being known as the "Greatest Blowout of All Time?"

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