George Allen (Cumberland)
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| George C. Allen | ||
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| Title | Head coach | |
| College | Cumberland University | |
| Sport | college football | |
| Career highlights | ||
| Overall | 0-1 | |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||
| 1916 | Cumberland University | |
George C. Allen was the head football coach for Cumberland College Bulldogs in Lebanon, Tennessee for one game in 1916.[1] Cumberland University suffered the greatest loss in the history of college football to Georgia Tech by a score of 222 to zero.[2]
Cumberland had actually discontinued its football program before the season but was not allowed to cancel its game against the Engineers. Georgia Tech coach John Heisman insisted on the schools' scheduling agreement, which required Cumberland to pay $3,000 (considered a sizeable sum in 1916) to Tech if its football team failed to show.[3]
George Allen (who was elected to serve as Cumberland's football team student manager after first serving as the baseball team student manager) put together a scrub team of 14 men to travel to Atlanta as Cumberland's football team and were soundly beaten 222 to zero and saved the college $3,000 in the process.[4]
Cumberland would not play football again until 1920.[5]
Allen went on to a prominent career in politics.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ Cumberland University The Game of the Century
- ^ Gergia Tech Alumni Cumberland 0, Tech 222
- ^ Sports Illustrated Football's Glorious Slaughter
- ^ New York Times, "In 1916, a Blowout for the Ages", Litsky, Frank, October 7, 2006.
- ^ Cumberland University Athletics Football history
- ^ Time Magazine "The Regular Guys"
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