1897 Georgia Bulldogs football team

1897 Georgia Bulldogs football

Conference	Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
1897 record	2–1 (2–0 SIAA)
Head coach	Charles McCarthy
Home stadium	Herty Field

1897 SIAA football standings
	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Vanderbilt $	3	–	0	–	0	6	–	0	–	1
Georgia	2	–	0	–	0	2	–	1	–	0
Auburn	2	–	0	–	1	2	–	0	–	1
North Carolina	3	–	1	–	0	7	–	3	–	0
Tennessee	1	–	1	–	0	4	–	1	–	0
Central	1	–	1	–	0	1	–	1	–	0
Nashville	1	–	1	–	0	1	–	1	–	0
Sewanee	1	–	3	–	1	1	–	3	–	1
Clemson	0	–	2	–	0	2	–	2	–	0
Kentucky	0	–	2	–	0	2	–	4	–	0
Georgia Tech	0	–	1	–	0	0	–	1	–	0
Cumberland	0	–	1	–	0	0	–	1	–	0
Mercer	0	–	1	–	0	0	–	1	–	1
Texas	0	–	0	–	0	6	–	2	–	0
Alabama	0	–	0	–	0	1	–	0	–	0
LSU	0	–	0	–	0	1	–	1	–	0

$ – Conference champion

The 1897 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia during the 1897 college football season. The Bulldogs competed as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) and completed the season with a 2–1 record. In the 1897 season, Georgia beat Georgia Tech for the first time and met both Clemson and Virginia for the first time. This was the Georgia Bulldogs' first season under the guidance of head coach Charles McCarthy.

It was in the Virginia game of 1897 that tragedy struck the Georgia Bulldogs. In the second half of that game, a Georgia fullback named Richard Vonalbade ("Von") Gammon, was fatally injured in a play. In reaction to his death, the Georgia, Georgia Tech and Mercer football teams disbanded, the Atlanta Journal ran a headline proclaiming, the "Death Knell of Football" and the Georgia legislature passed a bill to outlaw football in the state of Georgia. As the bill sat on the desk of Georgia Governor William Yates Atkinson, a letter that Gammon's mother, Rosalind Burns Gammon, had written to the state legislature was revealed. In her letter, she pleaded with the legislators not to pass the bill because her son so loved football. As a result reading her letter, Governor Atkinson vetoed the bill to ban football in Georgia.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
October 9	Clemson	Herty Field • Athens, GA	W 24–0
October 23	Georgia Tech	Herty Field • Athens, GA (Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate)	W 28–0
October 30	Virginia*	Piedmont Park • Atlanta, GA	L 4–17
*Non-conference game. Homecoming.

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References

↑ "Georgia 1897 results". georgiadogs.com. Retrieved 2012-12-14.

Georgia Bulldogs football

Venues	Herty Field (1892–1910) Sanford Field (1911–1928) Sanford Stadium (1929–present)

Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Auburn: Deep South's Oldest Rivalry Clemson Florida Georgia Tech: Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate South Carolina Tennessee Vanderbilt

Culture & lore	All games Hairy Dawg Uga "Glory, Glory" Georgia Redcoat Marching Band First forward pass 1927 Yale game

People	Head coaches Steadman V. Sanford Larry Munson Morgan Blake NFL draftees Starting quarterbacks Statistical leaders

Seasons	1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

National championship seasons in bold

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