The top game of the week for 40,000 Atlanta fans and millions of televiewers matched the undefeated engineers of Georgia Tech, the nation's No. 2 team, and the Crimson Tide of Alabama, No. 12; for a while at the start, a 200-proof shocker of an upset seemed in the making. Aroused Alabama, threatening time & again, scored a first-period field goal and kept the vaunted Tech attack bottled up.
Not until the second period did the sputtering Georgia Tech offense, handicapped by the loss of injured Star Halfback Leon Hardeman, finally get untracked. With...
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