An Historic Football Matchup Between Two Teams:

The year was 1895. The setting, a big open field in Atlanta most likely the turf at where Piedmont Park is now located. The occasion, an old gridiron match up between two state universities.. Georgia vs. North Carolina.

The players donning their leather caps for helmets, some woolen fabric uniforms and a ball truly made of newly tanned pigskin. The UGA vs. UNC football game that year was played seven years prior to the forward pass being allowed as part of offensive strategy in the game of football.

For most of the game on that long ago, century old match-up, the teams were looking rather bleak with a score of 0-0 through much of the contest. Then allegedly according to historical accounts, Georgia was faced with a punt situation.

The Bulldog's kicker sent the ball soaring through the air. The aggression and/or imminent stampede down the field of the kicking team spurned fear upon the TarHeel player who was set to receive the football. In what was a loose tactic of desperation in preventing a smothering of tacklers from pouncing upon the punt receiver(before anything such as a fair catch rule had been introduced), the UNC player flung the football into the air in order to avert the melee of swarming tacklers. A North Carolina teammate caught the ball mid air and proceeded to run with the football to the other end of the field to score a touchdown.

The coach and the players on Georgia's sideline protested to the referee that the desperate throw of the ball into the air was a forward lateral and should therefore be ruled a penalty and nullify the 6 point touchdown. But the official claimed to have not seen the infraction and the touchdown remained.

The tarheels held onto their lead for the remainder of the game. That match-up went into the annuls as one of the first ever games player between these two state universities. They would subsequently go on to maintain regular meetings against one another for decades to come. Atleast every few years, UGA and UNC played against one another on a Home and Away basis until the mid 1960’s when then UGA coach Vince Dooley’s brother Bill Dooley went on to take the head coaching position for the Tarheels. The younger Dooley didn’t see any advantage in continuing a regularly scheduled match-up against the consistently tougher and more talented Georgia Bulldog squad, so the rivalry ceased to be played on a regular basis.

The two teams have played one another 30 times with a historical win/loss record of 16-12-2 in favor of the UGA. The last time that these two teams played one another was 1971 at the Gator Bowl.

But here again taking place in Atlanta during the year 2016, the same two teams are set to match-up in what should prove to be a strong battle between two teams with much to gain from a win over their season opening opponent. Hunker Down Dawgs!

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