Irish Caesar
Yellow Jacket
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The grassy place to sit seems rather awesome. Unless, of course, it has rained recently...
I understand the car, but not the yellow jacket!
There are actually several theories as to why Georgia Tech is associated with the "ramblin' wreck," and nobody really knows which is true...
One explanation is that engineers from Georgia Tech often went to other parts of the world after graduation, namely to South America, where they would build machinery which the locals referred to as "ramblin' wrecks." Not sure how true this is, but it would have had to be ~1900.
The fight song first appeared in 1908, which declares, "I'm a Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech and a hell of an engineer..."
Sometime after this, one of Tech's deans (Floyd Field) would drive around campus in an old (1914, I think) Ford Model T, which the students dubbed the "ramblin' wreck."
Years after that, the administration decided that the school needed an actual official wreck due in part to the student body's fascination with old cars. The current Ramblin' Wreck has driven out on the field at every football game since 1961.
As for Buzz...
Georgia Tech's teams in the late 1800's and early 1900's were called various names by the Atlanta newspapers, including the Engineers, the Blacksmiths, and the Golden Tornado. We were first called the Yellow Jackets around 1903; the nickname was given to us because Tech fans would go to University of Georgia games to pull against Georgia. As Georgia's colors were red and black, Tech fans chose the colors white and gold to be most visible in crowds so that we could be as clearly as possible pulling against the Dawgs. We litereally showed up in yellow jackets (and still wear them from time to time, but yellow pants are much more popular--I don't own a pair at the time being, but might consider it if I was to be attending a game with someone in a yellow sundress. It's apparently a Southern thing). Buzz's first appearance was not until the 1970's, when a student decided that we needed a mascot besides the wreck.
The grassy place to sit seems rather awesome. Unless, of course, it has rained recently...
I understand the car, but not the yellow jacket!
There are actually several theories as to why Georgia Tech is associated with the "ramblin' wreck," and nobody really knows which is true...
One explanation is that engineers from Georgia Tech often went to other parts of the world after graduation, namely to South America, where they would build machinery which the locals referred to as "ramblin' wrecks." Not sure how true this is, but it would have had to be ~1900.
The fight song first appeared in 1908, which declares, "I'm a Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech and a hell of an engineer..."
Sometime after this, one of Tech's deans (Floyd Field) would drive around campus in an old (1914, I think) Ford Model T, which the students dubbed the "ramblin' wreck."
Years after that, the administration decided that the school needed an actual official wreck due in part to the student body's fascination with old cars. The current Ramblin' Wreck has driven out on the field at every football game since 1961.
As for Buzz...
Georgia Tech's teams in the late 1800's and early 1900's were called various names by the Atlanta newspapers, including the Engineers, the Blacksmiths, and the Golden Tornado. We were first called the Yellow Jackets around 1903; the nickname was given to us because Tech fans would go to University of Georgia games to pull against Georgia. As Georgia's colors were red and black, Tech fans chose the colors white and gold to be most visible in crowds so that we could be as clearly as possible pulling against the Dawgs. We litereally showed up in yellow jackets (and still wear them from time to time, but yellow pants are much more popular--I don't own a pair at the time being, but might consider it if I was to be attending a game with someone in a yellow sundress. It's apparently a Southern thing). Buzz's first appearance was not until the 1970's, when a student decided that we needed a mascot besides the wreck.
