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Despite receiving the opening kickoff, Cumberland never achieved a [[first down]] in the entire match and opted to [[punt (gridiron football)|punt]] on multiple possessions; the game's infamous score can be partially attributed to 97 percent of the game's plays occurring in Cumberland territory, with 64 of those plays occurring in its [[Red zone (gridiron football)|red zone]]. Georgia Tech, instigated by Heisman, scored on every first down it gained. The imbalance of the teams was so severe that the final two quarters were shortened from their customary 15 minutes to 12 minutes.
This would be the last matchup of any sport between the two schools; Cumberland deemphasized athletics in favor of academic pursuits, while Georgia Tech has continued to compete at the highest level of college sports. Current [[National Collegiate Athletics Association]] (NCAA) rules preclude a rematch of this game. After World War II,{{citation needed|date=October 2023}} it became regarded as [[Unsportsmanlike conduct|unsportsmanlike]] to deliberately [[Running up the score|run up the score]] to such high numbers, meaning that [[List of 100-point games in college football|college football games of more than 100 points]] have been infrequent since the 1940s.
==Background==
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Georgia Tech scored a total of 32 touchdowns, and Georgia Tech's left end James Preas kicked 18 [[point after touchdown|extra points]].<ref name= wp1916>{{cite news|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/145495409/ |title=Makes a Record Score|newspaper=The Washington Post |date=October 8, 1916|page=S3}}</ref> Cumberland's only effective defense was an extra point blocked with a sort of [[Pyramid Play|human pyramid]] known as the "climb-the-ladder" play, topped with Vichy Woods, who suffered a gruesome facial injury on the play.<ref name=dropped/> Despite scoring 32 touchdowns, the Engineers did not complete or attempt a [[forward pass]]; all their yardage came on rushes, returns or defensive plays.
Several myths have developed around the game. Some have written that Cumberland did not have a single play that gained yards; in fact, its longest play was a 10-yard pass (on 4th-and-22<ref name="nyt"/><ref name="dropped"/> or 3rd-and-18<ref name="pbp"/>). The Bulldogs gained positive yardage on at least six plays, though they fumbled on two of them. One page on Cumberland's website says Georgia Tech scored on every offensive play, but the play-by-play account of the game refutes this and suggests a more likely scenario: that Georgia Tech scored on every one of its sets of downs.
Cumberland purportedly committed 15 [[Turnover (football)|turnovers]]—nine fumbles and six [[interception]]s—during the game.
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== Records ==
Prior to the match, the record for a highest score in a football match was a 159–0 score by Newberry against BMI made in 1913, while the highest score in a college game was 144–0 by the [[1913 Florida Gators football team|Florida Gators]] against [[Florida Southern]] also in 1913. In the preceding 45 years of college football, only 36 games had exceeded 100 points, and only seven those were against teams also from a college.<ref name="pbp"/>
Since World War II, only a [[List of 100-point games in college football|handful of schools have topped 100 points]] in a college football game. The modern-era record for most points scored against a college opponent is 106 by [[Fort Valley State University|Fort Valley State]] of [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] against [[Knoxville College]] in 1969. In the previous year [[Houston Cougars|Houston]] defeated [[Tulsa Golden Hurricane|Tulsa]] 100–6 to set the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] record in major college football. In 1949 the [[University of Wyoming]] defeated [[University of Northern Colorado]] 103–0. The Division III football scoring record was set in 1968 when [[North Park University]] defeated [[North Central College]] 104–32, using ten passing touchdowns along the way.<ref name="northcentralcollege.edu">North Central College Football Record Book ({{cite web |url=http://northcentralcollege.edu/Documents/athletics/fb_record_book.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-10-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307203748/http://northcentralcollege.edu/Documents/athletics/fb_record_book.pdf |archive-date=7 March 2012 |df=dmy-all }}).</ref>
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