The 1893 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the
Georgia Bulldogs
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of the
University of Georgia
, mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things."
, establ ...
during the
1893 college football season
The 1893 college football season was the season of American football played among colleges and universities in the United States during the 1893–94 academic year.
The 1893 Princeton Tigers football team, led by captain Thomas Trenchard, compi ...
. The Bulldogs completed the season with a 2–2–1 record. 1893 saw the Bulldogs play their first games against
Georgia Tech
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, losing 28–6,
Vanderbilt, losing 10–35, and , winning 22–8. The rivalries with Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt continue to the present day, while the last game played against Furman was played in 1950. Today, the game with Georgia Tech is today known as "
Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate
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."
One of the notable players on the team for the 1893 season was
Blanton Winship
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, a law student at Georgia. Winship played
tackle that year only, but went on to become a
military law
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yer, a veteran of both the
Spanish–American War
, partof = the Philippine Revolution, the decolonization of the Americas, and the Cuban War of Independence
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and World War I, the
Judge Advocate General of the
United States Army
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and the
Governor
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of
Puerto Rico
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.
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