The 1900 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the

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of the

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during the 1900 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The Bulldogs competed as a member of the

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(SIAA) and completed the season with a 2–4 record; no improvement at all over the previous year's mark under coach

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(2–3–1). Although the season started well with back-to-back victories, including Georgia's fourth straight victory over

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, it ended with four consecutive losses. In fact, Georgia was outscored 99–0 in the last two games of the season at the hands of

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and

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. Matters were not helped by the fact that Georgia only had three starting players return to the team from the 1899 team. One of the star players on the 1900 team was a young man who weighed only 110 pounds, but made up for his lack of size with skill, speed, agility and leadership skills. A notable player from the 1900 season was

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. Hirsch played for Georgia during the 1900 and 1901 seasons and later became an influential attorney. In 1932, the

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moved into a building called the Harold Hirsch Law Building, named for Hirsch.

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Additional sources

* Reed, Thomas Walter (1949). Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. ''History of the University of Georgia; Chapter XVII: Athletics at the University from the Beginning Through 1947'
imprint pages 3464-3465

Harold Hirsch profile

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