The 1893 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the
Georgia Bulldogs
The Georgia Bulldogs are the athletic teams that represent the University of Georgia. The female athletic teams are sometimes referred to as Lady Bulldogs. The Bulldogs compete in NCAA Division I and are members of the Southeastern Conference ( ...
of the
University of Georgia 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, 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."
One of the notable players on the team for the 1893 season was
Blanton Winship, a law student at Georgia. Winship played
tackle
Tackle may refer to:
* In football:
** Tackle (football move), a play in various forms of football
** Tackle (gridiron football position), a position in American football and Canadian football
** Dump tackle, a forceful move in rugby of picking ...
that year only, but went on to become a
military lawyer, a veteran of both the
Spanish–American War and World War I, the
Judge Advocate General of the
United States Army and the
Governor of
Puerto Rico.
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