Miami has opened their 2024 football season with nine straight victories. On November 9, the Canes travel to Atlanta, Georgia to take on the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.
CaneReports continues its stadium tour series featuring the story of the stadiums where the Canes travel to compete.
Bobby Dodd Stadium
Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field is located on the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. It has been home to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, often referred to as the "Ramblin' Wreck", since 1905.
Originally known as Historic Grant Field, the stadium is oldest continuously used on-campus site for college football in the Southern United States, and the oldest in the FBS. The original capacity of the stadium was 5,304 seats.
Today, Dodd Stadium seats 51,913.
Bobby Lee Dodd:
Bobby Lee Dodd was an American college football player and coach, college baseball coach, and college athletics administrator. Dodd starred as quarterback at the University of Tennessee, playing from from 1928 to 1930. He served as the head football coach at Georgia Tech from 1945 to 1966, compiling a record of 165–64–8. He is still the winningest head coach in school history.
His teams won consecutive Southeastern Conference (SEC) title in 1951 and 1952, and his 1952 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team won the 1953 Sugar Bowl.
Dodd was also Georgia Tech's athletic director from 1950 until 1976. All together, Dodd served Georgia Tech 57 years in various capacities.
Dodd was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1959 and a coach in 1993. He is one of four individuals to be so honored, along with Amos Alonzo Stagg, Bowden Wyatt, and Steve Spurrier.
The Miami-Georgia Tech game is scheduled for November 9th at 12:00 p.m. ET. Coverage will be provided by ESPN and WQAM-560.
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source: Wikipedia
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