(06-15-2026, 12:25 PM)jacket3ree Wrote: Tech has been the Georgia Institute of Technology since 1948 when it changed its name from the Georgia School of Technology. It is also part of the answer to fairly frequent AFLAC trivia contests during our broadcasts: "What are the five FBS programs without 'University' in their official institutional name."
Boston College
Georgia Institute of Technology
United States Air Force Academy
United States Military Academy
United States Naval Academy
Georgia Tech is also one of the few Universities with three nicknames, Engineers, Yellow Jackets, Ramblin' Wreck. The only other one I can think of is Auburn (Tigers, Plainsmen, War Eagle)
and here's a Stanford song to the music of the Ramblin' Wreck song....
Oh, there's the road to Menlo
As plain, as plain can be.
And if you want to see a wreck
Just take a look at me.
For I have been to Menlo and tasted of the beer;
And that's the reason my eyes are weak
And I had to rest a year.
I wish I had an ocean of rum and sugar a million pound.
The dear old Quad to mix it in.
The chimney to stir it round
I'd drink a toast to the cardinal so glorious and so true,
and join in the rollicking chorus To hell with the Gold and Blue.
https://law.stanford.edu/stanford-lawyer...1910-1911/
Eric
"the older we get the better we were"
