[1] The Techs, as the local papers referred to the team,[2] finished with a record of 2–1–0, including against Georgia in the first iteration of the rivalry that would become known as Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate.

[2] As football uniforms were still in a primitive state at that time, there was little padding besides a leather nose cover and players would grow their hair out to cushion their heads against thrown objects or the hard clay.

With wins over in-state rivals Georgia and Mercer (avenging its 1892 loss), the season was considered memorable.

[5][6] Fans created a standard cheer to be yelled out during the game:[7] During the 40th anniversary of the season, a memorial plaque honoring Wood, a Medal of Honor recipient who later became U.S. Army Chief of Staff and governor of Cuba and the Philippines, was unveiled on Grant Field on November 25, 1933.

The Georgia Tech students engaged a special train to take the fans to Athens and sold round-trip tickets to the game for $2.20.

No lives were lost, but the passengers, including future Georgia Tech President, Lyman Hall, did not make it back into Atlanta until after midnight.

[13] The game was played on the Alumni Athletic Field at the Georgia campus and began at 3:15 p.m.. Only thirty minute halves were used.

Butler said that "my guard was so humiliated at his inability to stop Wood that I could never get him to don a uniform again; he quit football thereafter and declined to have his picture taken with the squad.

[8][4] Following the game, the Atlanta paper advised that any team playing against Georgia in Athens should bring a police detachment for protection.

[8] Nevertheless, in a showing of good sportsmanship, Butler led the Bulldogs in a cheer for Georgia Tech's victory.

During Tech's ensuing drive, time was called with the ball on the Saint Albans' twenty-five yard line.

It was later discovered that the Saint Albans' quarterback McGuire had broken his leg during the game but had continued to play to the finish.

[10] Georgia Tech opened the game in a wedge formation and concentrated rushing up the center, scoring a touchdown on its first drive.

[10] For the first few drives of the second half, neither team was able to make much progress, though Mercer's push through the center finally advanced deep into Tech's territory towards the end of the game.