Tackle Bill Fincher made Walter Camp's first-team All-American, then just the fourth Southern player to do so.

Captain and senior halfback Buck Flowers made some third-team All-America selections, and led the country with an average of 49.4 yards per punt.

[n 2] New head coach William Alexander retained Heisman's scheme, using the pre-snap movement of his "jump shift" offense.

The team's most prominent players were in the backfield, including senior captain and halfback Buck Flowers, a small back who also handled drop kicks and punting.

Fincher had a glass eye which he would covertly pull out after feigning an injury, turn to his opponents and say: "So that's how you want to play!

[16] Sources:[17] In the second week of play, Georgia Tech defeated Jogger Elcock's Oglethorpe Stormy Petrels 55 to 0.

He got his start on a "criss-cross" play near his own 32-yard line, and ran for the touchdown crossing the field laterally many times showing an assortment of moves.

[23] Its ends were easily skirted by the Tech backs Buck Flowers, Red Barron, and Frank Ferst.

In the fourth quarter, a fight broke out involving Gink Hendrick, some Tech players, and spectators.

[30] Sources:[31] The Golden Tornado suffered its only loss at the hands of Pop Warner's Pittsburgh Panthers at Forbes Field by a score of 10 to 3.

[11][n 6] Tech halfback Red Barron played with a broken jaw suffered during the Vanderbilt game.

[8] Pitt fullback Orville "Tiny" Hewitt injured Tech quarterback Jack McDonough's ankle,[10] and Frank Ferst had to take his place for the rest of the season.

[31] Flowers' performance against Pitt caused Grantland Rice to call him one of the best broken field runners in the country.

[n 7] A story goes that tackle Bill Fincher sought to knock Centre quarterback "Bo" McMillin out of the game, taking with him brass-knuckles or "something equally diabolical.

"[37] Red Barron starred in the game, including a 57-yard touchdown run: "twisting and dodging through the desperate Centre secondary.

"[38] The Atlanta Constitution reported: "McMillin's forward passes outdid anything of the kind seen here in many years, but Tech seemed to know where they were going.

[35] Sources:[39] Coach Alexander rested his starters for the game against the Clemson Tigers and played substitutes throughout: "to teach the gamblers and point-makers a lesson.

[39] End Georgie Ratterman was under treatment by a stomach specialist as the result of trouble supposedly caused by over-exertion during his confinement in a German prison during World War I.

[41] The Tigers had a powerful eleven, which beat Vanderbilt 56 to 6 to counter Tech's 44 to 0 win, and set a school record with 332 points in nine games.

"[43] The yearbook remarked Bill Fincher: "began his great work on the sand lots of Tech Hi here in Atlanta years ago and ended it up by smearing "Fatty" Warren of the Auburn Tigers all over the flats of Grant Field on Turkey Day last.

[49] He also led the country with an average of 49.4 yards per punt;[6] and had a school record for number of drop kicked field goals.

[8] The following chart provides a visual depiction of Tech's lineup during the 1920 season with games started at the position reflected in parentheses.