"[3] [17] Sources:[18] The season opened with a 13–7 defeat of Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) champion Oglethorpe.

[5] A 26-yard pass was caught by Johnny Marshall, and Tech drove down to the 1-yard line when the final quarter started.

With substitutes in the backfield for most of the final period, John Brewer scored a touchdown on another triple pass play,[3] this time from the 6-yard line.

[5] Sources:[20] The third week brought the highlight of the year — a defeat of Hugo Bezdek's previously undefeated Penn State Nittany Lions 16–7 in a howling wind in Yankee Stadium.

[22] Penn State scored first after a punt by Doug Wycoff into the wind gave them the ball at Tech's 30-yard line.

After a fumble recovery,[24] an 80-yard drive utilizing Wycoff and Sam Murray[25] ended in a Carter Barron touchdown for the third score.

[26] Sources:[29] The national champion Alabama Crimson Tide beat Georgia Tech 7–0 on a Johnny Mack Brown punt return for a touchdown.

[30] Sources:[33] Resembling its old form,[34] Knute Rockne's defending national champion Notre Dame Fighting Irish defeated Georgia Tech 13–0.

[33] Sources:[37] Describing the most spectacular play he ever saw, coach William Alexander cites one from the 1925 game against the Vanderbilt Commodores.

On a muddy field, Wright ran off tackle and dodged Vanderbilt's safety Gil Reese, "usually a sure tackler," to get the touchdown with a run to give Tech a 7–0 victory.

[3] A third-quarter field goal by Ike Williams was the only scoring in the game, giving Georgia Tech a 3–0 victory.

[40] Georgia end Smack Thompson would yell out in his sleep, and had said "Kill the SOB" in reference to Doug Wycoff leading up to the game.

[43] Pea Green caught a 9-yard pass from Frank Tuxworth on Auburn's score, after a blocked Wycoff punt.

Wycoff and end Gus Merkle made Billy Evans's "National Honor Roll."

Coach Alexander recalled "The work of Douglas Wycoff against Notre Dame two years in succession was brilliant in the extreme, as was his plunging against Penn.

"[48] Morgan Blake, sports writer for the Atlanta Journal, said of an all-time All-Southern list: "It seems to us that one name is left out in this collection, who may have been the best all-around player the South has had.

If Wycoff had been flanked by such a pair of halfbacks as Red Barron and Buck Flowers, or Thomason and Mizell while he was with the Jackets, he would have been an all-American.