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2019 GT Official Color Debate (formerly Adidas Swag Watch 2019 **
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<blockquote data-quote="Vespidae" data-source="post: 533439" data-attributes="member: 2957"><p>I think you are mostly right. Here's the Blurb from Tech Traditions:</p><p></p><p>The story behind our Yellow Jacket symbol dates back to the early 1900’s when our first athletic teams were fielded. They had yet to choose an official name so sports writers had taken to giving us nicknames such as The Engineers, the Blacksmiths, the Techs, and the Golden Tornadoes, but the school didn’t officially take up any of these names. It was actually actual yellow jackets that our fans wore in support of our team that gave us the name we go by now. The term Yellow Jackets was used to describe our fans, and in 1905, John Heisman declared that he wanted our team to be known as the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vespidae, post: 533439, member: 2957"] I think you are mostly right. Here's the Blurb from Tech Traditions: The story behind our Yellow Jacket symbol dates back to the early 1900’s when our first athletic teams were fielded. They had yet to choose an official name so sports writers had taken to giving us nicknames such as The Engineers, the Blacksmiths, the Techs, and the Golden Tornadoes, but the school didn’t officially take up any of these names. It was actually actual yellow jackets that our fans wore in support of our team that gave us the name we go by now. The term Yellow Jackets was used to describe our fans, and in 1905, John Heisman declared that he wanted our team to be known as the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. [/QUOTE]
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