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<blockquote data-quote="mistaben" data-source="post: 433957" data-attributes="member: 248"><p>_____________________________________________</p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px">1917 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team</span></strong></p><p><a href="https://www.revolvy.com/topic/1917-Georgia-Tech-Golden-Tornado-football-team" target="_blank">https://www.revolvy.com/topic/1917-Georgia-Tech-Golden-Tornado-football-team</a></p><p>Footnote 1: Although Georgia Tech's teams are officially known as the "Yellow Jackets", northern writers called the team the "Golden Tornado" in 1917; the name was commonly used until 1928 and for many years afterwards as an alternate nickname.[1] It may have been coined by <a href="https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Morgan+Blake" target="_blank">Morgan Blake</a>.[2]</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>William Morgan Blake</strong> (February, 1889 – July 26, 1953) was an early 20th-century American <a href="https://www.revolvy.com/topic/Sportswriting" target="_blank">sportswriter</a> in the <a href="https://www.revolvy.com/topic/Southern-United-States" target="_blank">South</a> who in his 24 years on the job covered seven <a href="https://www.revolvy.com/topic/Rose-Bowl-game" target="_blank">Rose Bowl games</a>. </p><p>He also taught the south's largest Sunday School class.[1][2]</p><p><a href="https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Morgan+Blake" target="_blank">https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Morgan+Blake</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mistaben, post: 433957, member: 248"] _____________________________________________ [B][SIZE=4]1917 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team[/SIZE][/B] [URL]https://www.revolvy.com/topic/1917-Georgia-Tech-Golden-Tornado-football-team[/URL] Footnote 1: Although Georgia Tech's teams are officially known as the "Yellow Jackets", northern writers called the team the "Golden Tornado" in 1917; the name was commonly used until 1928 and for many years afterwards as an alternate nickname.[1] It may have been coined by [URL='https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Morgan+Blake']Morgan Blake[/URL].[2] [B]William Morgan Blake[/B] (February, 1889 – July 26, 1953) was an early 20th-century American [URL='https://www.revolvy.com/topic/Sportswriting']sportswriter[/URL] in the [URL='https://www.revolvy.com/topic/Southern-United-States']South[/URL] who in his 24 years on the job covered seven [URL='https://www.revolvy.com/topic/Rose-Bowl-game']Rose Bowl games[/URL]. He also taught the south's largest Sunday School class.[1][2] [URL]https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Morgan+Blake[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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