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<blockquote data-quote="stinger 1957" data-source="post: 808452" data-attributes="member: 1682"><p>A lot of people of the era quietly believed the '51 team was actually better than the '52 team but the '51 had one blemish on it's record, a tie with Duke. I remember the next year the Duke game was considered a really big game and the Jackets went to Durham and handed it to the Devils pretty handily. If I remember correctly, Lum Snyder was one hell of a man/player, but don't think he played on the '52 team, only the '51 team. The two guys that really helped that defense IMO were Morris and Morris LBs, that's not to disparage the other players at all because they were all good, but George Morris from Mississippi and Larry Morris from Decatur were both all Americans while at Tech, Larry went on to play in the NFL, George thought about it, but on the advice of Dean George Griffin decided to get on with a private career. The Money in the NFL wasn't any thing like what we have known in the last 20 years, as a matter of fact most of those NFL players would retire in their Pro cities and get into the Insurance business, stock brokerage etc and do well because of who they were. Just kinda how i remember it, could be off somewhere. </p><p>About Hardeman, Teas, Turner, they were all three outstanding and added to each others games as you can imagine, but my favorite to watch was Hardeman. You would be sitting with a friend and turn and say"how did he do that". They ran the "belly" series and I remember in one game they ran it so well it fooled the referees. They blew the ball dead and Hardeman was downfield running for a touchdown and the Refs thought another back that was tackled inside had the ball.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stinger 1957, post: 808452, member: 1682"] A lot of people of the era quietly believed the '51 team was actually better than the '52 team but the '51 had one blemish on it's record, a tie with Duke. I remember the next year the Duke game was considered a really big game and the Jackets went to Durham and handed it to the Devils pretty handily. If I remember correctly, Lum Snyder was one hell of a man/player, but don't think he played on the '52 team, only the '51 team. The two guys that really helped that defense IMO were Morris and Morris LBs, that's not to disparage the other players at all because they were all good, but George Morris from Mississippi and Larry Morris from Decatur were both all Americans while at Tech, Larry went on to play in the NFL, George thought about it, but on the advice of Dean George Griffin decided to get on with a private career. The Money in the NFL wasn't any thing like what we have known in the last 20 years, as a matter of fact most of those NFL players would retire in their Pro cities and get into the Insurance business, stock brokerage etc and do well because of who they were. Just kinda how i remember it, could be off somewhere. About Hardeman, Teas, Turner, they were all three outstanding and added to each others games as you can imagine, but my favorite to watch was Hardeman. You would be sitting with a friend and turn and say"how did he do that". They ran the "belly" series and I remember in one game they ran it so well it fooled the referees. They blew the ball dead and Hardeman was downfield running for a touchdown and the Refs thought another back that was tackled inside had the ball. [/QUOTE]
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