Was John Heisman an epic D-bag?

Lots of great sports figures were absolute assholes. This isn’t news.

Two sides to every story, heisman also coached baseball Cumberland used pro athletes to beat his baseball 22-0, when he find out they illegally used ringers to skull drag his baseball team he wasn’t letting them off the hook a few months later during football season. He wanted to beat the cheat out of them and did.

Pat Dye was an interesting cat. “I didn’t know what color I was because my dad treated us all the same, LIKE shite”

I understand why he did what he did. I was just bringing it up because I had never heard the stories. The business minded side of him was just as interesting. Atlanta journal Constitution hired him to write a column, paid him by the word. Expected him to write a 200/300 word article. He wrote damn 2000 word essays. He was the originator of TLDR.

I had never heard the story of Auburn greasing the tracks when G Tech was coming to play. Slid past the station by 5 miles. Had to walk back.

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I did not know that the famous skull dragging of Cumberland College happened because they had dropped their football program and Heisman threatened to sue them.

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My dad is a GT alumnus, and this is old news, and false reporting.

The famous skull dragging of Cumberland College happened because Cumberland's baseball team had run up the score on Georgia Tech's unit (a team Heisman also coached) earlier that year, in a very controversial effort.

The Cumberland v GT score was 22–0.
Cumberland also bought professionals to ensure victory against Heisman's BB team. Subsequently,

The 222-0 football score vs 22-0 in baseball was not accidental. The game was apparently called after the final GT pick-six score + PAT rendered the GT score of 222. After that, all parties walked away

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Dude? Are you serious????

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I don’t know the story. I’m just saying the ESPN Doc called it an accusation. Not trying to pick at 90+ year old scabs.

Are you this butt hurt over something that happened 100 years ago? Uncoil brother. It’s not that big a deal. It’s a cool story from the distant past.

I mean....he is a Clemson man, so yeah..