🏈 the "Greased Rails" story

[LBS]

Can someone remind me of the details surrounding the old story where fans of one team greased the rails leading into town resulting in the train bringing the opponent to skid a half mile past the station?

When was this and which teams were involved?

 

[TerryP]

what's up with the font? :lol:

 

[rolltide1969]

From Google:

My favorite tradition from college (I went to Auburn) is the wreck teck pajama parade. Here is the story according to the Auburn Alumni Page:
The legend that gave birth to the parade has its roots in Auburn’s first ever home football game – against <nobr style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; color: darkgreen;" id="itxt_nobr_3_0">Georgia</nobr> Tech in 1896. It was a day when football teams traveled by train and the Tech team was scheduled to arrive at the Auburn station, located between North Gay and College streets, early in the morning of Nov. 7.
Several members of Auburn’s corps of cadets, knowing the Yellow Jackets’ travel schedule, arose in the middle of the night and walked to the station in their pajamas. The cadets, armed with grease and lard, applied a thick coating to about a quarter-mile of rails leading into and out of the Auburn station, then returned to their beds.
According to the legend, the next morning the train carrying the Tech football squad could get no traction when it tried to brake for the Auburn station and slid halfway to Loachapoka, some five miles away. The Yellow Jacket contingent was forced to walk back to Auburn, where Auburn whipped them that afternoon, 45-0.
In the years that followed, it became tradition for students to gather at the station in their pajamas the night prior to the Tech game – not to grease the tracks, but for a pep rally instead.

 

[LBS]

Getting old here Terry. Larger, more easy to read fonts are good for me. I suppose thats why they created them.

 

[TerryP]

:laughcry:

Getting old here Terry. Larger, more easy to read fonts are good for me. I suppose thats why they created them.