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During the train ride home, the men talked a little too casually. They were in a Pullman car traveling from Atlanta to Washington from Saturday evening to Sunday morning, and when they had done their work they thought they could talk freely. And so they talked… very freely.

The day before, November 2, 1907, the Georgia football team lost 10-6 to Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Now on the northbound train were three men who had taken part in that game and who were definitely not enrolled in any of the schools. Four days later, one of their fellow passengers, FL Ingram, sent a letter to Georgia – and several newspapers – about what he heard:

“Two of them were players on the Georgetown team living in or near Washington, DC, and the third, with whom I traveled as far as Winston-Salem, NC, stated that two of the party were not affiliated in any way. away with the University of Athens, but were paid $150.00 in cash, and their travel expenses to get to Atlanta to play Georgia in Saturday afternoon’s game.

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