On the Field

By L. Mitchell Ginn On Jan. 24, 1964, the direction of Georgia Tech athletics and the fortunes of one of the South’s premier collegiate institutions were forever changed. Head football coach and athletic director Bobby Dodd and President Edwin Harrison were at the annual SEC coaches meetings at the Americana Motor Hotel in downtown Atlanta. more

From a young age, Sean Bedford had two passions that were as intense as they were seemingly contradictory. Growing up in Gainesville, Fla., Bedford loved the space program. At age 6 he started building model rockets, launching them and watching them disappear into the sky. A couple of years later he made the first of more

Georgia Tech’s football program will have an indoor practice facility, thanks to a commitment from Mary R. and John F. Brock III, ChE 70, MS ChE 71. An 80,000-square-foot facility will be built on the current site of Rose Bowl Field, Tech’s current practice facility off of Fowler Street. The cost of the facility is more

At the completion of the 2010-11 men’s and women’s basketball seasons, the Alexander Memorial Coliseum will be completely replaced with one significant and highly visible exception: Those characteristic steel girders that have defined the “Thriller Dome” for so many years. A new building on the northeast corner of the Georgia Tech campus, anticipated to cost about $45 million, will be built around the girders. more