Stadium Stories: Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

Thrilling victories, crushing defeats, comical mishaps, and colorful coaches, players, and fans—these are the legendary moments and larger-than-life personalities that have made the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets a gridiron favorite.
In Stadium Stories: Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, journalist Adam Van Brimmer shares his favorite memories of this beloved team. Together you’ll relive the highs and lows and become reacquainted with some of the team’s all-time greatest heroes and legends, including:

John Heisman, visionary coach of the early 1900s and namesake of the prestigious Heisman Trophy

Roy “Wrong Way” Riegels, a UCLA player who unwittingly earned a place in Yellow Jackets football history

The marvelous, magical 1990 national championship season

Georgia Tech’s annual bloodletting battles with the Georgia Bulldogs

Sportswriter Adam Van Brimmer takes Georgia Tech fans through the highs and lows of Yellow Jacket football in this book of stories, photos, and anecdotes

 

Adam Van Brimmer has been a college football beat writer since the mid-1990s, spending much of that time covering the Ohio State Buckeyes in his hometown of Columbus. He has been on the Georgia Tech beat for the past two seasons for the Morris Communications news bureau in Atlanta.