This picture shows Georgia Tech's Grant Field on Homecoming Day of 1966. Grant Field had been renamed to Boddy Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field in 1988.In the pictures the spectators of the football game are all white males. It shows how the South was still segregated back on the days. Also no female is shown in the picture. Georgia Tech first admitted African-American students in September 1961 with the enrollment of three black students. So still there was not many African-American students five years later.
It also shows the popularity of football, the favorite sport of the South. Georgia Tech was quick in developing football program and built the stadium quickly and started became one of the team in NCAA Division I. The stadium is the oldest staidum among NCAA Division I-A football stadiums. There are only two other stadiums that are older than Bobby Dodd Stadium in entire NCAA Division I.
