After winning three Southeastern Conference championships and making six bowl trips — including the Rose Bowl and two trips to the Orange Bowl — the coming of the fifties was not a good era for the Georgia Bulldogs.
In 1950, the Bulldogs posted a 6-3-3 record which included playing in the Presidential Cup at College Park, Md., where they lost to Texas A&M 40-20. This was the early years of “The Drought,” the eight-year losing streak to Georgia Tech.
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