Football (not soccer) is an American favorite sport, going back to late 1869! In all the games they’ve played, there may have been some gigantic lopsided victories. But can you guess the biggest? 0-20? 0-50? 0-100?

Well, you’re close…

Try 0-222.

On October 7, 1916, the Cumberland College Bulldogs, from Lebanon, Tennessee, went up against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets from Atlanta, played at the Yellow Jackets’ home stadium, Grant Field. John Heisman, the pioneer of football, John Heisman, lost his Georgia Tech team to the Bulldogs earlier that year and was looking to avenge that game.

So, they matched, and Cumberland went down horribly.

Cumberland failed to achieve a first down, with 94% of the plays occurring in their part of the field, and 64% in the ‘red zone’. This may have been that they got their baseball coach to recruit some of his fraternity brothers because Cumberland had ended their sports program the year before, but still had to play Tech. Tech had scored a plethora of touchdowns and had a whopping 126 by halftime. By the end, Tech had 222, Cumberland nothing (though at the 40th reunion of the event, someone noted that the score could’ve been 0-229 had they punted normally on one play instead of running a sneak).

In the end, the game went down as an astounding win/defeat for either college, and there have rarely been more games scoring over 100.

This is an example of how you must prepare for incidents like these, even if you can’t go back. And don’t recruit frat brothers to play a sport! (unless absolutely necessary)