Schedule For Monday, October 2, 2017
On Monday night, October 2nd, the Macon Touchdown Club will welcome Coach Paul Johnson of Georgia Tech as our feature speaker.
Coach Johnson is in his 10th season as football coach at Georgia Tech making him the fourth longest tenured head man on the Flats. No coach since Bobby Dodd, who was on the Yellow Jacket sidelines for 27 years from 1940 until 1966, has been at the helm longer at Grant Field. His record at Tech is 70-48.
His 2009 team won the ACC Championship beating Clemson in the Title game before losing to Iowa in the Orange Bowl 24-14. Last season Tech finished with a 9-4 record which included a win over Kentucky in the Tax Slayer Bowl. Georgia Tech is Johnson’s third head job. He was at Georgia Southern, where he won two NCAA Division l-AA national Championships, from 1997 to 2001 and at Navy from 2002
through the 2007 season posting a 45-29 record including six consecutive wins over Army.
As always, we will meet at The Methodist Home For Children, in The Rumford Center. The address is 304 Pierce Avenue, and the meeting begins at 6:30 pm.
Guest Fee is $30.00, and includes dinner, club activities, recognition of local high school athletes, recognition of a local high school and the speak
