Tech High Smithies vs. the Boys' High Purple Hurricanes

I went down a total internet rabbit hole today reading about the history of the City of Atlanta High Schools. Yeah, a tad niche - but I just found it fascinating!
This was my favorite story.

From a July 2006 story from Georgia Trend.

Boys High and Tech High were both Atlanta high schools and both inside the same building, that is now Grady High.

THE ULTIMATE RIVALRY

Boys High and Tech High delighted football fans around the state

Ever heard of a high school football game drawing 20,000 fans or out-drawing University of Georgia games? That's what happened in the 1940s when, next to the Georgia Tech-Georgia game, the old Tech High/Boys' High game was the biggest sports attraction - not only in Atlanta but in the entire state of Georgia.Even

 Georgia's 1942 Rose Bowl team out-drew the Tech High Smithies vs. the Boys' High Purple Hurricanes only when it played the Yellow Jackets in Sanford Stadium and 

Alabama's Crimson Tide in Grant Field.

The Smithies and the Purple Hurricanes usually met the last game of the season and to the victor usually went the Georgia Interscholastic Athletic Association state championship. Most of the games were played on Friday nights at Ponce de Leon Park, home of the Atlanta Crackers baseball team. Fans sat anywhere they could find space - in the grandstand, bleachers, the centerfield bank and on top of the freight trains parked on the railroad tracks behind the right centerfield fence. You think a Masters ticket was tough? It was a breeze compared to a THS-BHS football ticket.

the rest.