Since the first baseball game waged between Tech and Georgia, there's been hostility. Actually, hostility is a bit mild.
War is a bit mild for that matter.
Our rivalry since then has been kind of tame compared to what caused the split in the previous years. There was manure, continuous fighting, and insults even the fiercest fans today would find excessive and in very poor taste. While much of this was tolerated, to some extent, by the school populations, the final split occurred at a 1919 baseball game, where Georgia's yearly parade made the point that, while a patriotic Georgia was fighting in France, a cowardly Tech was playing football in Atlanta. The insult was too much for the Tech community, and all athletic ties were severed. As is expected from major schools confined in the same state, neither wants to bow down in combat to the other.