My grandparents' 1961 Gator Bowl trip, part 3 of 3

This footage is from my grandparents' 1961 trip starting in Jekyll Island and ending in Jacksonville, Florida where they watched Georgia Tech and Penn State play in the Gator Bowl on December 30, 1961. Penn State won 30-15.

To give you an idea of how long ago 1961 is in football years:

* Joe Paterno was still an assistant coach for Penn State. It would be another four years before he was named head coach.

* Georgia Tech was coached by Bobby Dodd, and was still a member of the SEC. It would be another three years before Tech defected from the SEC due to Dodd's dispute with Alabama coach Bear Bryant.

I've broken a single 400-foot reel of 8mm film into three parts due to YouTube's 10-minute limit on uploads:

Part 1 (6:53)

The trip down. This might be boring to you, but it was interesting to me. Lots of footage of roadside signs, old cars, and what a lot of locales between Jeckyll Island and Jacksonville (Camden, Georgia is the one I could recognize by name, but there were others) looked like at the time.

Part 2 (9:15)

Pre-game show and 1st half

Part 3 (7:48)

Halftime show, 2nd half, fans' exit

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actually something worth watching on youtube