Mercer at Georgia

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  Evening star, September 27, 1936, page 24

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  RAGGED GEORGIA WINS Unimpressive as It Overcomes Mercer. Is to 6, Mercer, 10 TO D. ATHENS, Ga, September 2s R.- Flow and uncertain in the operation of their new offense, the Georgia Bull dogs blundered to a 15-to-6 victory over MERGERS Bears today in the in auguration of the 1886 season. Approximately 5000 fans saw the Bull dogs win after a ragged exhibition. Although putting together two drives that netted touchdowns in the first half, the Georgians muddled many plays.

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  The Nome daily nugget, Alaska, September 28, 1936, page 3 (results column)

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  U. S. FOOTBALL SCORES (By The Associated PressD Minnesota IA Washington 2 Montana 0 Washington State 19 Santa Clara 13 Stanford 0 Bates 0 Holy Cross 45 Colgate 0 Duke 6 William & Mary 6 Navy l8 DePaul 6 Illinois g Mercer 6 Georgia 15 South Dakota State 2 Wisconsin 24 Ohio U 0 Purdue AT Carleton 0 Iowa IA Ohio Wesleyan 0 Pitt 53 Lehigh Is Case 2 Mississippi 6 Tulane 2 N Tex. Teach. 0 South. Meth. 6 Oregon State 2 U s C 38

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Georgia leads 21–⁠0 in 21 meetings, counting the four since this game.