Auburn vs. Georgia

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  Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, November 2, 1941, page 23

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  Georgia Victor In Last Seconds 45-Yard Pass to Davis Beats Auburn COLUMBUS, Ga. Nov. /. A story book finish gave Georgia a z to o victory over Auburn today. With the clock ticking away the final seconds Of the game, Georgia had possession of the ball. There was time for one play. The ball was snapped to Frankie Sinkwich and he faded back TO toss a As yard pass TO Lamar Davis The latter caught the ball on Auburn’s 25-yard line, eluded two Tiger tacklers and raced across the goal line for the touchdown. Leo Costa kicked the extra point. The touchdown play was set up when Auburn punted out of bounds on Georgia’s 35-yard line with less than a minute of play remaining.

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.

Officially, Georgia leads 66–⁠56–⁠8; as played, 64–⁠53–⁠6 in the 123 games on file; the official count covers all 130 meetings, counting the 85 since this game.