Georgia vs. Auburn

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  The Daily Alaska empire, November 23, 1942, page 5

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  MIGHTY GEORGIA FALLS. 27-t3 TO AUBURN’S LINE Underrafed Team Topples Undefeafed, Rose Bowl Headed Southerners COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 23-One of the seasons few undefeated teams, Georgia, lost to brilliant and underrated Auburn last Satur- day afternoon and the crash of Americas number one football team resounded all the way to Pasa- dena. Some 10000 hysterical fans looked on while the Tigers snatched the Rose Bowl invitation out of Geor- gia’s hip pocket and kicked it all around the stadium. To rout it, Auburn used harder charging line than the Georgia team had seen all season. The final score was Auburn 27, Georgia l3.

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  The daily monitor leader, Mount Clemens, Mich., November 23, 1942, page 1 (results column)

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  Season Moves 10 Conclusion NEW YORK, Nov. 23-(P)- With the Big Ten championship tucked away by Ohio State and the Georgia Bulldogs tucked away by Auburn, this dizzy football season wobbled toward the close this week but what ever happens will be strictly anti-climactic. Conference ch a m p onships still are to be decided In many of the major loops, how ever, and some of them will be at stake in this weeks double barreled program. Then, too, there is that little matter OF filling the New Years Day bowl games with teams that will fill the bowls with customers. In spite of what happened last Saturday, lot of folks are 60 ing to be more than slightly in terested in the southern head liner between unbeaten, united Georgia Tech and a Georgia team that had its dreams of a perfect season and a Rose Bowl lid turned into 27–⁠13 night mare by Auburn. The two teams meet at Athens Saturday and Georgia Tech, winner of eight straight games, could wrap up the southeastern conference title as we’ll as a bowl engagement by winning. Tennessee, VIII ich BANKED Kentucky, $50, meets Wander bilt, a 27–⁠7 lower to Alabama, in another southeastern confer ence game while Alabama tackles Georgia pre-flight, fresh from its TO conquest of Tulane. Auburn battles Clemson and Duke tangles with Jacksonville Naval in other Saturday games in the south. The Thanksgiving Day card finds Tulane engaging L.S.U., the team that trampled Auburn, 25–⁠7, its last time out, South Carolina meeting Wake Forest and William and Mary, beaten for the first time by the North Carolina pre-flighters, l4–⁠0, bid ding for the southern conference title against Richmond. The season ended for the Big Ten last week, so far as cham pionships are concerned, when Ohio State toppled Michigan, 21–⁠7, but one loop tilt remains to be played this week and other teams have dates with service clubs. Michigan and Iowa ring down the conference curtain Saturday. At the same time Ohio State will tangle with the Iowa pre- Fighters, who walloped Nebraska, 46–⁠0, Indiana will meet Fort Knox and Illinois will play Camp Grant. Northwestern, IT 20 loser to Notre Dame, plays Great Lakes Naval Thursday and Purdue closes against Camp Shelby. Notre Dame journeys to Southern California for their annual intersectional joust Saturday. ‘Visconsin’s 20–⁠6 triumph over Minnesota Saturday was the finale for both clubs.

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 84 since this game.