Auburn at Georgia
Thursday, November 28, 1912 Share
Georgia beat Auburn 12–6. It was their 18th meeting; after it, the series stood even at 5–5–1 in the games on file.
FinalHigh 42°F, low 26°F, 0.44 in. of rain
In the newspapers

The Birmingham age-herald, Alabama, November 29, 1912, page 9
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AUBURN GOES DOWN IN DEFEAT BEFORE GEORGIA’S ONSLAUGHT THORPE TIE STAR IN BROWN DEFEAT Providence. R. T., November 2s.-- James Thorpe. one of the most versa tile Indian athletes ever developed at the government school at Carlisle, Pa, closed his football career In blaze of glory on Andrews field today when tha Indians, principally through their lead- CTS individual play. defeated Brown g to O. Thorpe was in nearly every play. both on the offense and defense, made three of five touchSowns and kicked two goals. His only failure of the day was in his endeavors to kick field goals, which were difficult because os the slippery, snow covered field and wet ball. Brown rushed the ball to within half a yard of the lndians goal line and Penney went over but there was na score because of offside play. over f5, 900 persons sat through the storm and cheered both teams.

The Sentinel=record, November 29, 1912, page 4 (results column)
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FOOTBALL RESULTS. King college, 0; Roanoke. 0, Washington and Lee. 16; A. & M. 6. Davidson 13; Wake Forest, 7. Chattanooga university, IS; United States cavalry, Q. Clemson. o: Georgia Tech, 20 University of Georgia. 12; Auburn |6, Alabama, z Tennessee, 0. Ohio State. 20; Michigan, 35. Notre Dame, 69; Marquette, 0. Bucknell, ‘; Washington and Jeffer son, 22. Pennsylvania State. s7; Pittsburg Lehigh, 29; Franklin and Marshall Lafayette. 1s: Dickinson. 13. Detroit University. 27; Loyolo col lege, 6. Mercer, z: University of Florida, O. University of South Carolina, 26; Citadel. ?. Texas A. & NJ. 27: Baylor, U.. 0. Texas university, AS; Arkansas, c Louisiana. 21 Tulane, 3. University of Virginia, 66; Univer- sity of North Carolina, 0. Georgia Tech 20; Clemson, Q. Carlisle. 32; Brown, 0. Notre Dame. 69; Marquette. c. Pennsylvania, [; Cornell, 2. University of Georgia, 12; Auburn, 6. Colorado, 14; Oklahoma, 2. Vanderbilt, 16 Sewanee, 0. Virginia, 66; North Carolina, Q. Alabama. 2: Tennessee, 0. Florida, 0: Merce4, 0.
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.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Auburn 50% to win. Georgia won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Auburn–Georgia gameOfficially, 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 112 since this game.
| 2026 | Auburn 27, Georgia 24 | |
| 2025 | Georgia 20, Auburn 10 | |
| 2024 | Georgia 31, Auburn 13 | |
| 2023 | Georgia 27, Auburn 20 | |
| 2022 | Georgia 42, Auburn 10 | |
| 2021 | Georgia 34, Auburn 10 |
Around this game
Auburn
- Next gamevs. MercerOct. 4, 1913
- SeasonAuburn in 1912
- ProgramAuburn history and records
Georgia
- Next gamevs. Alabama PresbyterianOct. 4, 1913
- SeasonGeorgia in 1912
- ProgramGeorgia history and records

