Dave Collings
{{short description|American football player}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{for|the English actor|David Collings}}
{{Infobox college football player
|name = Dave Collings
|image = Dave Collings.png
|image_size = 150px
|caption = Collings, {{circa}} 1922
|birth_date = {{birth date|1901|11|04|mf=y}}
|birth_place = Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
|death_date = {{death date and age |1982|12|08|1901|11|04|mf=y}}
|death_place =
|pastschools = Georgia (1919–1922)
|currentnumber = 5
|highschool = Boys High School (Atlanta)
|highlights=
- SIAA Championship (1920, 1921)
|school=Georgia Bulldogs}}
David Ayres Collings Jr.{{efn|His middle name appears in some sources as "Ayers".}} (November 4, 1901 – December 8, 1982) was an American college football player. He played four seasons with the Georgia Bulldogs, 1919–1922.{{cite web |url=https://georgiadogs.com/news/2006/6/24/All_Time_Georgia_Football_Lettermen |title=All-Time Georgia Football Lettermen |website=georgiadogs.com |date=July 24, 2006 |accessdate=September 9, 2024}}
Biography
Collings was born in Atlanta in 1901.{{cite web |url=https://www.fold3.com/image/646806457/ |title=Draft Registration Card |agency=Selective Service System |date=February 1942 |website=fold3.com |url-access=subscription |accessdate=September 9, 2024}} He attended Boys High School there,{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-atlanta-journal-dave-collings-to-ent/154942990/ |title=Dave Collings To Enter Ga. Tech |newspaper=The Atlanta Journal |page=9 |date=December 2, 1918 |accessdate=September 9, 2024 |via=newspapers.com}} and played on the football team.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-atlanta-journal-boys-high-football-t/154992981/ |title=Boys High Football Team |newspaper=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |page=44 (Magazine) |date=March 2, 1958 |accessdate=September 9, 2024 |via=newspapers.com |quote=Boys High Football Team just before being defeated, 7-6, by Tech High in November 1917}}
Collings was a four-year letterman, 1919–1922, for the Georgia Bulldogs.{{cite magazine |url=https://issuu.com/georgiadogs/docs/24fb_media_guide |magazine=Georgia Football Media Guide |publisher=Georgia Bulldog Athletics |year=2024 |title=All-Time Lettermen |page=135 |accessdate=September 9, 2024 |via=issuu.com}} He was primarily a halfback and punter, and was part of the team's "ten second backfield"{{efn|The term "ten second backfield" generally refers to players capable (or thought to be capable) of running a 100-yard dash in 10 seconds—that is, fast runners.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-cincinnati-post-advent-has-ten-secon/154994972/ |title=Advent has ten-second backfield |newspaper=The Cincinnati Post |page=6 |date=November 11, 1913 |accessdate=September 9, 2024 |via=newspapers.com}}}} in 1920. He made a 40-yard drop kick against South Carolina that season,{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LdDCq3ybJPwC&pg=PA29 | title=About Them Dawgs!: Georgia Football's Memorable Teams and Players| isbn=9780810860407| last1=Garbin| first1=Patrick| year=2008 |via=Google Books}} and in the 7–0 defeat of Furman, a punting duel between Collings and Milton McManaway featured throughout.{{cite news|url=http://redandblack.libs.uga.edu/xtf/view?docId=news/1920/rab1920-0140.xml&query=&brand=rab-brand|page=8|title=Ga. Barely Overcome Furman Crew|date=October 22, 1920|work=The Red and Black}} In 1922, Collings started the game against Vanderbilt at quarterback.{{cite news|work=Athens Banner|date=November 18, 1922|title=Mulvihill Out As Georgia Goes To Battle With Vandy|url=http://athnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/athnewspapers-j2k/view?docId=bookreader/adb/adb1922/adb1922-2537.mets.xml#page/1/mode/1up|access-date=May 24, 2016|archive-date=February 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204193847/http://athnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/athnewspapers-j2k/view?docId=bookreader/adb/adb1922/adb1922-2537.mets.xml#page/1/mode/1up|url-status=dead}} In recounting his senior season, Georgia's yearbook listed him as an end and quarterback,{{rp|301}} and noted that he "rounded out his four years as a varsity back in a bright red cloak of glory."{{rp|309}} He was a member of Chi Phi fraternity.{{cite book |url=https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_pandora_pand1923 |title=Pandora |year=1923 |publisher=University of Georgia |via=usg.edu |accessdate=September 9, 2024}}{{rp|163}}
In 1924, sportswriter Morgan Blake included Collings as one of the two halfbacks in his selection of the greatest football players from Atlanta.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/nashville-banner-the-sport-aerial-colum/154989498/ |title=The Sport Aerial (column) |first=R. E. |last=McGill |newspaper=Nashville Banner |page=13 |date=December 30, 2024 |accessdate=September 9, 2024 |via=newspapers.com}}
As of November 1933, Collings was a district manager for The Coca-Cola Company,{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-guthrie-daily-leader-riding-roundup/154990244/ |title=Riding Roundup (column) |first=Gerald |last=Curtin |newspaper=The Guthrie Daily Leader |location=Guthrie, Oklahoma |page=6 |date=November 15, 1933 |accessdate=September 9, 2024 |via=newspapers.com}} and he was still employed by the company as of February 1942. He apparently spent several years in the late 1930s living in Dallas.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-atlanta-constitution-personals/154990722/ |title=Personals |newspaper=The Atlanta Constitution |page=21 |date=December 20, 1939 |accessdate=September 9, 2024 |via=newspapers.com}} Collings died in December 1982.{{cite web |url=https://www.fold3.com/record/59990588/david-collings-us-social-security-death-index |title=Social Security Death Index |agency=Social Security Administration |website=fold3.com |url-access=subscription |accessdate=September 9, 2024}}
Notes
{{notelist}}
References
{{reflist|30em}}
{{1920 Georgia Bulldogs football navbox}}
{{Georgia Bulldogs quarterback navbox}}
Category:Players of American football from Atlanta
Category:American football halfbacks