George M. King
{{Short description|American football player (1896–1963)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox college football player
|name=George M. King
|birth_date={{Birth date|1896|6|21}}
|birth_place=Bristol, Tennessee, US
|death_date=1963
|school=Davidson Wildcats
|currentposition=End
|class=Graduate
|pastschools=Davidson (1917)
|highlights=
- All-Southern (1917)
- Davidson Athletics Hall of Fame
}}
George Millard King (June 21, 1896 – 1963) was an American college football player. He was president of King Brothers Shoe Co. in Bristol, Tennessee until his death in 1963. He was a member of the Davidson College Board of Trustees and was President of the Davidson College Alumni Association in 1954–55.
Davidson
=1917=
He King captain of the team in 1917, a year in which he was selected All-Southern.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/officialfootball19181nati#page/n27/mode/2up/search/%22all-southern%22|title=Spalding Football Guide|date=1918|publisher=Shawnee Mission, Kansas, NCAA Publishing Service}} Of the Georgia Tech team, the first national champion from the South and for many years considered the greatest football team the South ever produced,{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/creatingbiggamej00umph|url-access=registration|title=Creating The Big Game|author=Wiley Lee Umphlett|page=[https://archive.org/details/creatingbiggamej00umph/page/141 141]|date=1992|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=0313284040}} whose closest game was a 32 to 10 victory over Davidson, King said “I consider Georgia Tech the best football team I have ever played against or ever expect to play against.”(16 November 2010) In "Technique Newsletter Volume 07, Issue 11." Retrieved November 16, from http://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/26083 One description reads "King's catch of a pass in the Georgia Tech game, with a gallop for a touchdown, was almost miraculous".{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2012231//|work=The Washington Times|title=Georgetown Lands Four Players On All-South Atlantic Team For '17|via=Newspapers.com|date=December 3, 1917|accessdate=March 18, 2015|page=15}} {{Open access}} King participated in one of the great upsets in Southern football history as the Wildcats bested the Auburn Tigers 21–7.{{cite news|work=Atlanta Constitution|author=Dick Jemison|author-link=Dick Jemison|date=November 11, 1917|title=Ralph Flowers, Demon Halfback, Defeats Auburn|via=Newspapers.com}} [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1960613// Part 1] [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1960647/flowers2/ Part 2] {{Open access}} King scored one touchdown off a muffed punt, and would've had another on a pass reception had he not fumbled the ball out of the endzone. As Auburn was considered second best in the south at the time, some would call Davidson the second best southern team that year.{{cite journal|url=http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv01/CFHSNv01n3a.pdf |title=Georgia Tech's 1917 backfield, better than the Four Horsemen Part 1 |journal=College Football Historical Society |volume=1 |number=3 |date=February 1988 |author=Bernie McCarty |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304120719/http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv01/CFHSNv01n3a.pdf |archivedate=March 4, 2016 }} H. M. Grey and a young Buck Flowers were Davidson teammates.