Dave Collings

David Ayres Collings Jr. (November 4, 1901 – December 8, 1982) was an American college football player. He played four seasons with the Georgia Bulldogs, 1919–1922.

Biography Collings was born in Atlanta in 1901. He attended Boys High School there, and played on the football team.

Collings was a four-year letterman, 1919–1922, for the Georgia Bulldogs. He was primarily a halfback and punter, and was part of the team's "ten second backfield" in 1920. He made a 40-yard drop kick against South Carolina that season, and in the 7–0 defeat of Furman, a punting duel between Collings and Milton McManaway featured throughout. In 1922, Collings started the game against Vanderbilt at quarterback. In recounting his senior season, Georgia's yearbook listed him as an end and quarterback,

In 1924, sportswriter Morgan Blake included Collings as one of the two halfbacks in his selection of the greatest football players from Atlanta.

As of November 1933, Collings was a district manager for The Coca-Cola Company, and he was still employed by the company as of February 1942. Collings died in December 1982.