Ole Miss at Alabama

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  Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, Mississippi, October 16, 1919, page 2

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  OLE MISS DEFEATED BY u. OF ALABAMA TEAM WAS OUTCLASSED Red and Blue Goes Down Fighting Gamely Before the U. of A. Jug gernaut at Tuscaloosa. Saturday was the day before Columbus Day and it was also the day that the Ole Miss eleven ran up against the chin red line” of the U. of A. AS everyone knew at ten o’clock Saturday night the score was 1910. 10 one who does not know the truth of the matter, this looks looks like an overwhelming and disgraceful defeat of Ole Miss but any one who stops and thinks moment can readily see the reason for this. In order to hold it’s own in college football a team must have weight as well as speed. It is this essential that we lack. The little handful of men who went from here to uphold our honor on the

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Officially, Alabama leads 52–⁠9–⁠2; as played, 56–⁠9–⁠2 in 67 meetings, counting the 59 since this game.