Texas at Oklahoma
Saturday, October 18, 1919 Share
Oklahoma beat Texas 12–7. It was their 21st meeting; after it, Texas led the series 9–8–1 in the games on file.
Final
In the newspapers

The Morning Tulsa daily world, Tulsa, Okla., October 19, 1919, page 25
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OKLAHOMA WINS FROM TEXAS u. Sooners Force Texans on Defense From Start; Open Football Played. TEXAS RESORTS TO PASSING Frantic Efforts of Longhorns to Win in Final Period Unavailing. DALLAS. Texas. oct. Forcing the University of Texas into q betensive fight at the start, the Uniyersity OF Oklahoma football eleven triubhed over the Ionghorns, H. To z In q southwestern conference snme at the state fair hero today. Marked principally by open style play much puntinE. several serious fumbleu and considerable Ineffective forward passing, the contest produced little sensational individual work. although the consistent work OF several performers on each team counted vithlly at crucial times 3 Defense strong. Neither team showed an attack that compared with its dsfenae Ia the first two periods and In ths re suliant puniing exchanges the hon nrs were about even between swatsk and Mccallum. Tho last half. espe~ elaily tho finai period, found Texas resoriifh 10 repeated forward pass ing In frantic but unsuccessful effort TO win. In the second period. Texas re gained the ball on an intercepted forward pass near her own goal linn. but when McCallum attempted 20 punt from behind the posts. Marsh blocked II and q safety for OKLA homa resulted. giving her two potnh. After a somewhat see-raw fight In the third period, NJ Tyler, reeeiv- Ing a forward pass from Davis, oklshoma sub-puarter. shook off several Texans end counted q touchdown after a 20-ynrd run, Davis kicksd goal. Davis added Oklahoma’r flnsi three points In the last period on u So-yard goal from placement. Texas Rcor~= in Third. Texas heartened her followers In the third period when. In the shndos OF the Oklahoma posts, Greer blocked swatek’s punt and Graves grabbed up the bail and plunged over the goal line for q touchdown. / McCallum kicksd goal. After that. Texas tried everything. she had. but without avail s@ Lineup, l IsENA Az I’m OKLAHOMA lln

The Corpus Christi caller, Corpus Christi, Tex., October 19, 1919, page 1
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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)
Texas 52% to win. Oklahoma won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Texas–Oklahoma gameOfficially, Texas leads 65–52–5; as played, 62–52–5 in the 119 games on file; the official count covers all 122 meetings, counting the 101 since this game.
| 2026 | Oklahoma 27, Texas 24 | |
| 2025 | Texas 23, Oklahoma 6 | Allstate Red River Rivalry |
| 2024 | Texas 34, Oklahoma 3 | Allstate Red River Rivalry |
| 2023 | Oklahoma 34, Texas 30 | Allstate Red River Rivalry |
| 2022 | Texas 49, Oklahoma 0 | |
| 2021 | Oklahoma 55, Texas 48 |
Around this game
Texas
- Next gameat BaylorOct. 25, 1919
- SeasonTexas in 1919
- ProgramTexas history and records
Oklahoma
- Next gamevs. NebraskaOct. 25, 1919
- SeasonOklahoma in 1919
- ProgramOklahoma history and records

