Tennessee at Kentucky
Thursday, November 28, 1929 Share
Tennessee and Kentucky tied 6–6. It was their 25th meeting; after it, Kentucky led the series 9–8–5 in the games on file.
FinalHigh 51°F, low 33°FAttendance 20,000
In the newspapers

The Daily Alaska empire, November 29, 1929, page 5 (results column)
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GRID SCORES ON THURSDAY The following are final scores of important football games played in various parts of the States on Thanksgiving Day afternoon: Penn IT: Cornell 7st ss,.a ss4A : Carnegie Tech 20; New York Uni versity 0. Syracuse 6; Columbia O. Colgate 32; Brown 0. St. Mary’s 32; Oregon 6. North Carolina 41; Virginia ‘. West Virginia 6; Washington and Jefferson 0. Maryland 39; John Hopkins 6. Utah 26; Utah Aggies 0. Nebraska 31; Iowa State l2. Marquette 25; Kansas Aggles b. Tennessee 6; Kentucky 6. Florida 25; Washington Lee T. Tulane 21; Louisiana State 0. University of California at Los Angeles IA; Montana 0. Idaho 41; Southern Branch ‘. Willamette 40; Whitman Is. Georgia 12; Alabama O.
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)
Tennessee 60% to win.
The series
Every Tennessee–Kentucky gameOfficially, Tennessee leads 85–26–9; as played, 84–25–9 in the 118 games on file; the official count covers all 121 meetings, counting the 96 since this game.
| 2025 | Tennessee 56, Kentucky 34 | |
| 2024 | Tennessee 28, Kentucky 18 | |
| 2023 | Tennessee 33, Kentucky 27 | |
| 2022 | Tennessee 44, Kentucky 6 | |
| 2021 | Tennessee 45, Kentucky 42 | |
| 2020 | Kentucky 34, Tennessee 7 |
Around this game
Tennessee
- Next gamevs. South CarolinaDec. 7, 1929
- SeasonTennessee in 1929
- ProgramTennessee history and records
Kentucky
- Next gamevs. SewaneeOct. 4, 1930
- SeasonKentucky in 1929
- ProgramKentucky history and records

