Tennessee at Kentucky

Thursday, November 28, 1929

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.

AwayTennessee9–⁠0–⁠1 in 1929
6
HomeKentucky6–⁠1–⁠1 in 1929
6

FinalHigh 51°F, low 33°FAttendance 20,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: GRID SCORES ON THURSDAY

    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.

Officially, 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.

Recent meetings
2025Tennessee 56, Kentucky 34
2024Tennessee 28, Kentucky 18
2023Tennessee 33, Kentucky 27
2022Tennessee 44, Kentucky 6
2021Tennessee 45, Kentucky 42
2020Kentucky 34, Tennessee 7

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