Oklahoma at Texas
Saturday, October 17, 1931 Share
Texas beat Oklahoma 3–0. It was their 26th meeting; after it, Texas led the series 14–8–1 in the games on file.
FinalHigh 81°F, low 56°F
In the newspapers

Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, Texas, October 19, 1931, page 1
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CORPS TO HIT REAL SNAG in AGGIE FRESHMEN FRIDAY Strong Grid Docket Coming up in Valley This Weel 7enas-H Harvard Contest Druws Attention of Southwest Fans DALLAS, Oct. 10. -CP-Leaving tie Southwest Conference race to Southern Methodist, Texas Chris tian and Baylor. all tied for the leadership, the University OF Texas Longhorns, 1880 conference cham pions, embark Wednesday morning for Harvard for n OF the most important intercollegiate games this week. The Longhorns’ 3 to 0 victory over Oklahoma Saturday erased the hurt of their defeat by Rice. Blanton’s field goal In the fourth period proved the Longhorns have more than one scoring possibility. Extensively, Texas far out-played Oklahoma, scoring IS first downs against two for the Sooners. While Texas is battling Harvard, other southwest conference teams will be attending TO intersectional and interconference foes. Only one conference championship game Is scheduled. Baylor and Texas “A. a. M. meet at College Station. Other games will see Centenary and Southern Methodist at Dallas; Rice at Arizona. Texas Christian against Simmons. and Arkansas in vading Shreveport to battle Louis lana State. The II. @. u. and Rice games will be played Friday night. Ponies Lead Southern Methodist. only undefeated team in the southwest conference on a full season standing, heads the conference race with victories over Arkansas and Rice. Saturday, the Mustangs stopped Rice ri TO II in a game which featured Mason’s 45-yard run for a touchdown In the first few minutes Of the game; and Jack Frye’s two touchdowns in the fourth period in a desperate attempt to save Rice from defeat. s. NJ. u. has scored 103 points against opponents “a in four games.
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 69% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Oklahoma–Texas 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 96 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
Oklahoma
- Next gameat Kansas StateOct. 24, 1931
- SeasonOklahoma in 1931
- ProgramOklahoma history and records
Texas
- Next gameat HarvardOct. 24, 1931
- SeasonTexas in 1931
- ProgramTexas history and records

