Sam Houston at Texas A&M

Saturday, October 7, 1933

Texas A&M beat Sam Houston 34–⁠14. It was their fifth meeting; after it, Texas A&M led the series 5–⁠0.

AwaySam Houston0–⁠1 in 1933
14
HomeTexas A&M6–⁠3–⁠1 in 1933
34

FinalHigh 91°F, low 65°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 7, 1933, page 12 (results column)

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    n YEW YORK, October THE M laundering herds of col / Y lege foot ball tramped 200 gridirons today in the first big crush of the season. For competition foot ball fans looked to Southern California and Washing ton State, St. Mary’s and California, Santa Clara and Stanford in the Far West; Notre Dame and Kansas, Mime sofa and Indiana. Nebraska and Texas, Michigan and Michigan State, Wisconsin and Marquette in the Midwest; Tulane and Georgia, Georgia Tech and Kentucky, North Carolina and Wander bilt in the South; Texas Christian and Arkansas in the Southwest. and Temple and Carnegie Tech and Pitt and West Virginia in the East. Those lComed as the hardeSt-fought engagements of the day for most other major schools either started or continued with the “warm-up” campaign designed TO put them in shape for more important games. later in the season. The South once more was the leading factor III interSeclonal warfare. send ing Mercer, Richmond and Virginia Military into tie North to face Navy. Cornell and Army. respectively, and Virginia into the Midwest to play Ohio State. South Carolina. meanwhile, remanned at home to battle Villa Nova. “HE East watched with not little interest the maiden efforts of Princeton, Yale and Harvard against Amherst. Maine and Bates, respectively, and the seasonal debuts OF such other major schools as New York University, Brown, Colgate, Syracuse and Columbia. all of whom faced apparent Set-ups. In the Midwest Purdue’s Boilermakers started off against Ohio University, strong Buckeye conference aggregation, and Chicago expected to start off Clark ShaughneSsy’s coaching regime with a victory over Cornell of Iowa. Rounding out the Southern schedule were Southeastern Conference contests between Alabama and Mississippi, Flor ida and SeWanee and Tennessee and Mississippi State; Southern Conference games involving Maryland and Virginia Poly and Clemson and North Carolina State and an intersectional duel between Centenary and Baylor, the latter hailing from the Southwest Conference. Rice, another Southwest Conference team, opposed Loyola of New Orleans. Colorado Colleges tussle with Wyoming headlined a three-game Rocky Mountain Conference schedule. II Asst nights program was featured by Kansas States thrilling vic tory over St. Louis University and intersectional triumphs for George Washington University and Colorado University. Kansas State came from behind in the final quarter to beat st. Louis. 20–⁠14; George Washington trounced North Dakota, 27–⁠6, and blocked kick in the fourth period enabled Colorado to turn back Oklahoma A. and M, 60. Duquesne turned back Bucknell, 60; Detroit swamped Western (Mlch0 Teachers. 26-O; Drake beat Butler, 26–⁠6, in a Missouri Valley Conference game, and Texas A. and M. whipped Sam Houston Teachers, 34–⁠14. U. c. L. A. turned on the power IN the last quarter and beat Utah, cham pions of the Rocky Mountain Confer ence. 21-O. Denver and Colorado Agg1es PLAYED a scoreless tie and Brigham Young defeated Colorado Teachers, 6–⁠2, in Rocky Mountain Conference 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.

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Texas A&M 81% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Texas A&M leads 13–⁠0 in 13 meetings, counting the eight since this game.

Recent meetings
2022Texas A&M 31, Sam Houston 0
2013Texas A&M 65, Sam Houston 28
2012Texas A&M 47, Sam Houston 28
1997Texas A&M 59, Sam Houston 6
1941Texas A&M 54, Sam Houston 0
1936Texas A&M 39, Sam Houston 6

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