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Alabama at Tennessee

Saturday, October 21, 1933

Alabama beat Tennessee 12–⁠6. It was their 16th meeting; after it, Alabama led the series 10–⁠6 as played.

AwayAlabama7–⁠1–⁠1 in 1933
12
HomeTennessee7–⁠3 in 1933
6

FinalHigh 84°F, low 49°FAttendance 25,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Line-ups and Summary.

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 22, 1933, page 49

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    Line-ups and Summary. Score by periods Tennessee ..O 8 o 0–⁠6 Alabama ........ o d 6–⁠12 Touchdowns-Tennessee Feathers Ala bama: E. Walker and Howell. Referee-Mr. Strupper GEORGIA TECH. Umpire-Mr. Hutchens tPurdue). Head linesman-Mr. Phillips (Georg1a Tech). Field Judge-Mr. Gebring (KanSas).

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: BALL. RESUIIS&

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 23, 1933, page 5 (results column)

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    BALL. RESUIIS& The following are final scores of football games played in var ious parts of the states last Sat- urday afternoon Washington University IA; Pu- get Sound College 6. Washington State 6; California 6. Oregon State 0; Southern Cali fornia 0. Stanford 20; San Francisco 13. Loyola ‘; UCLA 20. Montana State 0; Montana 32. Army 6; Illinois 0. Michigan IS; Ohio State 0. Notre Dame 0; Carnegie Tech ‘. Columbia o; Princeton 20 Brown 6; Yale IA. Holy Cross 10; Harvard 7. Dartmouth IA; Penn Syracuse IA; Cornell ‘. Virginia T; Navy l3 Colgate T; Pittsburgh 3. Purdue IA; Chicago 0. Indiana 0: Northwestern 25. Nebraska g; Kansas State 0. Wisconsin T; Iowa 26. Tulane ‘; Georgie Tech 0. North Carolina 0; Florida 9. Alabama 12; Tennessee 6.

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.

On the newsreel

Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Tennessee 62% to win. Alabama won as Elo’s underdog.

The series

Every Alabama–Tennessee game

Officially, Alabama leads 60–⁠41–⁠6; as played, 61–⁠40–⁠7 in 108 meetings, counting the 92 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Tennessee 26, Alabama 10
2025Alabama 37, Tennessee 20
2024Tennessee 24, Alabama 17
2023Alabama 34, Tennessee 20
2022Tennessee 52, Alabama 49
2021Alabama 52, Tennessee 24

Around this game

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