Auburn at Duke

Saturday, November 4, 1933

Duke beat Auburn 13–⁠7. It was their second meeting; after it, the series stood even at 1–⁠1.

AwayAuburn5–⁠5 in 1933
7
HomeDuke9–⁠1 in 1933
13

FinalHigh 71°F, low 49°F, 0.08 in. of rain

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Duke Keeps Its Record Clean By Defeating Auburn, l3 to Z

    Evening star, November 5, 1933, page 48

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    Duke Keeps Its Record Clean By Defeating Auburn, l3 to Z the goal crosSbar and bounded back on the playing field. The rest of the scoring was packed into about 5 minutes at the start Of the third quarter. A FTER the kickoff there was an ~ exchange Of punts, with Hendrick- son running KimbrellS 10 yards to Auburn’s 40 marker. On first down Rossiter tipped heave to Tom Rogers which netted a touchdown. Hendrickson added the point from placement. The PlainSmen received the kickoff with Talley running the ball back to his 25. Three downs later Kimbrel made his scoring jaunt and Ariail kicked the point from placement. Some 10000 persons sat under threat ening skies 10 watch the hard-fightinc, lines of the two elevens smash at each other The Devils attack outclassed the Auburn offensive efforts with Duke get ting eight first downs to four for the Plainsmen. Dukes backs gained 125 yards by rushing with Auburns accounting for 1877, while Devil passes gained 100 yards to 81 netted by Auburn heaves.

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)

Duke 71% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Auburn leads 3–⁠2 in five meetings, counting the three since this game.

Recent meetings
1980Auburn 35, Duke 28
1935Auburn 7, Duke 0
1934Duke 13, Auburn 6
1933Duke 13, Auburn 7
1932Auburn 18, Duke 7

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