SMU at Arkansas

Saturday, November 16, 1935

SMU beat Arkansas 17–⁠6. It was their 11th meeting; after it, SMU led the series 5–⁠4–⁠2.

AwaySMU12–⁠1 in 1935
17
HomeArkansas5–⁠5 in 1935
6

Final

In the newspapers

  • The Imperial Valley press's story

    Imperial Valley press, November 18, 1935, page 6 (results column)

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    his teams touchdown, by Field judge A. w. Palmer of Colby. The casts three remaining un- beaten teams had little trouble keeping their records mtarnished. Princeton knocked off Lehigh go. Dartmouth overwhelmed Cornell, 41–⁠6. New York U. rolled over Rutgers, 4S-0. Pittsburgh scored a 60 intersectional victory over Nebraska, Big Six titleholder. Louisiana State moved within one game of the southeastern champion ship by beating Georgia, 1870. Duke clinched at least a tie for the south ern title by its victory over North Carolina. In the southwest, Texas Christian, with four conference vic tories and Southern Methodist, with 8, remain deadlocked for the lead. T. G. u. beat Texas, $50 and S. NJ. u. won its second game of the week by triumphing over Arkansas, 17–⁠6. Ohio States 60 triumph over Il linois enabled the Buckeyes to remain tied with Minnesota for the Big Ten lead.

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)

SMU 72% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Arkansas leads 37–⁠31–⁠5 in 73 meetings, counting the 62 since this game.

Recent meetings
1999Arkansas 26, SMU 0
1998Arkansas 44, SMU 17
1997SMU 31, Arkansas 9
1996SMU 23, Arkansas 10
1995SMU 17, Arkansas 14
1994Arkansas 34, SMU 14

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