Alabama at Vanderbilt

Thursday, November 28, 1935

Vanderbilt beat Alabama 14–⁠6. It was their 16th meeting; after it, Vanderbilt led the series 9–⁠7 as played.

AwayAlabama6–⁠2–⁠1 in 1935
6
HomeVanderbilt7–⁠3 in 1935
14

Final0.45 in. of rainAttendance 18,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Indianapolis times's story: ViOletS Just Paper Team, Rams Prove N. I. u. Over-Rated, Ford ham COnvinCes Experts in Easy Win.

    The Indianapolis times, Indianapolis [Ind.], November 29, 1935, page 1 (results column)

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    ViOletS Just Paper Team, Rams Prove N. I. u. Over-Rated, Ford ham COnvinCes Experts in Easy Win. NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-With New York UniverSity’s temple of triump, RACED by Fordham, the struggle tor the EaSt’s Rose Bowl bid shifted today to far-away Texas, where two of TOUR undefeated and united teams IN the country, Texas Christian and Southern Methodist, meet tomorrow. Fordham, beaten by Purdue and tied by st. Mary’S and Pitt. exploded New York’S exaggerated opinion OF It’s proves in the first II min utes OF their battle before $4,000 in Yankee Stadium yesterday. In that tlme Fordham ran up IA points. Il added another touchdown in the hnal period TO round out a 2l-o victory. N. Y. US “cream-pur” schedule enabled the Violets to GER recognition out of all proportion 10 their true strength. Free-fOr All Halted For a few minutes during the tense battle the game threatened to develop into free-for-all when Amerino Sarno, Fordham tackle. and Perry Geffen, New York u. tackle. engaged in fisticuffS. Players of both teams swsrmed off the benches and onto the field. Quick action by policemen halted the rough stuff. Both Sarno, who was elected from the ST. Marys game for rough play and Geffen were banished and the game resumed. Two traditional battles in the East share the spotlight on tomorrow’s brief program. Army and Navy will battle before 10000 at Franklin Field, Philadelphia, and Princeton. pointing for its ninth triumph to round out perfect season. will meet Yale before 10000 at New Haven. Army and Princeton are favored. Another important game brings together Louisiana State and Tulane at New Orleans Tennessee Star Hurt Other games tomorrow are Holy Cross-Boston College; Columbia D a r m outh; Florida Auburn; Georgia Tech-Georgia; Mississippi Mississippi State; Rice-Baylor, and U. C. L. A.-Idaho The biggest upset of the Thanks giving Day games was Bucknells TO victory over Temple. Carnegie Tech, which hasn’t beat Pitt since 1923, missed three field goals in a scoreleSS tie with the Panthers. After getting a two-touchdown lead, Nebraska lost its advantage and had to stage a touchdown march in the last two minutes to conquer Oregon State, 1920. West Virginia scored 10 points early in the first period but wound up tying Loyola New Orleans) 1919. Kentucky scored its first VIC tory over Tennessee in 10 years. 27–⁠0. Herbert Tade, Tennessee center, received a fractured skull which physicians feared might cost him his life. Vanderbilt scored an upset victory over Alabama, 14–⁠6.

  • The The Nome daily nugget's story: Football Scores

    The Nome daily nugget, Alaska, November 29, 1935, page 1 (results column)

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    Football Scores (By The Associated Press1 Fordham 21 N Y U 0 Penn B Cornell ‘ Nebraska 26 Oregon s 20 Missouri 0 Kansas 0 Texas Aggies 20 Texas 6 Alabama 6 Vanderbilt 14 Bucknell 2 Temple 6 Utah State l4 Utah IA Colorado 24 Denver 0 Xavier 12 Centenary 0 Detroit 12 Texas Tech ‘ Kentucky 27 Tennessee 0 Arizona 53 Drake 0 Montana State 6 Montana Mines 3 Lindfield 21 Albany 6 Gonzaga 20 Portland U 0 Willamette 10 Whitman 0 Colgate 33 Brown 0

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)

Alabama 67% to win. Vanderbilt pulled the upset.

Officially, Alabama leads 61–⁠20–⁠4; as played, 64–⁠19–⁠4 in 87 meetings, counting the 71 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Alabama 30, Vanderbilt 14
2024Vanderbilt 40, Alabama 35
2022Alabama 55, Vanderbilt 3
2017Alabama 59, Vanderbilt 0
2011Alabama 34, Vanderbilt 0
2007Alabama 24, Vanderbilt 10

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