Ole Miss at Tulane

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  The Washington times, Washington [D.C.], October 2, 1936, page 50

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  7 emp|e Meets Mississippi PHILADELPHIA. Oct. AL ready having won the first two contests on its 10-game schedule, Temple University’s football team will face it’s first severe test tonight when it meets the rebels of Mississippi under the flood lights of their own stadium. The invaders from Dixieland were reputedly one of the best gridiron machines in the South, despite the 7 to 6 defeat handed them by Tulane’s powerful juggernaut. The Owl eleven, however was determined to protect a seven year record of being unbeaten in nocturnal clashes. Tonight’S fray will be a coach ing battle between teacher and pupil, since Pop” Warner. Tenn. pie mentor, tutored Edgar Walker coach of odd Miss” at Stanford 10 years ago. The doubleWing attack system. made famous by Warner teams, will be much in evidence throughout the game as Walker is a devout follower of the Warner system.

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  Evening star, September 27, 1936, page 24

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  Score by periods: q q q O. n TULANE UPSET VICTOR NEW ORLEANS, September 26 (R.-Failure to convert the extra point gave Tulane 7–⁠6 upset vic tory over the University of Mississippi In a gridiron thriller today before an estimated crowd Of $4,000. Tulane’s victory over Ole Miss, which had been given an edge of from one to two touchdowns, started young Lowell (Red Dawson, Tulane’s mentor, OF to flying start with his 4sst team as head coach.

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.

Officially, Ole Miss leads 42–⁠23; as played, 43–⁠24 in 67 meetings, counting the 50 since this game.