Tulane at Alabama
Saturday, November 7, 1936 Share
No. 14 Alabama beat No. 10 Tulane 34–7. It was their 11th meeting; after it, Alabama led the series 9–1–1 as played.
FinalHigh 70°F, low 56°FAttendance 18,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 9, 1936, page 1 (results column)
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Georgetown Is Among Five With Only a Deadlock to Mar Record. Today only Northwestern, Marquette and Santa Clara could boast perfect records, while Fordham. Georgetown Utah State, Louisiana State and Ala bama each still was unbeaten but MAJ been tied once. Fordham, which all but assured it. self of an undefeated campaign by crushing Purdue last week and strengthened its chances of an invitation to the Rose Bowl at the same time, will be idle this week. North western, sure of undisputed possession of the Big Ten crown for the first time in history, should hurdle Michigan comfortably, but all the others are running into possible trouble. Manhattan Next for HOyas. BRIEFLY here’s how the weeks pro- gram lines up: East: Georgetown, which maintained its unbeaten record by swapping West Virginia, $50, finds Manhattan. 1871 conquerer of Kentucky, next on the list, but major interest will center or Army’s tussle with Notre Dame at New York and the second of the Big Three” classics, Yale VS.. Princeton al Princeton. Notre Dame. beaten by Navy, 80 on Bill Migrants 26-yard drop-kick will find Army fresh and ready The Cadets used the varsity sparingly in running over Muhlenberg, SAT Princeton, which rolled over Cornell Alb. in its most impressive display of the campaign, probably will be rated a slight favorite over Yale, held to 14–6 score by Browns gallant defense. The Eastern program. in general features purely intra- sectional games Harvard, which ran up a $50 count on Virginia, plays Navy. Columbia beaten 20-l3 by Dartmouth, meets Syracuse, which showed surprising strength in holding Indiana to a 81 score Cornell, and Dartmouth battle at Ithaca and Brown plays Holy Cross 20-l3 winner over Colgate. Villanova Faces Temple. FRESH from its 14–0 victory over South Carolina, VillanoVa plays Temple, which tied Michigan State, TT. Penn meets Penn State. trunced by Pitt, 34–7. Catholic and North Caroline State. Carnegie Tech and Duqusne,, Boston College and West ern Maryland and New York Uni versity and Rutgers are the other leading parings. Midwest: Two intersectional engage ments top Saturdays card. Pitt tack les Nebraska’s Huskers, whose 26-O conquest of Kansas clinched the Big Six crown. Minnesota. which came roaring back from its beating by North western to blast Iowa, $40, plays Texas strong Southwest Conference foe. Northwestern, which outscored Wis., consin, 26-l8. finishes its Big Ter Conference schedule against Michigan and then will have only Notre Dame tc hurdle for a perfect campaign. Ohio State, which swamped Chicago, 400 plays Illinois; Chicago meets Indiana and Iowa plays Purdue in other conference games. Marquette, which barely noSed out Creighton, 7–6, on Art Guepe’s 75-yard touchdown run, will find Mississippi tough. Big Six contests will send Oklahoms against Missouri and Kansas State against Iowa State. Oklahoma and Kansas State played to 6–6 draw last week. Kansas inexperienced array will try to cope with Michigan State Southwest Race Is Open. COUTHWEST-Sa program ~ featured by the Texas Aggies’ 22-t rout of Southern Methodist, left the conference race wide open with only Baylor. Rice and Texas out of it. The Aggie triumph marked their third VIC tory in five conference games, one OF which was a tie. Texas Christian chalked up its third victory in foul starts by beating Texas, 27–6, and Arkansas tripped Rice. 20–14, for q similar record. Southern Methodist and Arkansas meet in the only con. ference game this week as T. c. U plays Centenary, Baylor meets Okla. homa A. and NJ, and Rice eases of with Sam Houston Teachers. Texas A. and M. plays San Francisco or Armistice day. Far West-Washington’s late rally to tie Stanford, 14–14, left the Husxies undisputed leaders in the Pacific Coast Conference. Washington State, bowling to Oregon State, 1876, and Southern California losing to California, 1877 dropped out of the undefeated class as U. C. L. A. moved into a threatening position by stopping Oregon, TO. Washington and Southern Cali fornia, Oregon State and Stanford California and Oregon, U. C. Il. A. and Washington State, and Montana and Idaho meet in conference games this week. Santa Clara meets St Mary’s on Sunday. Duke Battles North Carolina. SOUTHEASTERN: Louisiana States - 1910 victory over Mississippi State Alabama’s rout of hitherto unbeater Tulane, BAT, and Auburns narrow 1912 conquest of Georgia Tech, left the three winners as the sole remain ing conference contenders. One Of these should be eliminated this week as Louisiana tackles Auburn. Ala. bama will be tested by Georgia Tech Other conference pairings send Van derbilt against Tennessee, Tulane against Georgia, Florida against Sewanee Kentucky plays Clemson Of the Southern Conference. Southern: Duke and North Caro-. lima should settle the. conference (See BARKER, Page A-l6.)
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 66% to win. Alabama pulled the upset. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Tulane–Alabama gameOfficially, Alabama leads 26–9–3; as played, 27–8–3 in 38 meetings, counting the 27 since this game.
| 2008 | Alabama 20, Tulane 6 | |
| 1994 | Alabama 20, Tulane 10 | |
| 1993 | Alabama 31, Tulane 17 | |
| 1992 | Alabama 37, Tulane 0 | |
| 1991 | Alabama 62, Tulane 0 | |
| 1965 | Alabama 27, Tulane 0 |
Around this game
Tulane
- Next gamevs. GeorgiaNov. 14, 1936
- SeasonTulane in 1936
- ProgramTulane history and records
Alabama
- Next gameat Georgia TechNov. 14, 1936
- SeasonAlabama in 1936
- ProgramAlabama history and records

