Texas Tech at Texas

Saturday, September 25, 1937

Texas beat Texas Tech 25–⁠12. It was their third meeting; after it, Texas led the series 3–⁠0.

AwayTexas Tech8–⁠4 in 1937
12
HomeTexas2–⁠6–⁠1 in 1937
25

FinalHigh 82°F, low 70°FAttendance 10,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: 1ntersectiOnal Tussels.

    Evening star, September 27, 1937, page 12 (results column)

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    1ntersectiOnal Tussels. NAVY, after a 45-O rout of William and Mary. plays another Southern Conference school, The Citadel, while Army faces a hard-bitten Clemson outfit which held Tulane to a 10 count. The intersectional angle is stressed heavily elsewhere in the district as Temple plays Mississippi, George Washington meets Wake Forest. Man. haitian tackles Texas A. and NJ. hailed as possible Southwest Conference champions, and Pennsylvania takes on Maryland Carnegie Tech. starting its first season with Bill Kern as coach, plays New York University, which seems to have power to burn and plenty deception to make it effective. Tulane, Auburn Top Dixie Card. TULANE will have to show more power than it did against Clemson II the Green Wave is to turn back Auburn’s Plainsmen in the big South eastern Conference engagement of the week. Alabama plays improved 6ewanee in the other. Vanderbilt, paced by Sophomore Bert Marshall tripped Kentucky in its conference inaugural and now meets Chicago. Louisiana State, 1910 victor over Florida, plays Dana Bibles Texas Lonehorns who looked strong in a 25–⁠12 triumph over Texas Tech. Ten nessee’s Vols, who ran up 800 count on Wake Forest, should have little trouble with Virginia Poly, whipped $50 by Duke. Duke, the team to beat for the Southern Conference title, plays David son In a conference tilt, while North Carolina, held to surprising 1913 tie by South Carolina, meets North Carolina State. The Washington and Lee-Richmond and Virginia Military william and Mary games complete the conference slate. South Carolina plays (See FOOT BALL, Page A-14.)

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)

Texas 60% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Texas leads 55–⁠18 in 73 meetings, counting the 70 since this game.

Recent meetings
2023Texas 57, Texas Tech 7
2022Texas Tech 37, Texas 34
2021Texas 70, Texas Tech 35
2020Texas 63, Texas Tech 56
2019Texas 49, Texas Tech 24
2018Texas 41, Texas Tech 34

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