Arizona at SMU

Saturday, October 1, 1938

SMU beat Arizona 29–⁠7. It was their first meeting; after it, SMU led the series 1–⁠0.

AwayArizona3–⁠6 in 1938
7
HomeSMU6–⁠4 in 1938
29

FinalHigh 100°F, low 69°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: MUSTANGS RUN WILD Southern Methodist Trips Arizona in Late Going, 2o-7.

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 2, 1938, page 37

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    MUSTANGS RUN WILD Southern Methodist Trips Arizona in Late Going, 2o-7. DALLAS, Oct. /. @- Southern Methodist University calmly inspected the Arizona defense today for one period, allowing a touchdown in the process, and then ran over the enemy in simple fashion to win, 29–⁠7. The Mustangs started slowly and Arizona showed them around. In the second period, however, Southern Methodist got its offense In order, scoring q touchdown and field goal. In the final period the Meth. odiets made tAfoe more tounhdoWn1.

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 51% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

SMU leads 2–⁠1 in three meetings, counting the two since this game.

Recent meetings
2025SMU 24, Arizona 19Holiday Bowl
1985Arizona 28, SMU 6
1938SMU 29, Arizona 7

Around this game

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