Arizona at SMU
Saturday, October 1, 1938 Share
SMU beat Arizona 29–7. It was their first meeting; after it, SMU led the series 1–0.
FinalHigh 100°F, low 69°F
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, October 2, 1938, page 37
Read the text
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.
The series
Every Arizona–SMU gameSMU leads 2–1 in three meetings, counting the two since this game.
| 2025 | SMU 24, Arizona 19 | Holiday Bowl |
| 1985 | Arizona 28, SMU 6 | |
| 1938 | SMU 29, Arizona 7 |
Around this game
Arizona
- Next gamevs. New Mexico StateOct. 8, 1938
- SeasonArizona in 1938
- ProgramArizona history and records
SMU
- Next gamevs. MarquetteOct. 7, 1938
- SeasonSMU in 1938
- ProgramSMU history and records

