Clemson at Tennessee
Saturday, October 1, 1938 Share
Tennessee beat Clemson 20–7. It was their 14th meeting; after it, Tennessee led the series 8–5–1.
FinalHigh 76°F, low 53°FAttendance 16,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, October 2, 1938, page 33
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RALLIES. TOPS CLEMSON, 20–7 Shock Troops Piloted by Cafego Grab Game After Long Drive Scores for Foe. oS ZIG ASSOCl1Ce0 1TeS&. KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Oct. Ito the mingled cheers of $4,000 patrons, Tennessee’s Volunteers scared from behind today to hand scrapping Clemson College q 20-to-7 setback in q game replete with thrills. When Maj. Bob Neyland’s starting eleven fell back under a power drive Of 64 yards to the pay-of stripe by Clemson, Tennessee’s shock troops” generalled by George Cafego, the West Virginia fash, reversed the Or der Of proceedings. With Cafego, ITO pounds Of grid iron dynamite, running wild and passing all over the field, Tennessee’s 8 rally produced touchdowns in each of the last three periods while the defensive setup thwarted all further scoring threats by the Southern Con-

The Washington times, October 3, 1938, page 21 (results column)
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HEADLINE TILTS STUD GRID SLATE. THIS WEEKEND college football throughout the Nation continues its menu of ira ditional and intersectional battles with the ndea of toppling the country’s best from the ranks of the undefeated. Conference games break out in full blast the coming week, but must share interest with the likes Of the Southern California Ohio State battle at Columbus; the Georgia Tech-Notre Dame affair at Atlanti; and the Colgate-Duke f1aSco at Buffalo, N. Y. Friday night, too lists two stellar inter. sectional attractions with Texas Christian at Temple and Southern Methodist playing Marquette at Chicago. No less than three local elevenS indulge in interSectional battles with Cathoic U. playing Detroit at Detroit and George Washington host here to Butler University Of Indianapolis on Fri. day evening. On Saturday, Mary. land travels to Syracuse for a game in Archibald Stadium. Headlining the East’S football parade Saturday is the Princeton. Dartmouth, the Penn-Yale and the Harvard Cornell Ivy League encounters. Pitt tackles DuqueSne in the Pitt Stadium, with the dis appointed baseball fandom of the Smoky City, expected to turn out $4,000 strong for this home grown attraction. Navy entertains sur prising Virginia, and the Army clashes with strong Columbia in other featured games of the East. SPECTACULAR GAMES Down south and into the South west a number of spectacular games have been carded. Wander bilt meets Kentucky at Lexington; !; Tennessee plays Auburn at Knox. vile; North Carolina entertains Tulane’s Green wave and v. P. I. plays William and Mary in the Old Dominion State headliner. Texas battles Oklahoma and L. S. U. plays Rice in important as SignmentS. Big Ten and Blk Six tilts feature the play in the Midwest. Illinois Indiana, Iowa-WisconSin, Michigam Chicago, and Minnesota–Pur due is the western Conference slate for Saturday. Kansas State Missouri, and Nebra a-Iowa State features Blk Six competiton. California plays two “breather’‘ opponents next Saturday, enter taining College of the Pacific and California Aggies. In Pacific Coast Conference play, Stanford opposes Washington State and u C. L. A. meets a dissappoint. ing Washington eleven. The Su’ gar Bowl champion, Santa Clara eleven, takes on Texas A. and M At the close of the second ween end of warfare along the college grid front, Minnesota, Pittsburgh Santa Clara, Columbia, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Tennessee Southern Methodist, Texas Chris tian, and Brown assumed the lead in the quest for the national mythical championship. IMPRESSIVE VICTORIES All these teams won impressive victories over stern opposition, with Brown turning in the out. standing surprise of the day, trim. ming Harvard, 20–13. Minnesota gained revenge OF its 1887 defeat by Nebraska pounding out a 1877 victory. Ohio State did likewise by defeating Indiana with pass for tally in the fourth period, 60. Santa Clara sounded to the ma. ton that she was ready TO rthe best of ‘em by Soundly thrashing Stanford, 90, and Pittsburgh, with its dream backfield,” ,” smothered Temple, 27–6 before the largest crowd ever assembled in the Owls lair. Columbia again captured the hearts of the Gotham Scribes by whipping a young but energetic Yale machine, 27–14, and Notre Dame, using “a players, ran over Kansas, conqueror Of Texas, SO. Tennessee turned back the as pirationS of a powerful Clemson team, 20–7 with a last quarter touchdown surge, and Southern Methodist trimmed Arizona in an interSectional fray, 27–7 that was impressive. Texas Christian, in quest of the Southwest title top pied Arkansas, ALA. CRISLER’S DEBUT In big state encounters, Michigan, starting out under Fritz Crisler, upset Michigan State, 40, while wisconsin schellaced Marquette 27–0 in easy fashion. Old Penn inaugurated the Numger regime. by stopping Lafayette, undefeated last year, 346. and Navy won its second in a row, bowling over v. M. l., 26-O. Army swamped v. P. l., 80, and Vir. ginia defeated washington and Lee for the first time in seven years, 13–0. Auburn and Tulane battled to a scorelesS tie for the third time in as many years. Locally, Georgetown swamped a highly-regarded Hampden-Syoney eleven, So, but Maryland, with its passing star. Charley Weidenger out of the lineup, was druhksd by Penn State, $50. George Washington made its first | start of the wear noSing ollt FIJI.

The Key West citizen. (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, Florida, October 7, 1938, page 3 (results column)
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THIS PIGSKIN WEEKEND Following, are football games for Saturday with last years scores: EAST Amherst VS. Tufts; Army VS. Co lumbia GLIB; Boston U. VS. St. Lawrence; Brown VS. Lafayette; ‘Bucknell VS. Penn State (14–20): Carnegie Tech VS. Wittenburg; Colgate VS. Duke Obj; Duquesne VS. Pittsburgh (0–6); Fordham VS. Waynesburg (48–0); Georgetown VS. Roanoked Harvard VS. Cornell; Holy Cross VS. Manhattan; Navy VS. Virginia (40-i3); New York U. VS. Rutgers; Penn U. VS. Yale CPD; Princeton VS. Dartmouth (9–33); Syracuse VS. Maryland Obj: Villnaova VS. Muhlenberg. MIDWEST Chicago u. VS. Michigan Q2–13); Creighton VS. Oklahoma $3.50; Drake VS. Northwestern; Illinois U. VS. Indiana (6–13); Iowa VS. Wis consin (6–13Y; Iowa State VS., Ne braska (7–20); Kansas vs. Wash burn (25–2); Kansas State VS. Missouri, (T-I4); Michigan State VS. Illinois Wesleyan; Minnesota U. VS. Purdue; Notre Dame VS. Georgia Tech, Ohio State VS. Southern California (l2-l3l; Oklahoma VS. Tevas; Tulsa u VS. Washington (32–7. SOUTH Alabama VS. N. c. State: Ala hama Poly VS. Tennessee GOD: Clemson VS. V.MI.; Davidson VS. Erskine (2l-6y: FLORIDA VS. SEwANEE CLIO. Kentucky U. vs. Vanderbilt OILY; L.S.u. VS. Rice $3.50; Mississippi VS. Miss. State TEACHES; Miss. VS. Louisiana Tech: North Carolina VS. Tulshe li3–0J; Richmond VS. Hampton Sydney 900; South Carolina vs. Wake Forest: Tennessee VS. Anbllrn G7–20>; yPL. VS. w.M. W-12I; washington and Lee VS. West Virginia (O-6l. SOUTHWEST Arkansas VS. Baylor N4–20l; Texas A. NJ. VS. Santa Clara: Cen tenary VS. S.w.: Texas Tech VS. Oklahoma City. ROCKY MOUNTAINS Brigham Young VS. Wyoming (ls-01; COLORADO VS. Utah State $50: Colorado Miners VS. Chad ron: Montana State vs. Omaha: Western State VS. Idaho le-6l. FAR WEST California vs. Pennsylvania coo: Gonzaga VS. North Dakota. Oregon STATE vs. Portland: Stan ford VS. Washington State fz3-ol. u.CL-A- vs. washington g0-261.

The times-news. (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, North Carolina, October 3, 1938, page 4 (results column)
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Football Results Following are results of all lead ing college football games played Saturday: SOUTH Auburn O; Tulane 0 (tie) Duke 27; Davidson o. Virginia 13; Washington and Lee o. Centre l6; Chattanooga 7. Kentucky &c; Oglethorpe O. Alabama 81; Howard 0. Mississippi State %; Florida 0. Georgia Z: South Carolina 6. Georgia Tech 10; Mercer 0. Tennessee 20: Clemson 7. Vanderbilt ~; Western Ken lucky Teachers 0. North Carolina 81; NJ C. State Richmond ~; Randolph-Macon Apprentice School 9; William & Mary 8. Guilford 6: Wofford O. Carson Newman Is; Union, Ky. College 6. Belmont Abbey 10; Eastern Carolina Teachers 0. Holing Springs 10; Lees-McRae Emory & Henry O.; Western Carolina Teachers 0 (tie). Mississippi 27; La. Tech 7. EAST Amherst 6; Springfield 6 (tie). Army 90; Virginia Tech 0. New Hampshire %; Bates 6. Bucknell 27; Gettysburg ID. Carnegie Tech 40; Davis Elkins Cornell Is; Colgate 6. Delaware II; Ursinus 9. Fordham AT; Upsala o. Georgetown 81; Hampden-Sydney 0. Brown 20; Harvard 13. Holy Cross 46; Rhode Island 0. New York 10; Maine 0. Penn State 80; Maryland 0. Pennsylvania 81: Lafayette 6. Princeton SO; Williams 0. Rutgers Is; Vermont ID. Pittsburgh %; Temple 6. Trinity 10; Union IS. Navy &c; Va. Military 0. Villanova SO; American Inter national O. Columbia 27; Yale ID. Dartmouth 81; st. Lawrence 0. Boston s. Lehigh s (tie). Washington & Jefferson 81; Ma rietta O.. West Virginia 49, West Vir-
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)
Tennessee 65% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Clemson–Tennessee gameTennessee leads 12–6–1 in 19 meetings, counting the five since this game.
| 2022 | Tennessee 31, Clemson 14 | Orange Bowl |
| 2003 | Clemson 27, Tennessee 14 | Peach Bowl |
| 1976 | Tennessee 21, Clemson 19 | |
| 1974 | Tennessee 29, Clemson 28 | |
| 1944 | Tennessee 26, Clemson 7 | |
| 1938 | Tennessee 20, Clemson 7 |
Around this game
Clemson
- Next gamevs. VMIOct. 8, 1938
- SeasonClemson in 1938
- ProgramClemson history and records
Tennessee
- Next gamevs. AuburnOct. 8, 1938
- SeasonTennessee in 1938
- ProgramTennessee history and records

