Tennessee at Alabama
Saturday, October 15, 1938 Share
Tennessee beat Alabama 13–0. It was their 21st meeting; after it, Alabama led the series 13–7–1 as played.
FinalHigh 90°F, low 58°FAttendance 25,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, October 16, 1938, page 1 (results column)
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Macy, Penn, ‘Ba,na and Cornell Among Football Upset Victims The rapidly thinning ranks of the Nations undefeated football teams were whitfield further yes terday as such powers as Navy, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Cornell, Holy Cross and Columbia fell VIC Tins to increasingly formidable opposition. Yale surprised by defeating Navy, 8 to 7, while Army came from behind three times to beat Harvard, 20 to II. Pennsylvania was surprised by Princeton, l3 to 0, while Colgate throttled the SEN sational Sid Euckman to trim Co. lumbia, IL to 0. Tennessee trounced Alabama, 13 to 0. Cornell was toppled from the ranks Of the unbeaten as Syracuse scored all its points in the final period to win, 10 to IT, and Car negie Tech spilled Holy Cross, to 8. -. Pittsburgh’s lpower smothered
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. Tennessee pulled the upset.
The series
Every Tennessee–Alabama gameOfficially, Alabama leads 60–41–6; as played, 61–40–7 in 108 meetings, counting the 87 since this game.
| 2026 | Tennessee 26, Alabama 10 | |
| 2025 | Alabama 37, Tennessee 20 | |
| 2024 | Tennessee 24, Alabama 17 | |
| 2023 | Alabama 34, Tennessee 20 | |
| 2022 | Tennessee 52, Alabama 49 | |
| 2021 | Alabama 52, Tennessee 24 |
Around this game
Tennessee
- Next gamevs. The CitadelOct. 22, 1938
- SeasonTennessee in 1938
- ProgramTennessee history and records
Alabama
- Next gamevs. SewaneeOct. 22, 1938
- SeasonAlabama in 1938
- ProgramAlabama history and records

