Tennessee at Alabama

Saturday, October 15, 1938

Tennessee beat Alabama 13–⁠0. It was their 21st meeting; after it, Alabama led the series 13–⁠7–⁠1 as played.

AwayTennessee11–⁠0 in 1938
13
HomeAlabama7–⁠1–⁠1 in 1938
0

FinalHigh 90°F, low 58°FAttendance 25,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Macy, Penn, 'Ba,na and Cornell Among Football Upset Victims

    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.

Officially, Alabama leads 60–⁠41–⁠6; as played, 61–⁠40–⁠7 in 108 meetings, counting the 87 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Tennessee 26, Alabama 10
2025Alabama 37, Tennessee 20
2024Tennessee 24, Alabama 17
2023Alabama 34, Tennessee 20
2022Tennessee 52, Alabama 49
2021Alabama 52, Tennessee 24

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