Marquette at Texas Tech

Saturday, November 26, 1938

No. 17 Texas Tech beat Marquette 21–⁠2. It was their first meeting; after it, Texas Tech led the series 1–⁠0.

AwayMarquette1–⁠7 in 1938
2
Home17Texas Tech10–⁠1 in 1938
21

FinalHigh 41°F, low 17°FAttendance 12,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Texas Tech Smears Marquette, III, For Tenth Win

    Evening star, District of Columbia, November 27, 1938, page 27

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    Texas Tech Smears Marquette, III, For Tenth Win BY the Associated Pre6S. LUBBOCK, Tex, Nov. 26-Texas Techs smearing Red Raiders struck with unconquerable ground and aerial power in the first and third periods here today to smash Mar quette University, 21 to 2. The victory gave the united and undefeated Raiders their 10th consecutive victory. Marquette made Is against Techs 6 first downs, but the Red Raiders plowed the turf for 385 yards against 1874 for Marquette. The Raiders started their scoring quickly after an exchange of punts. Coldigelli fumbled on Marquette’s S and Prince Scott. Tech wingman, pounced on the ball. On the third down, Gene Barnett swept end and went over the goal line. Late in the first period, Tech scored its second touchdown when Barnett shot a 5-yard pass to Elmer Tarbox, who weaved through a broken field for so yards and a touchdown. Marquette scored a safety in the second period when Busler broke through and blocked Marek’s at tempted punt behind the goal line. In the third, Gene Barnett COM pleted q 32-yard pass to George Webb. end, who raced 5 yards for the s,.A

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)

Texas Tech 85% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

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

Recent meetings
1940Texas Tech 20, Marquette 13
1939Marquette 22, Texas Tech 19
1938Texas Tech 21, Marquette 2

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