VMI at Kentucky

Saturday, September 30, 1939

Kentucky beat VMI 21–⁠0. It was their 13th meeting; after it, Kentucky led the series 11–⁠2.

AwayVMI6–⁠3–⁠1 in 1939
0
HomeKentucky6–⁠2–⁠1 in 1939
21

FinalHigh 64°F, low 47°F, 0.53 in. of rainAttendance 5,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: FOOTBALL SCORES

    The Daily Alaska empire, October 2, 1939, page 5 (results column)

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    FOOTBALL SCORES The folIowing are final scores of leading football games played last Saturday afternoon. Pittsburgh 27; University of Washington 6. Oregon State 12: Stanford 0. Montana State 6; Idaho T. Oregon State T. Southern Oalifor- mia ‘, tie. New York University T; Colgate 6. Furman T, Army Is. Purdue 0; Notre Dame 3. Missouri 30; Colorado 0. Arizona 0: Minnesota 62. South Dakota o; Iowa Al. Illinois 0; Bradley 0. Clemson 6; Tulane T. Duke 26; Davidson 6. Virginia Military Institute 0; Kentucky 21. Florida O; Texas 6. Wuttenberg o; Carnegie Tech 35 Wake Forest 6; North Carolina 36. Detroit IA; Western Michigan State 0. Vanderbilt IS; Rice 12 Montana State g: Portland Uni yersity 0. Mississippi IA; Louisiana State T. SUNDAY GAME St. MarY,s IS. Gonzaga 0.

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)

Kentucky 63% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Kentucky leads 12–⁠2 in 14 meetings, counting the one since this game.

Recent meetings
1944Kentucky 26, VMI 2
1939Kentucky 21, VMI 0
1936Kentucky 38, VMI 0
1933Kentucky 21, VMI 6
1932Kentucky 23, VMI 0
1931Kentucky 20, VMI 12

Around this game

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