Texas at Wisconsin

Saturday, October 7, 1939

Texas beat Wisconsin 17–⁠7. It was their only meeting on record.

AwayTexas5–⁠4 in 1939
17
HomeWisconsin1–⁠6–⁠1 in 1939
7

FinalHigh 84°F, low 55°FAttendance 25,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Nome nugget's story: Football Scores

    The Nome nugget, Alaska, October 9, 1939, page 1 (results column)

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    Football Scores Football finals-Alabama State 7, Forhlaln 6 West Virginia 0-Pitt 20 Missouri 0-Ohio Stat 19 Center 6--Army 2 Columbia 7-Yale 10 Louisiana State 26-Holy Cross Carnegie Tech 6-Temple 0 Colgate 0-Duke 37 Texas 17-Wisconsin 7 Minnesota 0-Nebraska 6 Iowa State 0-Kansas 14 Georgia Tech 14-Notre Dame IT Oklahoma 23-Northwestern 0 Stanford 0-Oregon 10 Idaho 6-Oregon State 2 UCLA 14-Washington 2 Washington State eSouthern Cal 27 St. Marys 7-California 3

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)

Wisconsin 71% to win. Texas pulled the upset.

Texas leads 1–⁠0 in their only meeting.

Around this game

Texas

Wisconsin