TCU at Baylor

Saturday, November 4, 1939

Baylor beat TCU 27–⁠0. It was their 48th meeting; after it, TCU led the series 20–⁠19–⁠4 in the games on file.

AwayTCU3–⁠7 in 1939
0
HomeBaylor7–⁠3 in 1939
27

FinalHigh 51°F, low 40°FAttendance 7,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Nome nugget's story: Football Scores November 4

    The Nome nugget, November 6, 1939, page 3 (results column)

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    Football Scores November 4 Iowa 4-Purdue o Texas Aggies 21-Arkansas 0 Duke 7-Georgia Tech 6 Nebraska 13-MisSouri 27 Northwestern 14-MinneSota 2 Kentucky 7-Alabama ‘, tie Michigan 7-Illinois 16 Tennessee 20-Louisian State c Washington 9-Montana 0 Idaho 19-Utah State ? Oregon 38-Washington State 0 Southern California 19- Ore gen State 2 Santa Clara 27-Stanford ‘ UCLA 20-California Notre Dame 14-Army 0 Rice 7-Fordham 13 Navy 6-Penn 13 Harvard 6-Princeton 9 Columbia 7-Cornell 13 Pitt 13-Temple 7 Indiana 0-Ohio Etate 27 St. Marys 6-Dayton Univer- sity 6 San Francisco University IA Loyalo Los Angeles ‘ Texas Christian 0-Baylor 27

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)

TCU 51% to win. Baylor won as Elo’s underdog.

Officially, TCU leads 60–⁠54–⁠7; as played, 61–⁠50–⁠5 in the 116 games on file; the official count covers all 121 meetings, counting the 73 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026TCU 17, Baylor 6
2025TCU 42, Baylor 36
2024Baylor 37, TCU 34
2023TCU 42, Baylor 17
2022TCU 29, Baylor 28
2021TCU 30, Baylor 28

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