Alabama at Tulane
Saturday, November 11, 1939 Share
No. 7 Tulane beat No. 20 Alabama 13–0. It was their 14th meeting; after it, Alabama led the series 11–2–1 as played.
FinalHigh 78°F, low 61°FAttendance 52,000
In the newspapers
The Daily Alaska empire, November 13, 1939, page 2
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Tulane Beats 3-Year Jinx Green Wave Is in Upper Ranks by Defeating Crimson Tide NEW ORLEANS, Nov, 13.-Tu- lanes Green Wave overcame a three year jinx last Saturday afternoon to subdue Alabama’s Crimson Tide 13 to 0. By the win, the Green Wave re- mains one of the Nations unde- feated football machines so far this season. < .Hs wg SE Ty lT M a # Today’s News Today-Empire.
The Nome nugget, November 13, 1939, page 1 (results column)
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Football Scores November Il Washington 13-California 6 Oregon State 19-Oregon IA Santa Clara 6-Michigan State Washington State Freshmen - 6-Washington Frosh 12 Washington State 2l-Idaho l3 Southern California 33-Stan- ford 0 Fresno State 27 Portland U 13 Utah 34-Hawaii 19 Army 0-Harvard 15 Missouri 20-New York U ‘ Pitt 6-Carnegie Tech 0 Duquesne Worth Carolina State 0 Columbia 19--Navy 13 Dartmouth 7-Princeton 9 Minnesota 20-Michigan ‘ Colgate 12-Cornell IA North Carolina 3z-Davidson 0 Notre Dame 6-Iowa Kentucky 6-Georgie Tech 13 Duke 20-V MY Tulane 13-Alabama 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.
On the newsreel
- TULANE CONQUERS 'BAMAThe "Green Wave" breaks a 3-year jinx and rolls over the Alabama "Crimson Tide," 13-0, before 52,000
Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Tulane 63% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Alabama–Tulane gameOfficially, Alabama leads 26–9–3; as played, 27–8–3 in 38 meetings, counting the 24 since this game.
| 2008 | Alabama 20, Tulane 6 | |
| 1994 | Alabama 20, Tulane 10 | |
| 1993 | Alabama 31, Tulane 17 | |
| 1992 | Alabama 37, Tulane 0 | |
| 1991 | Alabama 62, Tulane 0 | |
| 1965 | Alabama 27, Tulane 0 |
Around this game
Alabama
- Next gamevs. Georgia TechNov. 18, 1939
- SeasonAlabama in 1939
- ProgramAlabama history and records
Tulane
- Next gameat ColumbiaNov. 18, 1939
- SeasonTulane in 1939
- ProgramTulane history and records