Sewanee at Tulane

Saturday, November 25, 1939

No. 5 Tulane beat Sewanee 52–⁠0. It was their 17th meeting; Tulane leads the series 13–⁠4.

AwaySewanee3–⁠5 in 1939
0
Home5Tulane8–⁠1–⁠1 in 1939
52

FinalHigh 60°F, low 49°FAttendance 15,000

In the newspapers

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

    The Daily Alaska empire, November 27, 1939, page 2 (results column)

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    FOOTBALL ScoREs The following are final scores ot big games played last Saturday af- ternoon: Oklahoma 2; Nebraska 13. Auburn ?; Georgia 0. Rice o: Texas Christian 21. Iowa 2; Northwestern 2, tie. Sewanee 0; Tulane 52. California 32; Stanford IA. Oregon State IS; UCL.A. 13. tie Yale 20; Harvard T. Kansas State T; Boston College 38 Cornell 26, Penn 0. Pittsburgh O., Penn State 10. Ohio State IA; Michigan 21. Duke 28; North Carolina State 0 Purdue ‘; Indiana 6. Georgia Tech 21; Florida T. Missouri 20; Kansas 0. Wisconsin 6; Minnesota 23. Baylor 0; South. Methodist 21. Southern Calf 20; Notre Dame 12 Illinois 46; Chicago 0. Villanova T; Manhattan O. Colgate 0; Columbia o; tic. Bucknell 6; George Wash T. Temple T; Michigan State Is. Duquesne 22; Carnegie Tech ‘. Navy 0; Princeton 28. Clemson IA; Furman 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)

Tulane 91% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Tulane leads 13–⁠4 in 17 meetings.

Recent meetings
1939Tulane 52, Sewanee 0
1938Tulane 38, Sewanee 0
1937Tulane 33, Sewanee 7
1936Tulane 53, Sewanee 6
1935Tulane 33, Sewanee 0
1934Tulane 32, Sewanee 0

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