Auburn at Tennessee

Saturday, December 9, 1939 Share

No. 2 Tennessee beat Auburn 7–⁠0. It was their sixth meeting; after it, Tennessee led the series 4–⁠2.

AwayAuburn5–⁠5–⁠1 in 1939

Home2Tennessee10–⁠1 in 1939

FinalHigh 64°F, low 29°FAttendance 25,000

In the newspapers

Evening star, December 10, 1939, page 36
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SNUTe Uy ptIIUuS. AUBURN O O O 90 Tennessee O O 0–⁠7 Scoring: Tennessee–Touchdown Butler Peel (sub for Bartholomew. (placement). Substitutions: Auburn-Ends. Lenoir, Eaulk: tackle, Buger: guards, Chandler, Thorpe: center. Fairchild backs, McMahan, Ellis, Minis. vending. Haynsworth. Tennessee–Ends, Balitsaris Hust. Dis. spayne: tackles, Edmiston, Lutrell; guards, LbnSmaS; smith stsiner; t,s center AsserWah, % len. Coffman Referee, Buck Cheves Georgia.: umpire, H W. Sholar (Presbyterian): linesman. g. NJ. Phillips Georgia Tech): field Judge, T. L. johnson (Georgia Tech).

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

TENN. ENDS UNBEATEN YEARThe Tennessee Volunteers wind up their season in a blaze of glory as they down Auburn seven to nothing to end unbeaten, united, unscored on seasonUniversal Newsreel, December 11, 1939. Catalog record at the National Archives

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)

Tennessee 81% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

The series

Every Auburn–Tennessee game

Auburn leads 28–⁠23–⁠3 in 54 meetings, counting the 48 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026	Tennessee 24, Auburn 14
2020	Auburn 30, Tennessee 17
2018	Tennessee 30, Auburn 24
2013	Auburn 55, Tennessee 23
2009	Auburn 26, Tennessee 22
2008	Auburn 14, Tennessee 12

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