Mercer at Tennessee

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, September 29, 1940, page 1

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  Vols Prep For Duke With 49 To 0 Victory KNOXVILLE, Sept. 2S.-R-Major Bob Neyland’s Tennessee Volunteers toyed with the Mercer Bears for two quarters today and then buried them under a touchdown avalanche, 1910, to clear the way for their major battle with Duke next Saturday. Using only the simplest plays, the Volunteers pushed r two touch downs in the first half, and then turned on the power to roll up three touchdowns in the third period and two more in the last quarter before 10000 fans.

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.

Tennessee leads 2–⁠1 in three meetings.