Tennessee at Alabama
Saturday, October 19, 1940 Share
No. 5 Tennessee beat Alabama 27–12. It was their 23rd meeting; after it, Alabama led the series 13–9–1 as played.
FinalHigh 86°F, low 45°FAttendance 24,500
In the newspapers
The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 21, 1940, page 5
Read the text
BUTLER MAKES BID FOR FOOTBALL FAME BIRMINGHAM, Oct. 21. = Dust off a shelf in footballs Hall of Fame for little Johnny Butler understudy of Tennessee’s great tailback Bob Foxx who sparked the Volunteers last Saturday afternoon to a 27 to 12 victory over the figh.- ing Alabama gridders.
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
- TENNESSEE TROUNCES ’BAMA, 27-12The unbeaten "Vols" display amazing power, riding roughshod over their hosts in a thrilling scoring battle. Batler's 47-yard dash starts the fireworks
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 58% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Tennessee–Alabama gameOfficially, Alabama leads 60–41–6; as played, 61–40–7 in 108 meetings, counting the 85 since this game.
| 2026 | Tennessee 26, Alabama 10 | |
| 2025 | Alabama 37, Tennessee 20 | |
| 2024 | Tennessee 24, Alabama 17 | |
| 2023 | Alabama 34, Tennessee 20 | |
| 2022 | Tennessee 52, Alabama 49 | |
| 2021 | Alabama 52, Tennessee 24 |
Around this game
Tennessee
- Next gamevs. FloridaOct. 26, 1940
- SeasonTennessee in 1940
- ProgramTennessee history and records
Alabama
- Next gameat KentuckyNov. 2, 1940
- SeasonAlabama in 1940
- ProgramAlabama history and records