SMU at Texas
Saturday, November 2, 1940 Share
No. 15 SMU beat Texas 21–13. It was their 20th meeting; after it, SMU led the series 11–6–3.
FinalHigh 73°F, low 46°FAttendance 25,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 3, 1940, page 36 (results column)
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on Steve Juzwik’s 81-yard run with an intercepted pass. All five unbeaten eastern teams won easily. Cornell romped over Columbia, 27–0; Boston College ran up a $50 count on Manhattan; Lafayette knocked over Washington and Jefferson by the same score; Penn State took South Carolina over the hurdles, 1910; and Georgetown moved down Syracuse, 1876. Texas A. and M. whipped Ar kansas, ITO, while Southern Methodist handed Texas its sec ond successive defeat, 21–13. Tennessee routed Louisiana State $50. as Mississippi State licked Southwestern of Memphis, 1870. Duke practically ran Georgia Tech Of the gridiron with q At victory. Georgia nosed out Auburn, 1913, and Mississippi scored over Vanderbilt, 1871, In the Southeastern Conference.
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)
Texas 52% to win. SMU won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every SMU–Texas gameTexas leads 47–22–4 in 73 meetings, counting the 53 since this game.
| 1995 | Texas 35, SMU 10 | |
| 1994 | Texas 42, SMU 20 | |
| 1993 | Texas 37, SMU 10 | |
| 1992 | Texas 35, SMU 14 | |
| 1991 | Texas 34, SMU 0 | |
| 1990 | Texas 52, SMU 3 |
Around this game
SMU
- Next gamevs. Texas A&MNov. 9, 1940
- SeasonSMU in 1940
- ProgramSMU history and records
Texas
- Next gamevs. BaylorNov. 9, 1940
- SeasonTexas in 1940
- ProgramTexas history and records

