SMU at Texas

Saturday, November 2, 1940

No. 15 SMU beat Texas 21–⁠13. It was their 20th meeting; after it, SMU led the series 11–⁠6–⁠3.

Away15SMU8–⁠1–⁠1 in 1940
21
HomeTexas8–⁠2 in 1940
13

FinalHigh 73°F, low 46°FAttendance 25,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    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.

Texas leads 47–⁠22–⁠4 in 73 meetings, counting the 53 since this game.

Recent meetings
1995Texas 35, SMU 10
1994Texas 42, SMU 20
1993Texas 37, SMU 10
1992Texas 35, SMU 14
1991Texas 34, SMU 0
1990Texas 52, SMU 3

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