Arkansas at Texas A&M
Saturday, November 2, 1940 Share
No. 5 Texas A&M beat Arkansas 17–0. It was their 14th meeting; after it, Arkansas led the series 7–6–1.
FinalHigh 76°F, low 46°F
In the newspapers

Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 3, 1940, page 38
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Kimbrough Skaters Arkansas As Texas Aggies Mark Up 18th Victory in Row, 40 Jared the ball from Hamberg’s hands on an attempted sweep and Guard Marshall Robnett recovered on the Arkansas II. Lunging, diving, butting KIM brough swept straight through the massive Arkansas line for touch down on five jolts, the final one from the 8. Pugh kicked the point his ninth straight conversion without a miss. Wild Bill Conatser’s 39-yard punt return, and couple of Marland Jeffrey’s passes to Sterling and Hen derson, both latteraled off to Kim brough. carried the Aggies to the Arkansas 7 early in the third period, but Arkansas held. Kicks Difficult Field Goal. From the %, and at difficult angle. Sophomore Jake Webster kicked field goal. Two minutes later Kimbrough broke Arkansas back again. He stabbed Hamberg’s pass at midfeld and scurried SO yards to the Ar kansas %. On the next play JET frey sent a smoking touchdown pass to Sterling on the goal line. Robnett converted. The Aggies won handily, but were outgained. The towering Porkers rang up 226 yards-l5l by passing to the Aggies’ total of 185 yards.
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 A&M 84% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Arkansas–Texas A&M gameArkansas leads 42–38–3 in 83 meetings, counting the 69 since this game.
| 2026 | Texas A&M 34, Arkansas 7 | |
| 2025 | Texas A&M 45, Arkansas 42 | |
| 2024 | Texas A&M 21, Arkansas 17 | |
| 2023 | Texas A&M 34, Arkansas 22 | |
| 2022 | Texas A&M 23, Arkansas 21 | |
| 2021 | Arkansas 20, Texas A&M 10 |
Around this game
Arkansas
- Next gamevs. RiceNov. 9, 1940
- SeasonArkansas in 1940
- ProgramArkansas history and records
Texas A&M
- Next gameat SMUNov. 9, 1940
- SeasonTexas A&M in 1940
- ProgramTexas A&M history and records

