Arkansas at Texas A&M

Saturday, November 2, 1940

No. 5 Texas A&M beat Arkansas 17–⁠0. It was their 14th meeting; after it, Arkansas led the series 7–⁠6–⁠1.

AwayArkansas4–⁠6 in 1940
0
Home5Texas A&M9–⁠1 in 1940
17

FinalHigh 76°F, low 46°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Kimbrough Skaters Arkansas As Texas Aggies Mark Up 18th Victory in Row, 40

    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

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Our ratings (scores only)

Texas A&M 84% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Arkansas leads 42–⁠38–⁠3 in 83 meetings, counting the 69 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Texas A&M 34, Arkansas 7
2025Texas A&M 45, Arkansas 42
2024Texas A&M 21, Arkansas 17
2023Texas A&M 34, Arkansas 22
2022Texas A&M 23, Arkansas 21
2021Arkansas 20, Texas A&M 10

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