Alabama at Tennessee
Saturday, October 18, 1941 Share
Alabama beat Tennessee 9–2. It was their 24th meeting; after it, Alabama led the series 14–9–1 as played.
FinalHigh 81°F, low 56°FAttendance 37,000
In the newspapers

The Daily Alaska empire, October 20, 1941, page 5 (results column)
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FOOT BALL @ A{3SWG IFS Mr The following are final scores of important football games played last Saturday afternoon: UCLA T; University of Washing ton IA. California T. oregon 19. use T; Washington State 6. Idaho 16; Utah State o. Gonzaga 6; Montana 13. Michigan State o; Santa Clara T. University of San Francisco 26 Stanford 42. Ohio State 16; Purdue IA. Harvard 2; Dartmouth o. Penn 23; Princeton 0. Syracuse 31; University of New York 0. Army 20; Yale 2. Georgia T; Columbia 3. Mississippi 21; Holy Cross 0. Fordham 27; West Virginia 0. Brown 28; Tufts 6. Bucknell 6; Boston University o. Duke 27; Colgate 14. Oklahoma 16; Kansas State 0. Minnesota 39; Pittsburgh 0. Indiana 21; Nebraska l3. Wisconsin 23; Iowa 0. Boston College 26: Manhattan 13. Maryland 13; Florida 12. Illinois 40; Drake o. Alabama 9; Tennessee 2. Missouri 39; Iowa l3.
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)
Tennessee 70% to win. Alabama pulled the upset.
The series
Every Alabama–Tennessee gameOfficially, Alabama leads 60–41–6; as played, 61–40–7 in 108 meetings, counting the 84 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
Alabama
- Next gamevs. GeorgiaOct. 25, 1941
- SeasonAlabama in 1941
- ProgramAlabama history and records
Tennessee
- Next gamevs. CincinnatiOct. 25, 1941
- SeasonTennessee in 1941
- ProgramTennessee history and records

