SMU at Texas A&M

Saturday, November 8, 1941

No. 5 Texas A&M beat SMU 21–⁠10. It was their 24th meeting; after it, Texas A&M led the series 11–⁠10–⁠3.

AwaySMU5–⁠5 in 1941
10
Home5Texas A&M9–⁠2 in 1941
21

FinalHigh 62°F, low 39°FAttendance 20,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, November 9, 1941, page 42

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    COLLEGE STATION, Tex, Nov. 8.-Derace Moser threw scoring passes down shadowy sidelines today to pull the Texas Aggies from the brink of defeat and give them a 21–⁠10 victory over gallant Southern Methodist. For 49 minutes the Mustangs battled the Aggies to standstill, leading them 1919 on Bo Camp bells field goal, but the Red line finally pulled itself together to remain among the Nations undefeated and united teams-the only eleven now with that status in the Southwest Conference. A crowd of 10000 remained in a continuous uproar as Southern Methodist’s battered forces, crushed $40 last week by Texas, outplayed the Aggies for three quarters. One man in the crowd died dur ing the excitement. James A. RAM sey, 55, of Bolton, succumbed in the first period during which two touchdowns were made. S. NJ. U. Gets Lead. 1t required only four minutes for A. and M. to score with Moser cut ting back over left guard. from the S. M. U. II after having passed to Jim Sterling and Bill Henderson for II and 12-yard gains respectively. Jake Webster kicked the goal. Six minutes later the Mustangs tied the score on Preston Johnston S great runs after the Aggies had

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 76% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Texas A&M leads 45–⁠29–⁠7 in 81 meetings, counting the 57 since this game.

Recent meetings
2014Texas A&M 58, SMU 6
2013Texas A&M 42, SMU 13
2012Texas A&M 48, SMU 3
2011Texas A&M 46, SMU 14
2005Texas A&M 66, SMU 8
1995Texas A&M 20, SMU 17

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