Texas Tech vs. Tulsa
Thursday, January 1, 1942, Sun Bowl Share
Tulsa beat Texas Tech 6–0. It was their first meeting; after it, Tulsa led the series 1–0.
FinalAttendance 12,000The game on Wikipedia
In the newspapers

The daily monitor, Mount Clemens, Mich., January 2, 1942, page 8 (results column)
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Only Rams 20 vittory Lacks Teedes Oregon Stote Upsets Dope; ‘Bomo Mokes ! First Down, Wins GubSu 0OWUs WINS BY HAROLD CLAASEN NEW YORK, Jan. q up – Everywhere but at New Orleans where Fordham slogged to a 2 to 0 triumph over Missouri touchdowns in the annual foot ball bowl games yesterday were as numerous as New Years Day headaches. At Miami, Georgia and Texas Christian players popped over the goal line with all the regulGrity of habit running the best of resolutions as the Bulldogs OF Southeast Conference triumph ed, 40 to 26. Oregon State got three and Duke two as the West Coast champions fooled everyone but their coach in upsetting the Blue Devils, 20 to 16, in the Rose Bowl game at Durham, N. c. ‘BAMA WHIPS AGGIES And Alabama crossed the dou- BILE stripe four times and Texas A g. M three times in The Grim son Tides 20 to FL Cotton Bowl victory. The Fordham Missouri score wasn’t a surprise. 1t was a COM pliment to the two teams who were forced to play on a field that e m b e d a Louisiana Bayou. Fordham’s two points came early in the first period when Don Greenwood, Missouri end, dropped back to punt and the water : ogged boot was blocked by tackle Alex Santilli of the Rams. The ball squirted through the end zone before Stan Ritinski, Fordham TANKER, got control of it. MIZZUH PASSES CLICK That was all the scoring the $4,000 spectators, most of them peeking from beneath umbrellas, saw although each club gain ed approximately $50 yards and the supposedly non-passing Mid westerners completed three aeriais in five tries. In Manufacturing their upset, the lowly rated Oregon Staters scored first and never permitted the Wanted Duke squad to get ahead, much to the dismay of the $4,000 damp spectators who damned their way into the stadi- UNI built to hold but $4,000. Don Durdan, the slim half back who passes with his left hand, was the payoff player al t h u g h the Beavers winning touchdown was manufactured on a 70-yard pass and run play from Bob Dethman to Gene Gray in the third Period. ONE FIRST DOWN Alabama used the minimum of effort in turning back the Cadets of Texas A e. M, col lecting its four touchdowns while gaining only rs yards by rushing and passing while reg istering but lone first down. The Texans, who could get only three touchdowns, gained 500 yards and Is first downs. The Tides success was tribute to Jimmy Nelson, their ace back, who scampered ~ yards on q punt return and later regis tered from 81 yards out. SINKWICH Is DIFFERENCE Frank Sinkwich, the broken jawed All America halfback was the difference b tw e r Georgia and the Texas Christian the latter eleven dropping it: first Bowl decision in four out ings. Three times Sinkwich flippe6 scoring aerials and once he broke loose on a 43-yard touch down jaunt of his own. He anc his mates combined for q 40 tc 7 lead before the Texans realized the game was under way. On the other B o WI fronts Tulsa’s Missouri Valley cham pions lasted for a fourth perioC touchdown and 6 to 0 verdict over Texas Tech in the Sur Bowl; Langston, Okla, blanket Morris Brown, Is to 0, in the Vulcan Bowl for the Negro championship and L ouisi an, College bested the University o. Mexico, 10 to 0, in Mexico City for the Orchid Bowl crown.
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 Tech 61% to win. Tulsa won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Texas Tech–Tulsa gameTulsa leads 12–11 in 23 meetings, counting the 22 since this game.
| 1987 | Texas Tech 42, Tulsa 7 | |
| 1985 | Texas Tech 21, Tulsa 17 | |
| 1984 | Texas Tech 20, Tulsa 17 | |
| 1983 | Tulsa 59, Texas Tech 20 | |
| 1972 | Texas Tech 35, Tulsa 18 | |
| 1959 | Texas Tech 8, Tulsa 7 |
Around this game
Texas Tech
- Next gamevs. West TexasSept. 26, 1942
- SeasonTexas Tech in 1941
- ProgramTexas Tech history and records
Tulsa
- Next gamevs. Waco FieldSept. 27, 1942
- SeasonTulsa in 1941
- ProgramTulsa history and records

