Louisiana at Alabama
Friday, September 25, 1942 Share
Alabama beat Louisiana 54–0. It was their second meeting; after it, Alabama led the series 2–0.
FinalHigh 85°F, low 54°FAttendance 7,500
In the newspapers

Evening star, September 26, 1942, page 24 (results column)
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Major E|evens Begin 1uss|ing In All Sectors Service Teoms Test Colleges; Many New Coaches Introduced NEW YORK, Sept. 26.-Almost everything on today’s football schedule-the first big Saturday Of the young seasons new. Notre Dame unleashes It’s new Of tense against Wisconsin,: Mime sofa, Fordam, Purdue. Duke. Ten nessee, st. Mary’s. Southern Cali fornia and scores Of others intro duce new coaches. while dozens OF colleges oppose service elevensnewest adjunct Of the gridiron sport. The Irish Of South Bend collide with the Badgers at Madison and As 900 spectators are expected to find the necessary gas, tires and | cash to reach the stadium and see what the men of Frank Leahy can do with the T-formation. DR.. George Hauser has taken over the destinies of the Golden Gophers now that Bernie Bierman, who | coached Minnesota to q mythical national crown last season, is in the Marines and tutoring the Iowa Seahawks. Minnesota faces Pittsburgh. New Coaches All Over the Map. There’n be coaching debuts an over the football map, rs approximately &c colleges changed mentors during the of1-season. ! Newcomers will be worrying on both sides Of the field as Fordham, now under Earl Walsh, and Elmer Burnham’s Purdue Boilermakers take the field at Lafayette, Ind. The same will be true at Los Angeles where Tulane, now under little Monk Simons, opposes South ern California, bossed by JeR Cravath. And as for the service teams. Northwestern and Harvard are more than likely to find the Iowa and North Carolina pre-fiight naval elevens stronger than the customary opening tests; Pennsylvania takes on the Georgia pre- Fighters and st. Mary’s sailor flyers tangle with Oregon. The Army also provides competition, with Ohio State battling the strong Fort Knox outfit and CO. lurnbia engaging Fort Monmouth. with the receipts going to war charities. | Sinkwich Wins for Georgia. In last nights prelude to today’s contests, All-America frankie Sink wdch made intermittent appear ances to help Georgia down the Jacksonville (F1a) Air Station, IA to o. Sinkwich passed for one of the touchdowns and scored the other. / Alabama, a threat to Georgia s Southeast Conference title smbitions, turned loose its shiftiest and speediest bevy Of backs Of the past decade in routing Southwestern Louisiana Institute, 54 to 0. That top-heavy score was approximated by Syracuse, which defeated Clark son, So to 6. Iowa State of the Big Six sur prised by downing Denver, z to 0, in an intersectional affair at the Col orado city after Paul Lohry swiped Denver pass to set up the tally Emery Nix trotted of the bench in the final quarter to direct Texas Christian to q 7-to-6 verdict over UCLA while Delaware, unbeaten in 1941, blanked West Chester (Pa.l Teachers. 700, In its first start.
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)
Alabama 96% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Louisiana–Alabama gameAlabama leads 9–0 in nine meetings, counting the seven since this game.
| 2018 | Alabama 56, Louisiana 14 | |
| 1990 | Alabama 25, Louisiana 6 | |
| 1989 | Alabama 24, Louisiana 17 | |
| 1988 | Alabama 17, Louisiana 0 | |
| 1987 | Alabama 38, Louisiana 10 | |
| 1984 | Alabama 37, Louisiana 14 |
Around this game
Louisiana
- SeasonLouisiana in 1942
- ProgramLouisiana history and records
Alabama
- Next gamevs. Mississippi StateOct. 3, 1942
- SeasonAlabama in 1942
- ProgramAlabama history and records

