Dayton at Tennessee
Saturday, October 10, 1942 Share
Tennessee beat Dayton 34–6. It was their second meeting; after it, Tennessee led the series 2–0.
FinalHigh 78°F, low 50°F
In the newspapers

The Daily Alaska empire, October 12, 1942, page 5 (results column)
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FOOTBALL . SCORES The following are final scores of leading football games played last Saturday afternoon: University of Washington 15; oregon 2. Washington State 68; Montana Is. Oregon State T; UCLA 30. Santa Clara T; California 6. Cornell 8; Army 28 Georgia Preflight 26; Duke 12. Buffalo T; Washington and Jef- ferson 13. Maine T; New Hampshire 20. Baylor 20; Arkansas 2. Tennessee 34; Dayton 6. Rice T; Tulane IS. Dallas T; Oklahoma 0. Indiana 12; Nebraska 0. Georgia 48; Mississippi 13. Pensacola Pliers 0; Alabama 27 Brigham Young 12; Utah ‘. Minnesota 13; Illinois 20. Brown 28; Columbia 21. Iowa Seahawks 26; Michigan IA. Stanford 0: Notre Dame 27. Camp Grant 16; Iowa 33. Pittsburgh 6; Great Lakes 2. North Carolina 0; Fordham O. Boston College IA; Clemson T. Lebanon Valley 36; City College O. Case 24: Carnegie Tech 6. William and Mary T; Harvard T. South Carolina 0; West Virginia 13. Fort Monmouth 3; Lafayette ‘. Colgate 27; Dartmouth l9. Penn State 19; Lehigh 3. Butler O; Ohio University 6. Wayne 6; Michigan State 46. Southern California l2; Ohio State 28. Navy 0; Princeton 10. Pennsylvania 35; Yale 6. Amherst 25; Bowdoin 0. Rutgers 13; Maryland 27. Vanderbilt T; Kentucky 6. Western Maryland ‘; Boston University 0. Massachusetts State 6; Vermont 13. Bates G. Tufts O. Purdue T; Northwestern 6. Missouri g; Wisconsin IT. VMI 38; Virginia Is.
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 97% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Dayton–Tennessee gameTennessee leads 4–0 in four meetings, counting the two since this game.
| 1955 | Tennessee 53, Dayton 7 | |
| 1954 | Tennessee 14, Dayton 7 | |
| 1942 | Tennessee 34, Dayton 6 | |
| 1941 | Tennessee 26, Dayton 0 |
Around this game
Dayton
- SeasonDayton in 1942
- ProgramDayton history and records
Tennessee
- Next gameat AlabamaOct. 17, 1942
- SeasonTennessee in 1942
- ProgramTennessee history and records

