Ole Miss at LSU

Saturday, November 3, 1945

No. 17 LSU beat Ole Miss 32–⁠13. It was their 33rd meeting; after it, LSU led the series 20–⁠8 in the games on file.

AwayOle Miss4–⁠5 in 1945
13
Home17LSU7–⁠2 in 1945
32

FinalHigh 86°F, low 65°FAttendance 20,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser's story: Two Former Mos. Pointers Tally Ole Miss Scores

    The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser, Mississippi, November 9, 1945, page 1

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    Two Former Mos. Pointers Tally Ole Miss Scores Two former Moss Point High school football stars accounted for all of the University of Mississippi’s points in the game with Louisiana State University Sat urday night in which Ole Miss went down to a 32–⁠13 defeat at the hands of the Bayou Tigers, Vernon Wells, quarterback, and Everette Harper, right end, accounted for both of the Ole Miss touchdowns. For one score Wells passed 25 yards to Harper to put the ball on the L. S. u. one-foot line, from where Wells scored on a quarter back sneak. A short time later Wells passed 80 yards over the L. S. u, goal line to Harper for the second touchdown. Harper played on the Moss Point teams of 1939-40-41 as end and halfback. He served in the U. S. Army Air Force as a lieu tenant and pilot of a BIS. He received his discharge approxi-

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, District of Columbia, November 5, 1945, page 14 (results column)

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    Columbia scored It’s sixth IN row by beating Cornell, 1926. as feet Gene Rossides raced for all five of the Lions touchdowns Penn’s reg ulars engaged in only brief work out as they spilled Princeton, $50. Other important games of the week end pair Tulsa against Okla homa A. and NJ, Indiana VS.. Mime sofa, Iowa State VS.. Oklahoma, Ore gon State VS.. Washington, Califor- MIA VS.. Southern California, Utah VS.. New Mexico, Mississippi State vs. Louisiana State and Temple VS.. Penn State Outside of Mississippi States IA 13 licking by Tulane, few upsets oc- CURED over the week end and here is the way the sectional races stand: Temple, Holy Cross Unbeaten. Ranking behind Army, Navy. Co. lumbia and Pennsylvania, come Temple, Holy Cross and Penn State. Temple and Holy Cross remained unbeaten and united by beating La fayette t28–⁠0) and the New London Sub Base t20–⁠6), respectively. Penn States Nittany Lions, beaten only by Navy, walloped Syracuse, 800. In other games Yale nipped Dart mouth, 60; Brown trampled the Coast Guard. 1876. and Rochester whipped New York u. 1873. South-Alabama’s Red Elephants were ready for bowl bids after defeating Kentucky. 60–⁠19. for their fourth Southeastern Conference VIC tory in as many games. Georgia Tech saw its bowl chances disappear after losing 14–⁠6 to Duke and L, S. U. shellacked Mississippi 32–⁠13. North Carolina was beaten, 20–⁠6, by Ten nessee, and Clemson was nosed out by Miami of Florida, 7–⁠6. William and Mary subdued Maryland, 1914. Virginia continued its all-winning ways by beating West Virginia, 1877. Indiana Still Leading. Midwest – Indiana bowled over Cornell Uowa) College, 46–⁠6. in an outside game and still led the Big Ten with three wins and no defeats Ohio States Buckeyes, who rallied in the last quarter to beat Northwest ern, 1914, took over second with Al followed by Purdue, and Michigan each with 81. Purdue thumped Pittsburgh. $50. Wisconsin racked up its first conference triumph by betting Iowa, 27–⁠7. In the Big Six, Oklahoma s Soon ers are tied for the lead with Missouri, at 80 while Iowa State, following its 40–⁠13 victory, over Kansas State, is game behind at 81. Okla homa lost an inter-conference tilt with Texas Christian of the South west, 1877, and Missouri had its win ming streak halted by Michigan State, 14–⁠7. The undefeated and united Okla homa Aggies put their bowl hopes on the line against once-beaten Tulsa in game that will decide the Missouri, Valley title. Both teams were idle Saturday. Southwest-Texas and Texas A. and M. each came Though with Southwest Conference wins to tie T. C. U. for the leadership with two wins and one loss for each. Texas came from behind to edge out Southern Methodist, 1877, and the Aggies trampled Arkansas, $40. In nontitle clashes, Rice beat Texas Tech, 1870, and Baylor blanked Southwestern, 1910. C.IopcL~ rnLH~ Y>~I Rocky Mountains-C Colorado lost 1875, to unbeaten and united New Mexico, an independent, but moved in front in the Big Seven as Utah defeated Denver, 1921. Colorado is first with 20, followed by Denver 81; Utah, 20; Utah State, IL, and Colorado A. and NJ, 0–⁠3. Far West-St. Mary’s boosted its own bowl hopes while blasting Southern California’s Pasadena dreams by a $50 count. Only a Pa. cific Coast Conference team is eligi- BILE to represent the West in the Rose Bowl and Washington Huskies i’m proved their position by defeating Oregon, TO, for 5–⁠1 conference slate. Southern California and U. c L. A. are tied for second with 81 league records followed by Washing. ton State, So; Oregon State, % California, 1–⁠2; Oregon, “a, ane Idaho, 0–⁠4. Washington State ane California tied, TT, and Oregon State whipped Idaho, $40. 4 -.

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)

LSU 79% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, LSU leads 64–⁠44–⁠4; as played, 64–⁠42–⁠4 in the 110 games on file; the official count covers all 115 meetings, counting the 82 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Ole Miss 32, LSU 24
2025Ole Miss 24, LSU 19
2024LSU 29, Ole Miss 26
2023Ole Miss 55, LSU 49
2022LSU 45, Ole Miss 20
2021Ole Miss 31, LSU 17

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