Vanderbilt at Tennessee

Saturday, December 1, 1945

No. 17 Tennessee beat Vanderbilt 45–⁠0. It was their 40th meeting; after it, Vanderbilt led the series 18–⁠15–⁠3 in the games on file.

AwayVanderbilt3–⁠6 in 1945
0
Home17Tennessee8–⁠1 in 1945
45

FinalHigh 43°F, low 33°FAttendance 15,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: FOOTBALL :. SCORES

    The Daily Alaska empire, December 3, 1945, page 3 (results column)

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    FOOTBALL :. SCORES The following are final scores of important football games played last Saturday afternoon: Army 32; Navy 13. Yale 28; Harvard 0. North Carolina 27; Virginia IS. Wake Forest IS; Clemson 6. Maryland l9; South Carolina 13 Tennessee 45; Vanderbilt 0. Great Lakes 39 Notre Dame ‘. Georgia 33; Georgia Tech 0. Alabama 55; Mississippi State 13 Southern Methodist 33; Texas Christian 0. Louisiana State 33; Tulane 0. Baylor IT. Rice IA. California 6; St. Mary’s Preflight O Oregon State 13; Oregon 12. Southern California 26; UCLA Is College of Pacific 0; Stockton Com mandos 6.

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 87% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, Tennessee leads 79–⁠33–⁠5; as played, 81–⁠31–⁠4 in the 116 games on file; the official count covers all 120 meetings, counting the 80 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Vanderbilt 45, Tennessee 24
2024Tennessee 36, Vanderbilt 23
2023Tennessee 48, Vanderbilt 24
2022Tennessee 56, Vanderbilt 0
2021Tennessee 45, Vanderbilt 21
2020Tennessee 42, Vanderbilt 17

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