Arkansas at Oklahoma State

Saturday, September 28, 1946

Arkansas and Oklahoma State tied 21–⁠21. It was their 18th meeting; after it, Oklahoma State led the series 9–⁠8–⁠1.

AwayArkansas6–⁠3–⁠2 in 1946
21
HomeOklahoma State3–⁠7–⁠1 in 1946
21

FinalHigh 75°F, low 61°F, 0.03 in. of rainAttendance 16,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Waterbury Democrat's story

    The Waterbury Democrat, Connecticut, October 3, 1946, page 12 (results column)

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    Synolcdte, 1nc. Dana x. Bibles mighty Texas Longhorns – the last team hell coach-will lead the nations Octo- Der slate next Saturday when 1t contacts for the first time potent, Fenimore- paced Oklahoma A. & M. team. Texas avalanche of touchdowns against Colorado last week sent it roaring to the top of the Systems ratings. Everything Bible threw at Colorado worked. Everybody scored. While Bob Fenimore and the Aggies were checked to 21–⁠21 deadlock by Arkansas and Clyde Scott, the Cow pokes still rate in the deadly” bracket. But Texas will win. The grid belt below the Mason Dixon line has some other head liners, too, with the Louisiana State Tigers battling a visiting pow erhouse from Mississippi State. Shorty McWilliams, top copy on most sports desks this season, can find out about postwar football when State squares off against Bernie Moore’s Tigers. The System likes Moore’s boys in this one. The System also likes Oklahoma’s bat ting Sooners over Texas A. & M. in the South’s third standout battle. It’ll be tough in the North when Michigan meets Iowa, and maybe tougher when Northwestern and Wisconsin clash at Evanston. We’ll string along with Michigan and Wisconsin for winners spells. Swinging out to the Pacific Coast, you can dust off your question marks for the San Stan ford game while we take piece of Stanford. Buckeyes Should Win Topping the intersectional sched- ule will be the Ohio State trip westward to meet Southern Cali fornia. Ohio States face reddened last week when the Buckeyes were knotted, 1913, by a determined Missouri eleven. But we can’t stay off the Buck bandwagon. On the Friday ticket, the System Is taking North Carolina over Miami in close one; West Texas State over the New Mexico Loboes in another thin one, and Villanova to top Marquette in what may prove one of the weeks most interesting games. You can worry over a list of ad- ditional games on the Saturday card. We worried Take Navy over Columbia, for instance. Or take the years sensation, Cincinnati, who

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)

Oklahoma State 85% to win.

Arkansas leads 30–⁠16–⁠1 in 47 meetings, counting the 29 since this game.

Recent meetings
2024Oklahoma State 39, Arkansas 31
1980Arkansas 33, Oklahoma State 20
1979Arkansas 27, Oklahoma State 7
1978Arkansas 19, Oklahoma State 7
1977Arkansas 28, Oklahoma State 6
1976Arkansas 16, Oklahoma State 10

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