Chattanooga at Tennessee

Saturday, October 12, 1946

No. 8 Tennessee beat Chattanooga 47–⁠7. It was their 19th meeting; after it, Tennessee led the series 16–⁠1–⁠2 as played.

AwayChattanooga5–⁠5 in 1946
7
Home8Tennessee9–⁠2 in 1946
47

FinalHigh 60°F, low 42°F, 0.77 in. of rainAttendance 22,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Wilmington morning star's story: Tennessee Defeats Chattanooga, AT

    The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, October 13, 1946, page 1

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    Tennessee Defeats Chattanooga, AT KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Oct. 10 U.H-Tennessee toyed with Chattanooga, running in reserves fire. quently, and swamped the Moe casins AZ to 7 today before $4,000 shivering fans. Moccasin fumbles and feeble booting set up practically all of the seven Tennessee touchdowns as the Volunteers tuned up for next Saturdays clash with Ala bama here. Chattanooga’s Howard Derrick tossed a 5O-yard pass to James Layfield in the end zone for the lone Moccasin score late in the second period.

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 94% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, Tennessee leads 37–⁠2–⁠2; as played, 38–⁠2–⁠2 in 42 meetings, counting the 23 since this game.

Recent meetings
2024Tennessee 69, Chattanooga 3
2019Tennessee 45, Chattanooga 0
2014Tennessee 45, Chattanooga 10
1969Tennessee 31, Chattanooga 0
1966Tennessee 28, Chattanooga 10
1964Tennessee 10, Chattanooga 6

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