Arkansas at Texas

Saturday, October 19, 1946

No. 3 Texas beat No. 14 Arkansas 20–⁠0. It was their 27th meeting; after it, Texas led the series 22–⁠5.

Away14Arkansas6–⁠3–⁠2 in 1946
0
Home3Texas8–⁠2 in 1946
20

FinalHigh 85°F, low 65°FAttendance 40,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Wilmington morning star's story: Texas Longhorns Win 200 Over Arkansas

    The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, October 20, 1946, page 1

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    Texas Longhorns Win 200 Over Arkansas AUSTIN. Tex. Oct. 49, (P) - Riding high on the passing arm Of Bobby Layne. the Texas Long horns maintained their perfect rec ord today by dumping the Ar kansas RazorDacks from the ranks Of the indicated. 20 to o, before an estimated 1000 fans. Layne’s passing accounted for Two touchdOWns after substitute iu-loack Raymond Jones chalAed up the first Longhorn marker on a dive over center early in the lFSt quarte.. Texas was described as the Grip pied team before today’s game but Arkansas apparently was harder MT by the loss of Clyde (Smackover Scot, its ace w~ingback. Scott saw no action.

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: GSno FOOT BALL ! SCORES

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 21, 1946, page 3 (results column)

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    GSno FOOT BALL ! SCORES The following are final scores of leading football games played dur ing the. weekend: Michigan IA; Northwestern IA, tie. Ohio State IA; Purdue IA, tie. Marquette G.. Pitt T. Army AS; Columbia IA. North Carolina 21 Navy IA. Cornell 6; Yale 6, tie. St. Marys 33; Fordham 2. Virginia 0; Penn 40. Alabama 0; Tennessee 12. Michigan State 16; Penn State 16. Coast Guard 0; Harvard 69. Dartmouth 13; Brown 20. NYU 6; Rochester 0. Rutgers ‘; Princeton IA. Georgia B; Oklahoma Aggies IS. Syracuse 21; Holy Cross 12. William 6 Mary 34; Washington Lee 13 Davidson 0; VMI 25. Miami 20 Florida 13. Iowa l3; Indiana 0. Illinois 27 Wisconsin 21. Kentucky 10; Vanderbilt ‘. Arkansas 0; Texas 20. Baylor 6; Texas Tech 13. Duke 4l; Richmond 0. Texas Christian 0; Texas Aggies A. Tulane 32; Auburn 0.

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)

Texas 83% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Texas leads 57–⁠23 in 80 meetings, counting the 53 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Texas 52, Arkansas 37
2024Texas 20, Arkansas 10
2021Arkansas 40, Texas 21
2014Arkansas 31, Texas 7Texas Bowl
2008Texas 52, Arkansas 10
2004Texas 22, Arkansas 20

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