Auburn at Tulane

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

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  Tulane’s Green Wave Turns Back Auburn By Score OF 81 to 0 NEW ORLEANS, Oct. H. (P}-Tulane’s Green Wave muffled the nations greatest ground gamer today, defeating Auburn $40 before = football crowd Of $4,000 and making Travis Tidwell look like Just another good college back. After 4 slow-starting first quarter Tulane’s heavy line and 4 hot muggy day began to tell on the plainesmen. It’d well showed flashes Of passing brilliance, but the edge went 10 Tulane’s powerrunning through out most Of the game. A greatly-improved Tulane pass defense slapped Tidwell down for 4 19-yard loss on one attempted passing play. In many instances his throws were wide and wobbly.

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  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.

Tulane leads 17–⁠15–⁠6 in 38 meetings, counting the 11 since this game.