TCU vs. Ole Miss

Thursday, January 1, 1948, Delta Bowl

No. 12 Ole Miss beat TCU 13–⁠9. It was their first meeting; after it, Ole Miss led the series 1–⁠0.

Neutral siteTCU4–⁠5–⁠2 in 1947
9
Neutral site12Ole Miss9–⁠2 in 1947
13

FinalAttendance 28,800Referee: Harry Viner (SWC; split crew: SWC, SEC)The game on Wikipedia

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story

    The Daily Alaska empire, January 2, 1948, page 2

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    the Fasteners to four touchdowns and scored one himself. Delta Bowl Thriller Charley Conerly chucked two last quarter touchdown passes that gave Mississippi a 13–⁠9 victory over Texas Christian in a Delta Bowl thriller before 28,80O at Memphis. Arkansas twice came from be- hind to edge William and Mary 21-l9 in the inaugural Dixie Bowl game before 21,O00 at Birmingham. College won over Philander Smith TO in the Cattle Bowl at Fort Worth, Texas. Pacific College Wins College of the Pacific, playing it’s second post-season game, roll ed to a 26–⁠14 verdict over the University of Wichita in the Raisin Bowl at Fresno, Calf. The Har- bor Bowl at San Diego saw Hard in n-Simmons trounce San Diego State 53–⁠0. A crowd of 12,000 turned out at Fl Paso, Texas, for the Sun Bowl game in which Miami Uni versity of Ohio repulsed Texas Tech 13–⁠12. Catawba of Salisbury, N. C., defeated Marshall College of Huntington, w. Va, TO in the Tangerine Bowl at Orlando, Fla. Hawaii University became the Pineapple Bowl champions at Hon olulu with a “basketball’-like 33- 32 verdict over the University of Redlands (CalifD.

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.

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Ole Miss 61% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Ole Miss leads 5–⁠2 in seven meetings, counting the six since this game.

Recent meetings
2014TCU 42, Ole Miss 3Peach Bowl
1983Ole Miss 20, TCU 7
1982Ole Miss 27, TCU 9
1955Ole Miss 14, TCU 13Cotton Bowl
1950Ole Miss 19, TCU 7
1949TCU 33, Ole Miss 27

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