Tennessee at Duke
Saturday, October 2, 1948 Share
Tennessee and Duke tied 7–7. It was their 12th meeting; after it, Tennessee led the series 6–4–2.
FinalHigh 80°F, low 56°FAttendance 22,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, October 3, 1948, page 44
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Tennessee and Duke Match Quick Thrusts for TT Tie ME fumbled, however, and Arm strong recovered for the Vols on his own 18. Tennessee staged another threat Immediately. Littleford circle right end and scooted up the side lines 80 yards to the Duke 49. Proc tor then shot 2O-yard pass to Jim Miner on the Duke g. A line plunge gained only two and three passes fell incomplete. Tennessee led in first downs II to 9. Duke gained SO yards rushing to ST for the Vols. Tennessee COM pleted Is of % passes for 225 yards. and Duke made good on four of Is for 73 yards. TENNESSEE Ends-Powell. Miner. sherrod. Gruble cummins, Russas, Flora. a ahue. Thomas, Meseroll. Guards-smith. Vugrin. Elkas. Tanner, Baker. Howard Centers-Huneycutt. sivert. Felty, Hue Back-Armstrong. Lund. Proctor Hill. Coggins. Bergmeier, Sheriff. Pruett, Little ford. Cooper, Cancey. BalitSaris. DUKE Ends-Duncan. Austin. Heiss. souchak, Bryant. Lyons. Tackles-Allen. Derogatis, Reese, Eisenberg. Young. Anderson. Guards-Knotts, David. Karl. Marshall Sheriff.. Centers--Perkinson. Harris Stephenanz. Mounie Herlong. Friedlund. Hodges, Cox. Eslick. Swalchick. Duke n o. Tennessee o o. Tennessee scoring: Touchdown-Powell Point after touchdown-Powell tplacekick Duke scoring Touchdown-Austin Point after northumberland tplace-kick)
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)
Duke 60% to win.
The series
Every Tennessee–Duke gameTennessee leads 14–12–2 in 28 meetings, counting the 16 since this game.
| 2003 | Tennessee 23, Duke 6 | |
| 1993 | Tennessee 52, Duke 19 | |
| 1989 | Tennessee 28, Duke 6 | |
| 1988 | Duke 31, Tennessee 26 | |
| 1982 | Duke 25, Tennessee 24 | |
| 1978 | Tennessee 34, Duke 0 |
Around this game
Tennessee
- Next gamevs. ChattanoogaOct. 9, 1948
- SeasonTennessee in 1948
- ProgramTennessee history and records
Duke
- Next gamevs. NavyOct. 9, 1948
- SeasonDuke in 1948
- ProgramDuke history and records

