Tennessee at Duke

Saturday, October 2, 1948

Tennessee and Duke tied 7–⁠7. It was their 12th meeting; after it, Tennessee led the series 6–⁠4–⁠2.

AwayTennessee4–⁠4–⁠2 in 1948
7
HomeDuke4–⁠3–⁠2 in 1948
7

FinalHigh 80°F, low 56°FAttendance 22,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Tennessee and Duke Match Quick Thrusts for TT Tie

    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.

Tennessee leads 14–⁠12–⁠2 in 28 meetings, counting the 16 since this game.

Recent meetings
2003Tennessee 23, Duke 6
1993Tennessee 52, Duke 19
1989Tennessee 28, Duke 6
1988Duke 31, Tennessee 26
1982Duke 25, Tennessee 24
1978Tennessee 34, Duke 0

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