Oklahoma at TCU
Saturday, October 23, 1948 Share
No. 18 Oklahoma beat TCU 21–18. It was their fifth meeting; after it, Oklahoma led the series 3–2.
FinalAttendance 20,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, October 24, 1948, page 40
Read the text
Oklahoma Defeats Texas Christian, 21–1S FORT WORTH. Tex, Oct. 23.- Oklahoma squeezed by Texas Chris tian University here tonight, 2l-18. in a wild offensive struggle. Texas Christian got two points from a first-period safety, but in the. second, Mitchell, Royal and Pearson spanked Oklahoma on an 89-yard drive that paid off with a touchdown. Ming kicked the extra point. Texas Christian came back to score once and take the lead at 9 to Z and then Oklahoma scored to go into the lead again at IA to 8. Oklahoma kicked off and, on the second play, Berry of Texas Chris tian ran II yards to put T. c. U. ahead again 16 to “A. Early in the last quarter Pearson ran SO yards for another Oklahoma touchdown and, with the extra point, Oklahoma again led, 81 to is. AS the game was closing Oklahoma was killing time when Mitchell was downed in the end zone giving T. c. U. its final two points on a safety,
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)
Oklahoma 52% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Oklahoma–TCU gameOklahoma leads 18–6 in 24 meetings, counting the 19 since this game.
| 2023 | Oklahoma 69, TCU 45 | |
| 2022 | TCU 55, Oklahoma 24 | |
| 2021 | Oklahoma 52, TCU 31 | |
| 2020 | Oklahoma 33, TCU 14 | |
| 2019 | Oklahoma 28, TCU 24 | |
| 2018 | Oklahoma 52, TCU 27 |
Around this game
Oklahoma
- Next gameat Iowa StateOct. 30, 1948
- SeasonOklahoma in 1948
- ProgramOklahoma history and records
TCU
- Next gamevs. BaylorOct. 30, 1948
- SeasonTCU in 1948
- ProgramTCU history and records

