Oklahoma at TCU

Saturday, October 23, 1948

No. 18 Oklahoma beat TCU 21–⁠18. It was their fifth meeting; after it, Oklahoma led the series 3–⁠2.

Away18Oklahoma10–⁠1 in 1948
21
HomeTCU4–⁠5–⁠1 in 1948
18

FinalAttendance 20,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Oklahoma Defeats Texas Christian, 21-1S

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 24, 1948, page 40

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    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.

Oklahoma leads 18–⁠6 in 24 meetings, counting the 19 since this game.

Recent meetings
2023Oklahoma 69, TCU 45
2022TCU 55, Oklahoma 24
2021Oklahoma 52, TCU 31
2020Oklahoma 33, TCU 14
2019Oklahoma 28, TCU 24
2018Oklahoma 52, TCU 27

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