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Texas Tech at Texas

Saturday, September 17, 1949

Texas beat Texas Tech 43–⁠0. It was their sixth meeting; after it, Texas led the series 6–⁠0.

AwayTexas Tech7–⁠5 in 1949
0
HomeTexas6–⁠4 in 1949
43

FinalHigh 94°F, low 73°FAttendance 28,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Texas Trips Texas Tech In Football Stort, 43-0

    Evening star, September 18, 1949, page 46

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    Texas Trips Texas Tech In Football Stort, 43–⁠0 AUSTIN, Tex. Sept. 1.-THE University of Texas opened its 1949 football season today with q 40 massacre of Texas Tech. . Use of third and fourth-string Longhorns did not slow the scoring pace. The near 95-degree temper ature was rough on the Red Raid ers from Lubbock. Tex. They couldn’t gain when they moved near the Texas 20.

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)

Texas 66% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

The series

Every Texas Tech–Texas game

Texas leads 55–⁠18 in 73 meetings, counting the 67 since this game.

Recent meetings
2023Texas 57, Texas Tech 7
2022Texas Tech 37, Texas 34
2021Texas 70, Texas Tech 35
2020Texas 63, Texas Tech 56
2019Texas 49, Texas Tech 24
2018Texas 41, Texas Tech 34

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