Kentucky at SMU

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  Evening star, October 23, 1949, page 39

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  S. M. U.S. 2O-7 Victory Knocks Kentucky From Unbeoten List 1 DALLAS, Oct. 22.-Southern Methodist knocked Kentucky from the list of unbeaten nationally ranked teams today on the smash ing runs of Kyle Rote and the threadneedle passing of Sophomore Fred Benners. The score was 20 to 7. Playing without the great Doak Walker, who heard about it from his hospital bed where he Is recuperating from influenza, the Methodists stormed from behind and won going away. AS the game ended, S. M. U. was on the Kentucky 7-yard line with three downs to go for a touchdown. A crowd of $4,000 watched the fighting Methodists, covering glaring mistakes with great defensive play in the clinches, wham the hitherto undefeated. united Wild

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 24, 1949, page 2 (results column)

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  Saturdays Football Stars and What They Did-pass. Run, Kick Jim Cain and Arnold Galiffa, Army–Cain scored four touch downs and Galiffa tossed four SCOT ing passes as Army routed Colum- bia, 63–⁠6. Lindy Berry, Texas Christian passed for 2O7 yards and three touchdowns in a 33–⁠27 victory over Mississippi. Kyle Rote, Southern Methodist scored two touchdowns, kicked two extra points, gained 96 yards carry ing hall, averaged 50 yards bunting in 20–⁠7 victory over Kentucky James Williams, Rice = kicked field goal with 10 seconds remaining to bring 17–⁠15 victory over Texas; also kicked two extra points ana played a fine defensive game. Chuck Ortmann, Michigan – scored a touchdown, gained llo yards on ground and completed nine passes for 92 yards as Michi- gan upset Minnesota, 14–⁠7.

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.

SMU leads 1–⁠0 in their only meeting.