Texas at Texas A&M

Thursday, November 24, 1949

Texas beat Texas A&M 42–⁠14. It was their 56th meeting; after it, Texas led the series 29–⁠15–⁠5 in the games on file.

AwayTexas6–⁠4 in 1949
42
HomeTexas A&M1–⁠8–⁠1 in 1949
14

FinalHigh 82°F, low 55°FAttendance 41,200

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Bowl Bids Hanging in Bo!ance AsWeek End Brings Grid Climax

    Evening star, November 25, 1949, page 53 (results column)

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    Bowl Bids Hanging in Bo!ance AsWeek End Brings Grid Climax Arkansas, Alabama Florida, Boston College Holy Cross, New York Uni versity -Fordham, Colorado A. and M.-Colorado. Kansas Arizona, Brigham Young-Pepperdine. Once-beaten Cornell rallied for ~ points In the second half to dump Penn before $4,000 at Frank lin Field In the high spot Of yes tsrday’s schedule. Losers only to Dartmouth In nine games. Cornell pulled 1t out. on 4 25-yard scoring pass from Pete Dorset to Walt Bruska. A 10-yard field goal by Bill Kirk was the clincher. Ten in Row for Pacific. College of Pacific made it 10 straight with one to 60 by handing California Poly a merciless beat ing. $50. Texas, hot and cold by turns. smothered Texas Aggies, 42–⁠14. with sophomore Byron Townsend scoring three touchdowns. Wyoming clinched the Skyline Six title by downing Denver, 25–⁠6, and Detroit won the Missouri VAL ley Conference crown by humbling Wichita, 1877. Brown finished q fine season in which it was beaten only by Princeton. by scoring 27 points in the last quarter to trim COL gate, 1925. Gettysburg defeated Franklin and Marshall, 1914, and Morris Harvey drubbed West Virginia Wesleyan, 61–⁠6.

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 82% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, Texas leads 78–⁠37–⁠5; as played, 71–⁠37–⁠5 in the 113 games on file; the official count covers all 120 meetings, counting the 64 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Texas 27, Texas A&M 17
2024Texas 17, Texas A&M 7
2011Texas 27, Texas A&M 25
2010Texas A&M 24, Texas 17
2009Texas 49, Texas A&M 39
2008Texas 49, Texas A&M 9

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