Ole Miss at Kentucky

Saturday, September 30, 1950

No. 13 Kentucky beat Ole Miss 27–⁠0. It was their seventh meeting; after it, Kentucky led the series 4–⁠3 as played.

AwayOle Miss5–⁠5 in 1950
0
Home13Kentucky11–⁠1 in 1950
27

FinalHigh 79°F, low 58°FAttendance 32,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: .PariIIi Leads Kentucky TO 27-0 Win Over Ole Miss

    Evening star, October 1, 1950, page 44

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    .PariIIi Leads Kentucky TO 27–⁠0 Win Over Ole Miss LEXINGTON. KY. Sept. 30 Quarterback Vito Parilli struck damaging blows in the Mississippi defense with his passes here tonight to lead Kentucky to a 27–⁠0 victory in rough and = tumble Southeastern Conference football game. The passing ace delighted the partisan crowd of $4,000 by pass ing for one touchdown and striking vital blows in the other scoring drives. Kentucky tailed with a 64-yard drive Immediately after the OPEN ing kickoff; added another six pointer late in the first frame and scored once each in the second and third rounds. Ole Miss, building it’s offense around long striding John Dottley, the Nations rushing cham pion last fall, got only to the Kentucky Is.

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)

Kentucky 69% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, Ole Miss leads 30–⁠15–⁠1; as played, 31–⁠15–⁠1 in 47 meetings, counting the 40 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Ole Miss 30, Kentucky 23
2024Kentucky 20, Ole Miss 17
2022Ole Miss 22, Kentucky 19
2020Ole Miss 42, Kentucky 41
2017Ole Miss 37, Kentucky 34
2011Kentucky 30, Ole Miss 13

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