Alabama at Tennessee
Saturday, October 21, 1950 Share
No. 18 Tennessee beat Alabama 14–9. It was their 32nd meeting; after it, Alabama led the series 17–12–3 as played.
FinalHigh 81°F, low 63°FAttendance 50,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, October 23, 1950, page 21 (results column)
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Saturdays Grid Stars BOB ZASTROW, Navy–PaSSeo and ran Navy to a 27–14 victory over Southern California, scoring two touchdoWns. DICK DOYNE, Gained 1853 yards, scored one touchdown in Lehigh’s 1914 upset of Dart mouth. VITO PARILLI, Kentucky-His passing scored one touchdown. set up three others in 34–7 victory over Villanova. CHARLEY ORTMANN, Michiean-Passed for one touchdown ran and passed to set up two others in 26–13 win over Wis consin. BOB REYNOLDS, Nebraska Ran 10, 26 and AZ yards for touch downs in 1910 victory over Penn State. ERNIE STOCKERT, UCLA- Caught two touchdown passes in alt upset over Stanford. DICK RAKLOVITS, Illinois Made numerous long gains, scored two touchdoWns in 20–13 win over Washington. BOBBY ROBERTSON, Indiana Dashed 83 yards for touch down, ran up 1875 yards in 18 tries in leading 20–7 win over Notre Dame. BERNIE CUSTIS, Syracuse Scored two touchdoWns, completed II passes. one for a touchdown, ir 1927 win over Holy Cross. RUFUS BARKLEY, Virginia Passed for two touchdoWns in Cavalier rally that beat VMI, 26–13. Al KOZAR, Tennessee–Scored two touchdowns, one in last minutes, to beat Alabama, 14–9. KYLE ROTE, Southern Methodist-Scored two touchdowns, set up another in 1921 victory over Rice. BYRON TOWNSEND, Texas Scored two touchdowns, one in last period, to give Texas 1914 win over Arkansas. LARRY ISBELL. Baylor-Passeo for one touchdown, set up two others in 26–12 triumph ovel Texas Tech. LOREN BROADUS, Florida Received first touchdown pass OF IA yards, ran 81 yards for Florida s winning touchdown, carried bal eight times for 109 yards in 3l-2T victory over Vanderbilt. ED MOONEY, North Carolina State-Scored two touchdowns ir 1913 victory over Maryland. LARRY SPENCER, Wake Forest Intercepted pass and ran 8; yards to touchdown in 1870 win over George Washington. DICK FLOWERS, Northwestern Passed to three touchdowns in 1928 win over Pittsburgh. TOM POWERS, Duke-Scoreo all six touchdowns as Duke beat Richmond. 41–0. Powers caught four passes for 180 yards and three touchdoWns.
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)
Tennessee 59% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Alabama–Tennessee gameOfficially, Alabama leads 60–41–6; as played, 61–40–7 in 108 meetings, counting the 76 since this game.
| 2026 | Tennessee 26, Alabama 10 | |
| 2025 | Alabama 37, Tennessee 20 | |
| 2024 | Tennessee 24, Alabama 17 | |
| 2023 | Alabama 34, Tennessee 20 | |
| 2022 | Tennessee 52, Alabama 49 | |
| 2021 | Alabama 52, Tennessee 24 |
Around this game
Alabama
- Next gamevs. Mississippi StateOct. 28, 1950
- SeasonAlabama in 1950
- ProgramAlabama history and records
Tennessee
- Next gamevs. Washington and LeeOct. 28, 1950
- SeasonTennessee in 1950
- ProgramTennessee history and records

