Arizona at Texas Tech

Saturday, October 27, 1951

Texas Tech beat Arizona 41–⁠0. It was their 13th meeting; after it, Texas Tech led the series 11–⁠1–⁠1.

AwayArizona6–⁠5 in 1951
0
HomeTexas Tech7–⁠4 in 1951
41

FinalHigh 63°F, low 41°F, 0.02 in. of rainAttendance 16,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 31, 1951, page 67

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    and completed II out of Is passes for 270 yards. Ollie Matson. San Francisco His fine running against a strong San Diego Navy team made him one of top ground gamers in country. Eddie Crowder, Oklahoma Pitched four touchdown passes in first 18 minutes against Colorado. Playing only part Of the game he completed six Of seven passes | for 1875 yards and carried the ball six times for 81 yards. Junior Arterburn, Texas Tech Passed and ran for 267 yards, more than half Of his teams total, and scored three touchdowns in 41–⁠0 victory over Arizona.

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 Tech 67% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Texas Tech leads 27–⁠5–⁠2 in 34 meetings, counting the 21 since this game.

Recent meetings
2024Texas Tech 28, Arizona 22
2019Arizona 28, Texas Tech 14
1989Texas Tech 24, Arizona 14
1988Arizona 35, Texas Tech 19
1979Texas Tech 14, Arizona 14
1978Texas Tech 41, Arizona 26

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