Tennessee at Kentucky

Saturday, November 24, 1951

No. 1 Tennessee beat No. 9 Kentucky 28–⁠0. It was their 47th meeting; after it, Tennessee led the series 27–⁠10–⁠7 in the games on file.

Away1Tennessee10–⁠1 in 1951
28
Home9Kentucky8–⁠4 in 1951
0

FinalHigh 44°F, low 28°F, 0.32 in. of rainAttendance 36,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Tennessee Routs Kentucky, ':: 28-O;; Stars Wildcats Outciussed, Even PoriIli's Passes Prove Futile Weapon

    Evening star, District of Columbia, November 25, 1951, page 50

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    Tennessee Routs Kentucky, ‘:: 28-O;; Stars Wildcats Outciussed, Even PoriIli’s Passes Prove Futile Weapon LEXINGTON, KY. Nov, “a. - Tennessee’s power and precision was a sight to behold today as the unbeaten and united Volunteers proved beyond question that they are qualified to remain rated as the Nations No. football team. Before a chilled. overflow crowd of $4,000 on Stoll Field, Coach Bob Neyland’s Vols. led by their great tailback, Hank Lauricella. chewed up the Wildcats. 28–⁠0. This virtually guaranteed the Sugar Bowl that both of the New Years Day foes will have perfect records at the kickoff. Only Vanderbilt remains in the path of the Volunteers and, al most as surely as Maryland concluded its season on a high note, so is Tennessee expected to romp

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: Grid Stars On Saturday

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, November 26, 1951, page 6 (results column)

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    Grid Stars On Saturday Bud Roffler, Washington State Played the entire game. rolling ut 132 yards rushing and TT passing as Washington State shaded Wash ington, 27–⁠25. Johnny Pappa. California = Crossed the goal line twice as Cali fornia upset Stanford, 20–⁠7 Paul Cameron, UCLA = Carried the bulk of his teams offense as UCLA tripped Southern California 2l-7. He picked up l28 yards pas sing and rushing, and tossed one touchdown aerial. Hank Lauricella, Tennessee = Gained 133 yards rushing in IT at temptS to lead his team to 28–⁠0 victory over Kentucky He threw one touchdown pass and averaged 34.5 yards on four punts. Sammy Rcbecca, Illinois–Kicked a 17-yard field goal to give his team a 80 triumph over North western that enabled Illinois to win the Big Ten championship and a trip to the Rose Bowl. Bob Carey, Michigan State = Caught two touchdown passes on plays of 42 and 23 yards and booted three extra points as Michigan State trounced Colorado, 45–⁠7.

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.

On the newsreel

  • FOOTBALLTennessee hands Kentucky one of its worst shellackings in years as the Volunteers, bound for the Sugar Bowl take the Kentuckians into camp to the tune of 28 to 0Universal Newsreel, November 26, 1951. Catalog record at the National Archives

Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Kentucky 51% to win. Tennessee won as Elo’s underdog.

Officially, Tennessee leads 85–⁠26–⁠9; as played, 84–⁠25–⁠9 in the 118 games on file; the official count covers all 121 meetings, counting the 74 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Tennessee 56, Kentucky 34
2024Tennessee 28, Kentucky 18
2023Tennessee 33, Kentucky 27
2022Tennessee 44, Kentucky 6
2021Tennessee 45, Kentucky 42
2020Kentucky 34, Tennessee 7

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