Tennessee vs. Maryland
Tuesday, January 1, 1952, Sugar Bowl Share
No. 3 Maryland beat No. 1 Tennessee 28–13. It was their first meeting; after it, Maryland led the series 1–0.
FinalAttendance 82,271Referee: W.R. Dukes (Southern; split crew: Southern, SEC)
MVP Ed ModzelewskiWikipedia
In the newspapers
Evening star, January 2, 1952, page 46
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1850 Triumph Spartans Case 1918 Rout of Vols One of Worst Defeats For Any NeyIond Team NEW ORLEANS, Jan. a. Maryland’s all-conquering Terps today were demanding the No. ranking in college football as q result of their glorious accomplishment in beating previously top-ranked Tennessee at its own game in the Sugar Bowl yesterday. There doesn’t appear to be any one in New Orleans ready to raise “a dissenting voice. That 28–13 victory before $4,000 in the big Tulane stadium was the conyincer, for it was one of the worst defeats in the legendary
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
- SUGAR BOWLMighty Tennessee, rated tops in the nation is toppled by the scrappy Terrapins of Maryland. A capacity crowd of 82,000 sees Maryland, third ranking team, take the measure of the favored Vols by a score of 28 to 13.
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)
Tennessee 58% to win. Maryland pulled the upset.
The series
Every Tennessee–Maryland gameTennessee leads 5–3 in eight meetings, counting the seven since this game.
| 2002 | Maryland 30, Tennessee 3 | Peach Bowl |
| 1984 | Maryland 28, Tennessee 27 | Sun Bowl |
| 1983 | Tennessee 30, Maryland 23 | Citrus Bowl |
| 1975 | Tennessee 26, Maryland 8 | |
| 1974 | Tennessee 7, Maryland 3 | Liberty Bowl |
| 1957 | Tennessee 16, Maryland 0 |
Around this game
Tennessee
- Next gamevs. Mississippi StateSept. 27, 1952
- SeasonTennessee in 1951
- ProgramTennessee history and records
Maryland
- Next gameat MissouriSept. 20, 1952
- SeasonMaryland in 1951
- ProgramMaryland history and records