Alabama at LSU
Saturday, September 27, 1952 Share
Alabama beat LSU 21–20. It was their 23rd meeting; after it, Alabama led the series 14–5–3 in the games on file.
FinalHigh 90°F, low 53°FAttendance 34,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, September 28, 1952, page 64
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AIubumu’s Lute Drive Noses Out LSU, 2l-20 BATON ROUGE. La, Sept. 81. Bobby Luna climaxed a 75-yard drive in the fourth period with a three-yard touchdown thrust and a game winning conversion to give Alabama a 21–20 Southeast ern Conference football victory over stubborn Louisiana State University tonight. The Alabama team physician. DR.. Joe Hirsch of Birmingham. dropped dead at the game during the third quarter.
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)
LSU 58% to win. Alabama won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Alabama–LSU gameOfficially, Alabama leads 58–27–5; as played, 58–26–5 in the 89 games on file; the official count covers all 90 meetings, counting the 67 since this game.
| 2025 | Alabama 20, LSU 9 | |
| 2024 | Alabama 42, LSU 13 | |
| 2023 | Alabama 42, LSU 28 | |
| 2022 | LSU 32, Alabama 31 | |
| 2021 | Alabama 20, LSU 14 | |
| 2020 | Alabama 55, LSU 17 |
Around this game
Alabama
- Next gameat MiamiOct. 3, 1952
- SeasonAlabama in 1952
- ProgramAlabama history and records
LSU
- Next gameat RiceOct. 4, 1952
- SeasonLSU in 1952
- ProgramLSU history and records

