Kentucky vs. Ole Miss
Saturday, September 25, 1954 Share
No. 9 Ole Miss beat Kentucky 28–9. It was their 11th meeting; after it, Ole Miss led the series 6–4–1 as played.
FinalHigh 95°F, low 64°FAttendance 28,545
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, September 28, 1954, page 21
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Maryland take a walk and sleep Az hours upon arrival and then go through light workout near the hotel. The latter is a departure from Iatum custom. but the team still will not work out “a hours before game time. Big Jim said Maryland would be ready now for UCLA if the latter were a Information team. but with Red Sanders the top slngle-Wing coach in the country, Tatum said the Terps still had lot OF work to do on defense. When Maryland met single wing Tennessee in the Sugar Bowl after the 1852 season, the coaching problem was different. That was the day of two-platoon football. and only the defensive team had to worry about the slngle-wing style. Now every player must be prepared. Bruins Powerful Again. In it’s 67-O rout of San Diego Navy, which proved nothing, and 32–7 triumph over Kansas, the Bruins appeared to be as good or better than the team that won the Pacific Coast Confer ence title last year, then lost a close battle to Michigan. State in the Rose Bowl game. In fact. Sanders has said this team could be better than last years, but would have to be in view of expected improvement by other Pacific Coast Confer ence teams. The loss of Paul Cameron, the ALL American tail back, and Bill Sits, wingback now with the Detroit Lions, is not being felt as much as had been expected. UCLA was able to use it’s third stringers in the last quarter of the Kansas game and one of them. Don Shinnick, 220pound fullback. was good enough to run 73 yards for the final touchdown. NOTES-Tatum noted that Kentucky completed more passes against Mississippi, the South eastern Conference favorite, last Saturday than it cid against Maryland the previous week. It was close, 18 to Is. The Wild cats lost 900 to Maryland and 28–9 to Ole Miss. Don King, who Clemson thinks is the best quarterback in the countrv, did not get into the Georgia game last Saturday, which Clemson lost, 14–7. Maryland may have a sleeper on it’s schedule in Miami according to Morris McLemore. sports editor of the Miami Daily News, who was a visitor at College Park yesterday while en- route to the World Series. The Hurricanes will know more after playing Baylor this week. Miami is building toward its 1855 start of Georgia Tech and Notre Dame in two of its first three games. Kansas had first down On UCLA’s 4-yard line on Saturday and failed to score in four plays. which gives coy,,e ;rao nf the pr,riY1S, 6afaoSc
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)
Ole Miss 54% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Kentucky–Ole Miss gameOfficially, Ole Miss leads 30–15–1; as played, 31–15–1 in 47 meetings, counting the 36 since this game.
| 2025 | Ole Miss 30, Kentucky 23 | |
| 2024 | Kentucky 20, Ole Miss 17 | |
| 2022 | Ole Miss 22, Kentucky 19 | |
| 2020 | Ole Miss 42, Kentucky 41 | |
| 2017 | Ole Miss 37, Kentucky 34 | |
| 2011 | Kentucky 30, Ole Miss 13 |
Around this game
Kentucky
- Next gamevs. LSUOct. 2, 1954
- SeasonKentucky in 1954
- ProgramKentucky history and records
Ole Miss
- Next gameat VillanovaOct. 2, 1954
- SeasonOle Miss in 1954
- ProgramOle Miss history and records

