SMU at Texas

Saturday, November 3, 1956

SMU beat Texas 20–⁠19. It was their 36th meeting; after it, Texas led the series 17–⁠15–⁠4.

AwaySMU4–⁠6 in 1956
20
HomeTexas1–⁠9 in 1956
19

FinalHigh 55°F, low 49°F, 0.94 in. of rainAttendance 36,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Texas Reilly Falls Short As Mustangs Win, 20-19

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 4, 1956, page 67

    Read the text

    Texas Reilly Falls Short As Mustangs Win, 20–⁠19 AUSTIN. Texas, Nov. 3 (R.- Trailing 400 at the half, q fired UP Texas football team roared back in the second half today to come within an eyelash Of up setting Southern Methodist before falling. 20–⁠19. Charlie Arnold and Larry Click, the Mustangs fine quarterbacks, shot three first half touchdown passes while the hapless Long

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)

SMU 59% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Texas leads 47–⁠22–⁠4 in 73 meetings, counting the 37 since this game.

Recent meetings
1995Texas 35, SMU 10
1994Texas 42, SMU 20
1993Texas 37, SMU 10
1992Texas 35, SMU 14
1991Texas 34, SMU 0
1990Texas 52, SMU 3

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