SMU at Texas
Saturday, November 3, 1956 Share
SMU beat Texas 20–19. It was their 36th meeting; after it, Texas led the series 17–15–4.
FinalHigh 55°F, low 49°F, 0.94 in. of rainAttendance 36,000
In the newspapers

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.
The series
Every SMU–Texas gameTexas leads 47–22–4 in 73 meetings, counting the 37 since this game.
| 1995 | Texas 35, SMU 10 | |
| 1994 | Texas 42, SMU 20 | |
| 1993 | Texas 37, SMU 10 | |
| 1992 | Texas 35, SMU 14 | |
| 1991 | Texas 34, SMU 0 | |
| 1990 | Texas 52, SMU 3 |
Around this game
SMU
- Next gamevs. Texas A&MNov. 10, 1956
- SeasonSMU in 1956
- ProgramSMU history and records
Texas
- Next gameat BaylorNov. 10, 1956
- SeasonTexas in 1956
- ProgramTexas history and records

