Tennessee at Vanderbilt

Saturday, October 17, 1903

Vanderbilt beat Tennessee 40–⁠0. It was their sixth meeting; after it, Vanderbilt led the series 2–⁠0 in the games on file.

AwayTennessee4–⁠5 in 1903
0
HomeVanderbilt6–⁠1–⁠1 in 1903
40

Final

In the newspapers

  • The The Columbia herald's story

    The Columbia herald, Columbia, Tenn., October 23, 1903, page 3

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    The Mooney team from Murfreesboro surprised the foot ball fans of the State Saturday at Nashville by defeat ing the University of Nashville eleven by a score of II to 5. Vanderbilt also shut out the University of Tennessee team from Knoxville 40 to 0.

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)

Vanderbilt 61% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, Tennessee leads 79–⁠33–⁠5; as played, 81–⁠31–⁠4 in the 116 games on file; the official count covers all 120 meetings, counting the 114 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Vanderbilt 45, Tennessee 24
2024Tennessee 36, Vanderbilt 23
2023Tennessee 48, Vanderbilt 24
2022Tennessee 56, Vanderbilt 0
2021Tennessee 45, Vanderbilt 21
2020Tennessee 42, Vanderbilt 17

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