Tennessee at Vanderbilt
Saturday, October 17, 1903 Share
Vanderbilt beat Tennessee 40–0. It was their sixth meeting; after it, Vanderbilt led the series 2–0 in the games on file.
Final
In the newspapers

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.
The series
Every Tennessee–Vanderbilt gameOfficially, 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.
Around this game
Tennessee
- Next gameat South CarolinaOct. 29, 1903
- SeasonTennessee in 1903
- ProgramTennessee history and records
Vanderbilt
- Next gamevs. Ole MissOct. 24, 1903
- SeasonVanderbilt in 1903
- ProgramVanderbilt history and records

