Sewanee at Tulane

Saturday, November 4, 1911

Sewanee beat Tulane 9–⁠3. It was their third meeting; after it, Sewanee led the series 3–⁠0.

AwaySewanee6–⁠3–⁠1 in 1911
9
HomeTulane5–⁠3–⁠1 in 1911
3

Final

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: sEwANEE, .; TULANE, 3. Touchdown Scored on q Blocked Kick.

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 5, 1911, page 1

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    sEwANEE, .; TULANE, 3. Touchdown Scored on q Blocked Kick. NEW ORLEANS, La, November A. The Sewanee foot ball squad defeated Tulane, 8 to 3. at the stadium here this afternoon In a rough and holly contest ed game in which nearly everything in the foot ball catalogue was tried by both sides. With the score 3 to 3. in the last quarter, Swain, Sewanees substitute right halfback, blocked kick on Tulane 3O-yard line, picked up the ball on the run. and scored the only touchdown. Nc Callahan, left end, kicked clean goa. In the second quarter. Gillian of Sewanee kicked field goal from the 30 yard line. Tulane took a brace and by forward passes and end runs. aided by Sewanee’s fumbles. carried the ball to Sewanees territory, where Walmsley kicked a field goal from the 3O-yard line. Tulane was held for downs on Sewanee’s 3-yard line in the third quarter.

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)

Sewanee 65% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Tulane leads 13–⁠4 in 17 meetings, counting the 14 since this game.

Recent meetings
1939Tulane 52, Sewanee 0
1938Tulane 38, Sewanee 0
1937Tulane 33, Sewanee 7
1936Tulane 53, Sewanee 6
1935Tulane 33, Sewanee 0
1934Tulane 32, Sewanee 0

Around this game

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