Tulane at Mississippi State

Monday, November 20, 1911

Tulane beat Mississippi State 5–⁠4. It was their sixth meeting; after it, Tulane led the series 4–⁠1–⁠1.

AwayTulane5–⁠3–⁠1 in 1911
5
HomeMississippi State7–⁠2–⁠1 in 1911
4

FinalHigh 76°F, low 41°F

In the newspapers

  • The East Mississippi times's story: Tulane Defeats A & M.

    East Mississippi times, Starkville, Miss., November 24, 1911, page 1

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    Tulane Defeats A & M. The last game of foot ball that will be played on the A. M. Cam pus this season was the game between Tulane University, of New Orleans and the Mississippi A. & M. College which resulted in 4 to 5 in favor of Tulane. A large crowd went out from the city and it is estimated that over a thousand people witnessed the game. Aggressive playing enabled Tulane to win. The A. & M. score came as a result of two safeties and Tulane’s followed touchdown in the second quarter. Tulane worked the forward pass steadily the A. & M. eleven fail ing to work the same tactic, The Tulane team left Tuesday morning, in their special car, via l. G. railroad, for New Orleans.

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)

Mississippi State 77% to win. Tulane pulled the upset.

Mississippi State leads 30–⁠25–⁠1 in 56 meetings, counting the 50 since this game.

Recent meetings
2007Mississippi State 38, Tulane 17
2006Tulane 32, Mississippi State 29
2005Mississippi State 21, Tulane 14
2004Mississippi State 28, Tulane 7
2003Tulane 31, Mississippi State 28
1994Mississippi State 66, Tulane 22

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