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Sewanee vs. Tennessee

Sewanee and Tennessee have 18 meetings on file, the first in 1902; Tennessee leads the series 12–⁠6 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Tennessee 10–⁠0, and Tennessee has won the last 11.

Sewanee wins
6
Tennessee wins
12
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1902
Longest streak
11 Tennessee
Current streak
11 Tennessee
Last 10 meetings
Tennessee 10–⁠0
Most recent
1939

The series at a glance

’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s4–⁠1
1910s2–⁠2
1920s0–⁠6
1930s0–⁠3
Average margin
18.6 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Sewanee
3–⁠1 Sewanee’s record at home
At Tennessee
11–⁠3 Tennessee’s record at home
Shutouts
11

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Games that tell the story

  1. Sewanee’s biggest win1912: Sewanee 33, Tennessee 6by 27 points
  2. Tennessee’s biggest win1939: Tennessee 40, Sewanee 0by 40 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Sewanee and Tennessee, 1902 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

From the newspapers

  • The The Birmingham age-herald's story of the 1902 game: TENNESSEE GIVES SEWANEE DRUBBING Proud Wearers of the Purple Go Down Before the University Lads By Score of to o-Matched.

    1902 · The Birmingham age-herald, Alabama, Nov 2, 1902

  • The The Birmingham age-herald's story of the 1903 game: DARTMOUTH GIVES HARVARD A DRUBBlNG.

    1903 · The Birmingham age-herald, Alabama, Nov 15, 1903

  • The The semi-weekly messenger's story of the 1905 game: U. i. c LOSES To V.P.I. IS To s Decisive Defeat to Carolina BY Virginia Cadets CARPENTER WAS STAR PLAYER Carolina Developed Great Strength i'm Defense-YaIe Wins From the Army and Princeton Defeats Columbia. Sewanee and Vanderbilt are Victors Over Tennessee and Texas.

    1905 · The semi-weekly messenger, Wilmington, N.C., Oct 31, 1905

  • The The Birmingham age-herald's story of the 1912 game: SEWANEE DEFEATS TENNESSEE B ID 3 IN RAGGED CONTEST Tigers Show Strong Line. All Points Scored in First Half

    1912 · The Birmingham age-herald, Alabama, Oct 27, 1912

  • The The Birmingham age-herald's story of the 1913 game: SEWANEE TIGERS DOWN TENNESSEE BY II TO g SCORE

    1913 · The Birmingham age-herald, Birmingham, Ala., Oct 19, 1913

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 earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Every game

Oct 7, 1939Tennessee 40, Sewanee 0at Tennessee
Sep 24, 1938Tennessee 26, Sewanee 3at Tennessee
Oct 23, 1937Tennessee 32, Sewanee 0at Tennessee
Nov 10, 1928Tennessee 37, Sewanee 0at Tennessee
Nov 5, 1927Tennessee 32, Sewanee 12at Tennessee
Nov 6, 1926Tennessee 12, Sewanee 0at Tennessee
Nov 18, 1922Tennessee 18, Sewanee 7at Tennessee
Nov 12, 1921Tennessee 21, Sewanee 0at Tennessee
Nov 13, 1920Tennessee 20, Sewanee 0at Sewanee
Nov 18, 1916Tennessee 17, Sewanee 0at Tennessee
Nov 14, 1914Tennessee 14, Sewanee 7at Tennessee
Oct 18, 1913Sewanee 17, Tennessee 6at Sewanee
Oct 26, 1912Sewanee 33, Tennessee 6at Sewanee
Nov 3, 1906Sewanee 17, Tennessee 0at Tennessee
Oct 28, 1905Sewanee 11, Tennessee 6at Sewanee
Oct 29, 1904Sewanee 12, Tennessee 0at Tennessee
Nov 14, 1903Sewanee 17, Tennessee 0at Tennessee
Nov 1, 1902Tennessee 6, Sewanee 0at Tennessee

Every game is listed as played on the field.