Sewanee vs. Texas

Sewanee and Texas have 5 meetings on file, the first in 1902; Texas leads the series 4–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Texas 4–⁠1, and Texas has won the last 2.

Sewanee wins
1
Texas wins
4
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1902
Longest streak
2 Texas
Current streak
2 Texas
Last 10 meetings
Texas 4–⁠1
Most recent
1915

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s0–⁠2
1910s1–⁠2
Average margin
9.2 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Texas
4–⁠1 Texas’s record at home
Shutouts
1

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Sewanee’s biggest win1911: Sewanee 6, Texas 5by 1 points
  2. Texas’s biggest win1915: Texas 27, Sewanee 6by 21 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Sewanee and Texas, 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 Montgomery advertiser's story of the 1905 game: sEwANEE IS CONFIDENT. Thinks 1t Will Have No Trouble in De. feating Alabama.

    1905 · The Montgomery advertiser, Nov 20, 1905

  • The Tulsa daily world's story of the 1911 game: SEWANEE VICTORIOUS BY score 6 TO 5 DURING SECOND HALE, TEXAS LONGIlORNS HAVE RINGS PLAYED AROUND 'EM.

    1911 · Tulsa daily world, Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.], Nov 3, 1911

  • The Atlanta Georgian's story of the 1913 game: TEXAS DEFEATS SEWANEE BY A SCORE Of 1877 Lone Star State Team Altogether Too Fast for Tennesseans in Hard Battle.

    1913 · Atlanta Georgian, Atlanta, Ga., Oct 27, 1913

  • The Rock Island Argus's story of the 1915 game: FOOTBALL RESULTS HIGH SCHOOL.

    1915 · Rock Island Argus, Rock Island, Ill., Nov 8, 1915

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

Nov 6, 1915Texas 27, Sewanee 6at Texas
Oct 25, 1913Texas 13, Sewanee 7at Texas
Nov 2, 1911Sewanee 6, Texas 5at Texas
Nov 17, 1905Texas 17, Sewanee 10at Texas
Oct 10, 1902Texas 11, Sewanee 0at Texas

Every game is listed as played on the field.