NEW YORK CHARITY GAME
0 0
13 0 0 0
1939 ORANGE BOWL
0 0
-
13 0
TENNESSEE OKLAHOMA
7 0
3 0 0 0
7 0
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17 0
TENN 8 42-109 13 8-1 122 50 3-2 1-5 11-40
NYU 8 46-77 171 23-9 248 89 1-0 10-90 9-31
TENN 15 51-197 63 13-4-0 64 260 2-1 16-130 12-36
RUSHING Att Gain Coffman 12 64 Cafego 13 58 PASSING Att Comp Wood 5 2 RECEIVING No Yds Cifers 1 23
TENNESSEE Lost Net 8 56 13 45 Int Yds 0 40 TD Lg 0 23
RUSHING Att Gain McCullough 9 20 PASSING Att Comp McCullough 19 7 RECEIVING No Yds Clark 3 30
OKLAHOMA Lost Net 11 9 Int Yds 1 37 TD Lg 0 23
OKLA 6 16-25 69 27-10-1 43 94 4-3 9-90 13-40
TD 1 0 TD 0
Lg 24 19 Lg 23
TD 0 TD 0
Lg 7 Lg 22
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RECORDS
TEAM STATISTICS First Downs Rushes-Yards Passing Yards Passes (Att.-Comp.) Total Offense Total Offensive Plays Fumbles-Lost Penalties-Yards Punts-Average
TEAM STATISTICS First Downs Rushing Yards Passing Yards Passes (Att.-Comp.-Int.) Total Offensive Plays Total Offensive Yards Fumbles-Lost Penalties-Yards Punts-Average
VOLMANAC
SCORING SUMMARY TENN — Feathers 65 run (McEver run) TENN — Brackett 75 punt return (Kick failed)
SCORING SUMMARY TENN — Foxx 8 run (Wyatt run) TENN — Wyatt 32 FG TENN — Wood 19 run (Foxx kick)
HONORS
MIAMI — Tennessee and Oklahoma squared off in the 1939 Orange Bowl in a classic battle of speed against size. And, when it was over, Tennessee’s speed and stamina had won out by a 17-0 count. Tennessee had come into the game undefeated and No. 2 in the country and Oklahoma was riding a 14-game winning streak. Tennessee scored first when a 15-yard penalty backed the Sooners to their 3-yard line. Vol tailback George Cafego returned the ensuing punt to the Sooner 27 and followed up the punt return with a key gain to the 12. Two plays later, Bob Foxx scored from the 8. The Vols scored a field goal after a Sooner fumble, a 22-yarder by Bowden Wyatt, and led 10-0 at the half. Tennessee scored its final touchdown in the fourth quarter on a 19-yard run by Babe Wood on a reverse. The Vols polished off their eighth shutout of the season by stopping the Sooners the rest of the way and finished undefeated in 11 games. It was a penalty-plagued game as tempers flared throughout the contest and more than 200 yards were assessed against the teams.
HISTORY
NEW YORK — It didn’t count, at least according to NCAA statisticians, but Tennessee’s first post-season bowl appearance came in the 1931 Charity Bowl game at Yankee Stadium. The game was set up by New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker and was an intersectional clash between the Vols and the Violets of New York University. The Vols were 8-0-1 in 1931, with a 6-6 deadlock against Kentucky marring an otherwise perfect season. It was Capt. Neyland’s sixth year at the Vol helm and the Vols had compiled a 52-2-4 overall record through the end of the 1931 season. Herman Hickman’s sensational defensive play earned him a spot on Grantland Rice’s 1931 All-America team. Rice was so impressed with Hickman’s performance that he named him to his All-America team on the basis of the Charity Bowl game alone. Three future Vol College Football Hall of Fame members, Gene McEver, Beattie Feathers and Hickman, played in the contest. In addition, Capt. Neyland would also be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1956. The Vols’ second trip to New York was much better than their first. Seven years earlier, the Vols had lost to Army 41-0 at West Point. Feathers and Deke Brackett had long touchdown runs and Hickman anchored the Vol defense as Tennessee defeated the Violets by a 13-0 count. The game was one of a number of contests played during the Great Depression (mainly in 1931) to raise money for relief of the unemployed in response to the President’s Committee on Mobilization of Relief Resources. In addition to the Charity Bowl, the Army-Navy games of 1930 and 1931 were played at Yankee Stadium. The NCAA does not recognize these games in the all-time bowl game records.
REVIEW
Jan, 2, 1939
PLAYERS
Dec. 5, 1931
STAFF
TENNESSEE NEW YORK U.
GENERAL
BOWL RECAPS
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