diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/solr/analysis/HTMLStripStandardTokenizerFactory.java b/src/java/org/apache/solr/analysis/HTMLStripStandardTokenizerFactory.java
index beae721ea0b..99ea361a8ae 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/solr/analysis/HTMLStripStandardTokenizerFactory.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/solr/analysis/HTMLStripStandardTokenizerFactory.java
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ import org.apache.lucene.util.Version;
 @Deprecated
 public class HTMLStripStandardTokenizerFactory extends BaseTokenizerFactory {
   public Tokenizer create(Reader input) {
-    return new StandardTokenizer(Version.LUCENE_24, new HTMLStripReader(input));
+    assureMatchVersion();
+    return new StandardTokenizer(luceneMatchVersion, new HTMLStripReader(input));
     // nocommit: what to do about this?
 //    new HTMLStripReader(input)) {
 //      @Override