Centenary (LA) at Baylor

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  Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, Texas, October 23, 1927, page 1

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  FROCSFICHT FARMERSTO FURIOUS TIE L~onghorns Trim Owls, Bears Grapple With Centenary Gentle men, Lose Sc men, Lose GO DALLAS, Tex, Oct. 22.-tP-Missouri, University Tigers, big and dangerous. fell before the willy Southern Methodist University Mus tangs at Fair Park Stadium here today 80 to 9 in a gridiron battle that will long be remembered BY 10000 spectators. The powerful Missourians were shown a new brand of defense, a nearly perfect aerial attack, and ground gaining runs. The Mus tang line which had been considered weak. upset the dope and baked the Tigers line rushes. The fleet Pony backs and ends time and again wrecked Missouri’s attempts at triple and long pass. In most quarters il had been thought that the Missourians had the edge on the 1926 southwest con ference champions, who had tied the Tigers at Columbia z and z last year. Under the guidance Of Quarterback Mann, the Ponies ripped through the Tiger line and completed pass after pass. through the combinations of Mann and Dawson, and Mann and Hume. Flamank, the touted Tiger quarter, fell before the Mustangs defense against air raids. His long psases, sometimes nearly fifty yards, were knocked down or incompleted with the exception Of a few. Missouri’s touchdown came in che second guar ter after the only successful air at tack they staged. Flamank passed 80 yards 10 Clark. who put the ball on the Mustangs seven yard line. Flamank passed to Clark I’ve the line for the touch down. Mascholff kicked goal. The safety came after Missouri had fumbled on the Mustangs two-yard line, and the Mustang center made a bad pass TO Hume, who had intended to punt. Dawson of the Mustangs was the outstanding player Of the game. FORT WORTH, Tex, Oct. 22.-(R, The Texas Christian University Horned Frogs and the Texas A. & NJ. Aggies fought to q nothing to nothing tie here today before a crowd estimated at more than Is, 900, the largest ever to see a football game in Fort Worth. II was a spectators game from start to finish, featured by sensational forward passing. several brilliant end runs, and hard tackling between two teams apparently equally matched. Felix Reynolds, giant 200-pound tackle, was the outstanding star for the Christians, ms he broke up many Of the Aggies’ pet plays, while Hunt. famous quarterback, starred in all departments for the Farmers. WACO. Texas. Oct. 22.--(P)-Although outplayed for three quarters, the Centenary Gentlemen managed to los out the Baylor Bears on the Cotton Palace grid today, &c. A Is yard pass from Hanna to Smith, the latter racing SIS yards for a touch down, saved the game for the Gentle men early in the last quarter. Jennings dropkicked goal for three Centenary tallies early in the first quarter. Baylor scored her touch down as n result Of line plunges BY Reyes and off-tackle slashes featuring Washam, who played q highly consistent game all the way. Washam carried the oval across the line with ls-yard end runs. Allday’s brilliant work in the broken field and Hanna’s defensive work were the high lights of the Centenary victory. Summary: Score by quarters: centenary 3OO6–⁠9 baylor O60O-6 First down score Baylor 10; Cen tenary 5. AUSTIN. Tex, Oct. 22.-(PI-The old Oak Cliff nigh school passing combination Of Joe King and Dusty Rhoades worked 70 perfection Saturday for Texas University and gave IL the means Of its 81 to 0 victory over the Rice Institute Owls of Houston. This pair Of football stars from Dallas completed six long passes that gained more thar a hundred yards and resulted in three touch downs late in the game, doubly cinching a victory already apparent for Texas. The University had got ten off to an early 7 to 0 lead with a touchdown by Hughes from the Rice one yard line. The line of Rice turned out to be the strength Of the team II held the Longhorns for nearly two quartiers and the anne might have been far less satisfactory to Texas If the Longhorns had not resorted TO the air in the final period. Thrust after thrust Of the Texas backs was smear ed on the line OF scrimmage. Spud Braden starred for Rice.

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Centenary (LA) leads 7–⁠5 in 12 meetings, counting the 11 since this game.