Texas Tech at Texas

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  Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, Texas, October 7, 1928, page 1

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  TEXAS Tech HARD MATCH FOR STEERS University Runs In Regulars to Turn Trick; Win By a IL To 0 Score AUSTIN, Oct. 6.-(P1-A powerful defensive BY the Texas Neurological Matsdors from Lubbock held Texas University scoreless for more than two periods today, but finally broke under ~onslaughts of the Longhorn first string squad, which extended itself to win, II to 0, after the second team starters had made the game look dubious. S~emi-tropical heat and the i’m pacts Of heavy lines kept up a con tinual recurrence of time out while player after player was draped flat on the green. Fumbles and weak punts with neither side able to do much in the air, ruled the first half, but the Longhorns opened the second half with q bang. King, who led the Long horn offense most of the game, Bald win and Beular marched down the field with successive line plunges and King plunged over for the first touchdown. Captain Ransom Walker, former Texas University freshman player and L. Walker were in the thick of the Matador o~ffense. Ransom ran the ball back 30 yards on the kick off. Coach Littlefield Of the L~onghorns soon saw that he was up against no set-up in Tech and jerked some OF his second stringers. BY the second half. Texas University had a first string squad on the field. The Imam.

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Texas leads 55–⁠18 in 73 meetings, counting the 72 since this game.