SMU at Baylor

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 19, 1930, page 70

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  SOUTHERN METHODIST TIES BAYLOR, 14–⁠14 Golden Bears Save Selves From De feat by Spectacular Pass in Final Two Minutes. NJ the Associated Press. WACO, Tex, october 18.-Baylor uniyersity’s Golden Bears supplied the 1lrst big upset Of the 1880 Southwest Conference campaign by battling South ern Methodist University to Q sensationAl 14-to-l4 draw before $4,000 fans here today. Pushing back deep into their own territory with less than two minutes to play and the Methodists leading by z points, the Bruins gambled and won. Afford, surrounded by rushing mustang linesmen, dropped back and pegged a perfect pass to McEireath, speedy lit tie halfback, who eluded two members of the Pony secondary and romped IS yards for the score that sent Baylor’s edherents into senli-hysterta. Nc Eireath kicked goal. Southern Methodist accounted for IA Arst downs to IL for Baylor. IdFR-liF1 and SUMMARY.

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  The Indianapolis times, Indiana, October 20, 1930, page 10

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  Southwestern League Race Looms Close BIZ United Press DALLAS, Tex, Oct. 20.-Ths melting pot of gridiron experience has leveled preseason inequalities in the Southwestern Conference and made a close race of the PEN nant grind which had two favorites before the weekend games. Unexpected strength was shown on four fields, and at least two more teams must be counted in the thick of the fight. Texas university snothered Oklahoma Sooners under a 17–⁠7 score. Southern Methodist. preseason favorites, had a setback at the hands of the Baylor elevens and were tied 14–⁠14. Texas Christians won a 30 victory over The Texas Aggies. The Rice Owls took 7–⁠6 defeat from Arkansas university.

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  New Britain herald, October 20, 1930, page 10 (results column)

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  GRIDIRON HEROES By the Associated Press. Frank Baker, Northwestern – Took two passes and intercepted an other for three touchdoWns against Illinois. Jim Bausch, Kansas-Ran 95 and 59 yards for touchdowns. kicked both points as Kansas beat Kansas Aggies, 14–⁠0. Albe Booth, Yale-Led Ellis to 21–⁠0 victory over Brown, scoring one touchdown, putting another in position to score, and kicking field goal. Johnny Kitzmiller, Oregon – Shared forward pass and dashed away for touchdown that beat Wash iI.gton, 70. Jack Roberts, Georgia–Smashed three touchdowns. McElreath. Baylor-Caught pass in last two minutes of play and ran 65 yards for touchdown that gave Baylor 14–⁠14 tie with Southern Methodist.

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 text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Baylor leads 40–⁠36–⁠7 in 83 meetings, counting the 68 since this game.