Oklahoma vs. Texas

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 13, 1940, page 32

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  Grain Sparks Texas To 1916 Victory Over Oklahoma BY the Associated freSs DALLAS, Oct. 12-Cowboy Jack Grain clattered down shadow-swept sidelines after all seemed lost today to pull Texas through to dramatic, 1916 football triumph over numbed Oklahoma. Forced to their knees at the outset by bronzed Jack Jacobs. Greek IN dian brave and a football player, Texas finally grabbed Grains coat tails and a vital break to pull the game out of the fire. Ironically. the steadiest man on the Oklahoma club gave Texas the final chance at victory. Deep In the fourth period. with Oklahoma backed down to its %, the veteran center. Cliff Speegle, bobbled his snapback to Jacobs for fourth down kick. The Texans swarmed in on Jacobs on the Sooner II and took possess sion. Five yards for a defensive holding penalty pushed them closer to the goal, then Grain swung deep around his left end for the winning touchdown. Just as the third period ended Grain revived his tagging Texans with a typical Grain dash-a g. yard chunk of magic through the Oklahoma team he cooked up after bagging lateral.

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  The Nome nugget, Alaska, October 14, 1940, page 1 (results column)

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  Football Scores SATURDAY, Oct. 12, (P) - Michigan State 20-Purduc Il Columbia 20-Dartmouth Colgate 20-BroWn 3 Navy 12-Princeton 6 Fordham 20-Tulane ‘ Southern Methodisct Pitts burg ‘ Syracuse AZ New York Uni versity 13 Cornell 45-Army 0 Pennsylvania 50-Yale ‘ North Carolina 21 - Texas Christian II Holy Cross 18-Carnegie Tech 0. Michigan 26-Hardvard 0 Boston College 33-Temple 20 Nebraska 13-Indiana 2 Notre Dame-26 Georgia Tech 26. Southern Cal. 13-Illinois Ohio State 3-Northwestern 6 Mississippi 28-Georgia IA Missouri 24-Kansas State l3 Wisconsin 12-IoWa 30 West Virginia 13-Penn State IT, Auburn 7-Mississippi State ‘ Lake Forrest 0-Clemson 39 Tennessee 53-Chattanooga 0 Oklahoma 16-Texas 19 Kentucky 7-Vanderbilt T. Washington 10-Oregon 0. Gonzaga 25-Idaho 0 Washington 9-California 6 Stanford 7-Santa Clara 6 Texas A and M 7-Ucla 0

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Officially, Texas leads 65–⁠52–⁠5; as played, 62–⁠52–⁠5 in the 119 games on file; the official count covers all 122 meetings, counting the 87 since this game.