Texas at Florida

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, December 8, 1940, page 35

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  Near-FIawIess Texas .Sparked by Layden, .Crushes Florida Hord-Hittine FuIIbock Bags Two Touchdowns In 26–⁠0 Victory BY the Associated FItSS GAINESVILLE. Fla. Dec. THE University of Texas Longhorns, US ing their first team sparingly, crushed one of the best Florida foot ball teams in years. rs to 0, here today before 10000 fans. The Texas eleven played near fiawless ball throughout and had power and speed to burn. Hard-hitting Pete Layden, versatile fullback, perhaps was the out standing player on the field, but there were so many stars there was no keeping track of them. Layden personally scored two touchdowns and passed the ball on another play on which Cowboy Jack Grain scored a third tally. The fourth Texas score was made by Reserve End Jack Searle on 33-yard pass from Halfback Wal ter Heap, a substitute. Penalty Helps Texas. A 15-yard penalty against Florida for having ineligible receivers down. field on a pass by Tommy Harrison and a partial block of Harrison’s subsequent kick set up the first Tex as score, the Longhorns taking the ball on the Florida 38-yard line. / Grain and Layden bucked down to the Florida 5. and two plays later Layden passed to End Preston Flanagan, who lateraled to Grain for | the first Texas score. The next touchdown came in the second quarter with reserve team on the field, r. L. Harkins and Heap moving the ball from the Texas % to the Florida 33, from where Heap threw to Searle for the touchdown. Layden Gets Across. A 90-yard drive in the fourth quarter, with the Texas first team back on the field, led to the third touchdown. Layden bucked over from the l. The final score was set up by a neat forward lateral from Layden to Flanagan to Grain that carried to the Florida 5. Layden bucked it over in two plays. Grain kicked extra points after the first and third touchdowns. 1t was the final game of the season for both teams and was Floridas fifth defeat of the year against | five victories. Texas lost only two.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, December 9, 1940, page 7

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  FOOT BAIL @ 5a{3SW{2 IFS Nn The following are scores of fina football games played last Satuf- day afternoon: Notre Dame 10; Southern Cali fofnia 6. Texas Tech 23; University of Sar Francisco 21. Auburn 13; Villanova 10. Morris Brown 28; Kentucky Statt 6. Rice 6; Southern Methodist T. Texas 26; Florida 0. South Carolina 3l; Citadel 6.

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  The Nome nugget, December 13, 1940, page 1

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  Football Scores Notre Dame 10-Southern Cal iforn;a 6 Texas Tech 23-University of San Francisco 21 Auburn 15-Villanova 10 Morris Brown 28 - Kentucky State 6 Rice 6-Southcrn Methodist ‘ Texas 26-Florida 0 Fr sro Ca if, State 0-Arkan- SaS State Teachers 10 South Carolina 31-The Cita- del 6

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.

Texas leads 3–⁠2–⁠1 in six meetings, counting the three since this game.