Texas at Baylor

Saturday, November 8, 1941

No. 1 Texas and Baylor tied 7–⁠7. It was their 33rd meeting; after it, Texas led the series 20–⁠8–⁠4 in the games on file.

Away1Texas8–⁠1–⁠1 in 1941
7
HomeBaylor3–⁠6–⁠1 in 1941
7

FinalHigh 68°F, low 42°F

In the newspapers

  • The Detroit evening times's story: Texas j Tied By Baylor, II

    Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, November 9, 1941, page 1

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    Texas j Tied By Baylor, II WACO. Tex. Nov. s.-Baylor’, amazing Bears, kicked around By previous opponents this season dropped beHhshei on the foot. ball world today by scoring 4 touchdown in the last minute oi play TO gain Z 10 7 tie with the University of Texas wonder team. Kit Kittrell. a slippery sophomore back. spanked the drive with passes and dazzling broken field running. finally connecting with another substitute, Bill Coleman, deep in the end zone for the counter. Wilson hobbled out TO split the uprights, and Texas string of SIX straight victories was no more Baylor purpoSely kicked out of bounds as the clock showed but Is seconds TO play. Pete Layden, injured Texas captain. was inserted for the sec ond time, and connected 25 yards TO Grain across the midfeld stripe as the gun sounded. Fans streamed on the sod. but officials shooed them back. as Grain had called time out as he hit the ground. Layden shot one more desperate pass 10 Doss on the goal line, a 60-yard toss, but the Bears were there. and the game ended 7-all.

  • The Evening star's story: Baylor Jo Texas With TT Game; Stanford Trims Southern California Wade Rates Luch With Best Backs

    Evening star, November 9, 1941, page 41

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    Baylor Jo Texas With TT Game; Stanford Trims Southern California Wade Rates Luch With Best Backs BY tne ASSOCIATED P1eH1. DURHAM. N. C.-Steve Lach- “As good a back as we ever had And that from taciturn Wal lace Wade of Duke is something. For Wade can recall the exploits of such sterling former Blue Devil backs as Ace Parker, now of Brooklyn’s Dodgers and voted pro footballs best last season. George McAfee of Chicaeo’s rampaging Bears, and Eric (Ihe RedD Upton, whose sure-foot literally kicked Duke into the Rose Bowl back In 1883.

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.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Texas 71% to win.

Officially, Texas leads 81–⁠28–⁠4; as played, 79–⁠28–⁠5 in the 112 games on file; the official count covers all 113 meetings, counting the 80 since this game.

Recent meetings
2023Texas 38, Baylor 6
2022Texas 38, Baylor 27
2021Baylor 31, Texas 24
2020Texas 27, Baylor 16
2019Baylor 24, Texas 10
2018Texas 23, Baylor 17

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