Baylor at Texas

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 9, 1947, page 41

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  aa af Sports U Rally Routs Mount ST. Mays 26O Texas Sticks in TitIe-Running With 28–⁠7 Edge Over Baylor With Bobby Layne completing passes at crucial moments, the Longhorns drove IS yards for their first touchdown, Substitute Fullback Ray Borneman stepping IL yards off left tackle for the score. Frank Guess kicked his first Of four extra points to knot the count. With half a minute remaining In the half, Fullback Ray Jones intercepted Baylor pass and on the first play ran 80 yards to the Baylor Al. Then Layne shot a long one to End Poppy Blount, who took 1t on the 3 and galloped across. Texas cut loose for two markers in the fourth. Sticking to straight power. Texas marched II yards to score on a bullet plunge by Right Half Jim Canady from the 2-yard line. Guess remained in the game after annexing his third extra point, sand sped % yards to a touchdown.

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  The Wilmington morning star, November 10, 1947, page 3 (results column)

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  oFer ARMY. Inc BLACK hnlghtS OF the Hudson were in there battling all the way but the peerless pig skin machine from South Bend made it look easy from the early seconds of the game when Terry Brennan ran the opening kickoff back for 95 yards and the touch down that spelled the end OF Army’s mastery in this 34-year old classic. Brennan shortly afterwards climaxed an 80-yard march with a plunge from the three to make the score 1870 in the first period. The Irish made il 200 in the third and after Army scored in the last period Nosre Dame paraded 80-yards again for its final T. D. The rivalry ended the same way it began in 1913-wlth q Notre Dame victory. The Irish had the last say unless the big. wigs at Army and Notre Dame decide to renew this most color full clash in the future. The victory gave the Irish partial revenge for the colossal $50 and 48–⁠0 wallopings of 1914 and AS and last years score less deadlock which spoiled a perfect season for ND. 1t also placed the stamp Of greatness on Leahy’s lads IN e year in which excellent football has been demonstrated al around the country and which has produced many other out standing elevens. 1t gets tougher and tougher each year to come up to this stage of the season with a per feet record and yet Michigan Southern Methodist, Pennsyl vania, Georgia Tech, Penn State and Utah along will Notre Dame among the power; still can boast all-conquerinl teams. And there’s Southern Cali fornia and Kansas who hav’ been tied but not beaten. Ant right up there with the elite arr such once-beaten elevens lik’ Texas, California, Wisconsin Maryland, William and Mary Rutgers, and Mississippi State Michigan, No. 2 team of til nation at the last count, heade’ into Saturdays setto with Wis consin by blasting Indiana 35while the Badgers, getting BET ter with each Saturday, steam collered Iowa, 46–⁠14. Third-ranking S.M.U. blanke, Texas A. & M. 1870 and fourth ranking Pennsylvania, paced b, the running of Bob Deube and the sterling defensive pla, of center Charlie Bednarik knocked Virginia from it’s ur beaten pedestal, 1877. Georgia Tech had to com, from behind in the last quartz: to down luckless Navy, 1914 Penn State, held back by thu mud, eked out a 10 victory ove1 Temple while Utah stopped Col orado A. & M. 1910. Southern California’s Rose Bowl-bound Trojans had the complacency Jared out of them before they could beat the vel thumped Stanford Indians, 40 Kansas won out over Nebraska, 1877, in the fading seconds Of the game. Texas, knocked off the heights by the margin of ar extra point kick by S.M.U., came from behind to flatten Baylor 28–⁠7 under an aerial bar rage led by Bobby Layne M Maryland vanquished Du ~

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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 76 since this game.