Baylor at Rice

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 30, 1947, page 42

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  Rice Turns on Power In Final Quarter 10 Smother Baylor Gets Three Touchdowns In Closing Stages for 34-to-6 Victory HOUSTON, Tex, Nov. 29.-Rice’s big, blue-clad Owls turned loose their power in the closing stages to smother Baylor, 34–⁠6, today and clinch third place in the Southwest Conference. }. Held to a one-point advantage for “a periods, the preseason title favorites started to roll-on the ground and in the air-in the final period. ~. : Fumbles had set up each of the initial touchdowns-the Owls COM ing in the second and Baylor’s in the third. But in. the final period, Rice picked up three touchdowns to 20 with one made in the third. The defeat sent Baylor into the conference cellar, a half game bemind Texas A. g. NJ and Arkansas. 1t was listless first half. with the Owls having only a narrow edge through an 18-yard touch down march started by Baylor tumble. Baylor’s Frank Mckinney started off the second half by falling on Harold Riley’s tumble on the Owl 81 and seven plays later Jack Price hit center from half yard out on fourth down for the lone Baylor score. A 58-yard drive resulted in the second Owl tally late in the third period, and in the final quarter power plays featured 64-yard touchdown march. passes gained 30 yards and another, and third stringers collected the final tally on a 59-yard drive that began with recovery of a Baylor tumble.

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, December 1, 1947, page 3 (results column)

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  (Fla.) last night before winning 21–⁠6. But Kansas, co-champions of the Big Six with Oklahoma, flattened Arizona 54–⁠28. Ray Evans, Kansas splendid back, had a hand in six of the Jay hawks touchdowns. Another outstanding indivual performance was turned in by chucking Charley Conerly who completed 13 of 19 passes for 180 yeards to lead Mississippi to a 1914 victory over Mississippi State that gave Ole Miss it’s first undisputed Southeast ern Conference title. A third conference champion ship was sewed up yesterday. Texas Tech, by upsetting Hardin-Simmons, 1916, not only won the Border Conference pen |nant but placed itself in The Sun Bowl. There were five other form reversals of major and minor proportions. Holy Cross, playing it’s last game for the resigned coach, Ok Dagrosa, surprised Boston College 20–⁠6; underdog North Carolina State played Maryland to an 90 tie; Oregon State, paced by dashing Dick Gray, upended Nebras 27–⁠6; and Fordham fought New York U. to a 1913 tie in the battle of New York. Besides Dagrosa, another coach ended his reign on triumphant notre. Bill Kern, resigned west Virginia Mentor, saw his Mountaineers wallop Pittsburgh 17–⁠2 for the first West Virginia win over pan the squad since 1923. In other important games yes terday. North Carolin trampled Virginia 40–⁠7; Rice buried Baylor in the last half 34–⁠6; Tennessee made it three ir a row in a late season come back campaign by downing Vanderbilt, 1877; Florida suffer ed it’s 26th straight loss, 25–⁠7; Oklahoma came surging from behind to conquer Oklahoma A & M. 21–⁠13; Michigan State cele brated its Hawaiian invasion by trolling over Hawaii, 58–⁠19; ane West Texas State halted N “ Mexico, 28–⁠18.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, December 1, 1947, page 3 (results column)

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  FOOTBALL SCORES Following a4e the final scores of leading football games played during the past weel1end: Navy 0, .irmy 2i. New York University IS; Ford ham IS. North Carolina State 0; Mor, loi ( o. Vanderti;t T; Tlrnessee 12 Kansas state 2; Fonda 25. West Virginia IT; Pi,r ?. Holy Cross 20; Boston College 6 Georgia o; Georgia Tech :. Virginia ‘; North Carolina 10 Southsrn Methodist 19; Teya’ Christian 19, tie. Oklahoma ARM 13; Oklahoma 2l Oregon State 27; Nebraska 6. Mississippi 33; Mississippi S II Texas Tech IA; Hardin-Sin,. mons 6. Baylor 6; Rice 34. West Texas State 28; New Mex. ico Is. Michigan State 58; Hawaii 19 Alabama 21; Miami G. Kansas 54; Arizona 28.

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 50–⁠30–⁠2 in 82 meetings, counting the 54 since this game.