Baylor at Texas A&M

Saturday, October 22, 1949

No. 11 Baylor beat Texas A&M 21–⁠0. It was their 46th meeting; after it, Texas A&M led the series 25–⁠9–⁠6 in the games on file.

Away11Baylor8–⁠2 in 1949
21
HomeTexas A&M1–⁠8–⁠1 in 1949
0

FinalHigh 83°F, low 59°F, 5.12 in. of rain

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story

    The Daily Alaska empire, October 24, 1949, page 3 (results column)

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    Notre Dame, idle last week, gets back in action Saturday against an up-and-down Navy at Baltimore. It’s Navy’s time to be up again but this is just one tough stop for the Irish schedule. ARMY IN PLAY Army, which overwhelmed Co., lumbia 63–⁠6, should enjoy another touchdown parade against Virginia Military Institute. Unbeaten Penn entertains Pittsburgh in one of the East’s top attractions. Michigan will meet Illinois at Champaign in a game that should help unravel the confused Western Conference race. Illinois is un- beaten in the Big Ten, has lost only to Missouri. The hest games in the South send Mississippi State against Tu- lane, Tennessee against North Ca rolina and Duke against Georgia Tech. Texas at Southern Metho- dist is the Southwest headliner. Tn other surprises Saturday, Iowa topped Northwestern, 28–⁠21; Rice beat out Texas, 17–⁠15, on Froggie Williams last gasp field goal; Mem phis State whipped Kansas State, 2l-14, and Kansas toppled Ok.>- homa A. and M., 55–⁠14. Baylor remained unbeaten, the unheralded dark horse” of the wide open country, by defeating Texas A. and M., 21–⁠0. Boston U. was victor over New York U., 38–⁠0. Virginia trounced Virginia Mill tary, 32–⁠13.

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)

Baylor 76% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, Texas A&M leads 68–⁠31–⁠9; as played, 64–⁠29–⁠9 in the 102 games on file; the official count covers all 108 meetings, counting the 62 since this game.

Recent meetings
2011Texas A&M 55, Baylor 28
2010Texas A&M 42, Baylor 30
2009Texas A&M 38, Baylor 3
2008Baylor 41, Texas A&M 21
2007Texas A&M 34, Baylor 10
2006Texas A&M 31, Baylor 21

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