Texas Tech at Baylor

Saturday, October 20, 1951

No. 10 Baylor beat Texas Tech 40–⁠20. It was their 13th meeting; after it, Baylor led the series 8–⁠4–⁠1.

AwayTexas Tech7–⁠4 in 1951
20
Home10Baylor8–⁠2–⁠1 in 1951
40

FinalHigh 82°F, low 57°FAttendance 22,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Wilson Teachers Tied, Baylor Wins, M-2O, 1919, inRough Game Over Texas Tech

    Evening star, October 21, 1951, page 43

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    Wilson Teachers Tied, Baylor Wins, M-2O, 1919, inRough Game Over Texas Tech DOYLESTOWN. Pa, Oct. 90 The National Agricultural College and Wilson Teachers College OF Washington, D. c., engaged in a rough, injury-marred football contest today that ended in a 19-to-19 tie. Dan Franchetti, Aggies’ left hall back and leading ground gamer and Ed Brophy. right half, reeled off gains inside and outside of the Teachers defense. When Wilson had possession ii was the excellent passing COM bination. Dick Pugh to Jim Nc Cauley. which paid off with considerable yardage and a pair o1 the Capital squads touchdowns Brophy tailed for the Aggies. ano Bernie Shipley for the Teachers in the first period. Franchett bulled through the middle in the second quarter to give the Ma. tionals 1877 advantage at half. time. Pugh tossed to McCauley twice in the third quarter for six-point. ers. The Aggies counted theil third touch down in the same period.

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: Stars of Football

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 22, 1951, page 3 (results column)

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    Stars of Football Football stars of the week are: Ollie Matson, San Francisco – Scored three touchdowns, two on runs of 94 and 90 yards in beating Fordham, 32–⁠26. Chet Cornog, Pennsylvania – Set up three touchdowns and passed for fourth, gained 126 yards rushing in 28–⁠13 victory over Columbia. Mitch Price, Columbia>- Broke three Columbia passing records by completing 23 of 40 passes for 27l yards against Penn. Frank Clifford, Southern Califor- mia = Scored touchdown on 69-yard run, threw touchdown pass and kicked three extra points in upset 21–⁠14 win over California. Ray McKown, Texas Christian = Scored two touchdowns. set up an- other in 20–⁠14 victory over Texas A. and M. Larry Isbell, Baylor Completed 13 of Is passes, two for touchdowns, and scored a third touchdown in 40–⁠20 win over Texas Tech. Dan Drake, Rice Completed four of eight passes for 142 yards and three touchdowns in 28–⁠7 vic- tory, over Southern Methodist. Buck McPhail, Oklahoma – Gained 215 yards in 20 carries for new Oklahoma individual yardage record in 33–⁠2l win over Kansas. Babe Parilli, Kentucky = Passed for four touchdowns in 35–⁠13 vic- tory over Villanova.

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 77% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Baylor leads 42–⁠40–⁠1 in 83 meetings, counting the 70 since this game.

Recent meetings
2024Baylor 59, Texas Tech 35
2023Texas Tech 39, Baylor 14
2022Baylor 45, Texas Tech 17
2021Baylor 27, Texas Tech 24
2020Texas Tech 24, Baylor 23
2019Baylor 33, Texas Tech 30

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