Texas at Baylor

Saturday, November 8, 1952

No. 13 Texas beat Baylor 35–⁠33. It was their 42nd meeting; after it, Texas led the series 28–⁠9–⁠4 in the games on file.

Away13Texas9–⁠2 in 1952
35
HomeBaylor4–⁠4–⁠2 in 1952
33

FinalHigh 77°F, low 59°FAttendance 32,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Texas Tally in Last 80 Seconds Defeats Baylor in Wild Game

    Evening star, November 9, 1952, page 62

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    Texas Tally in Last 80 Seconds Defeats Baylor in Wild Game WACO, Tex, Nov. 8. - Texas rolled IA yards against the clock today to beat Baylor’s battling Bears, 1888, in one of the widest of Southwest Conference football games. There were 80 seconds left as Dick Ochoa, Texas fullback smashed across from the 1-yard line for the touchdown that kept Texas undefeated in the confer ence race and eliminated Baylor from championship consideration Sophomore Billy Quinn and Ocha were the guns that paid of for Texas with the passing and expert handling of the team by T Jones the steadying influence Four touchdowns were scored ir that nerve-racking last quarter and they came in almost every conceivable way. Jim Speer. Bay. lor end, plucked a lateral BY Ochoa out of the air to set up tht

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 58% to win. Texas won as Elo’s underdog.

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 71 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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