Baylor at Miami

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  The Key West citizen, October 3, 1953, page 7

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  Miami Scares Baylor In Thriller Friday MIAMI R-Baylor’s Bears suffered through anxious moments before they defeated Miami’s Hur- |ricanes 21–⁠13 last night, and the outcome might nave been different except for boner by sophomore signal caller. With just two and one-haf min utes to 60 in the first half, Miami had the ball on its own six with a first down and five yards to 60 after an offside penalty against Baylor. The Bears. the nations S tenth ranking football team, led The Hurricanes could have run out the clock and from that point the game could have gone either way, for Miami outgained and out scored Baylor in the second half. But sophomore Quarterback j. b. Johnston, who was student manager until a month ago, when Miami Coach Andy Gustafson gave him football suit and a tryout, called for a first down kick. As the team lined up in punt formaton, Gustafson came off the bench screaming: “Oh, MOI” at was a bad call” Gustafson said later in the dressing room. “The kid (Johnston) just got confused” Johnston made up. for this poor strategy in the last quarter when he connected with Bill Smith on a beautiful 58-yard touchdown pass the night’a most spectacular play. Johnston and Der James fur nished the games big overall sur prise as, alternating IN the quarter back role, they completed eight of Is passes for 149 yards to best

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Miami leads 6–⁠3 in nine meetings, counting the seven since this game.