Baylor at Texas A&M
Saturday, October 24, 1953 Share
No. 6 Baylor beat No. 15 Texas A&M 14–13. It was their 50th meeting; after it, Texas A&M led the series 25–12–7 in the games on file.
FinalHigh 75°F, low 65°FAttendance 36,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, October 25, 1953, page 66
Read the text
BAYLOR Remains Undefedted By Edging Texas A&M, 74–73 COLLEGE STATION, Tex. Oct. 24.-Baylor’s magnificent Bears snapped Texas ARMS unbeaten record by 14–13 today in a rib-cracking vicious football game. BY the grace of James Ray Smiths toe. Baylor remained undefeated and united. The victory knocked AIM from a tie for the lead in the Southwest Confer ence race and kept Baylor up there. A crowd of $4,000 thrilled to the great runs of Baylor’s mighty backf1eld-L. G. Dupre, Jerry Coody and Allen Jones-and the passing of Francis Davidson. Coody got the first Baylor touchdown with an 11-yard-line
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 50% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Baylor–Texas A&M gameOfficially, 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 58 since this game.
| 2011 | Texas A&M 55, Baylor 28 | |
| 2010 | Texas A&M 42, Baylor 30 | |
| 2009 | Texas A&M 38, Baylor 3 | |
| 2008 | Baylor 41, Texas A&M 21 | |
| 2007 | Texas A&M 34, Baylor 10 | |
| 2006 | Texas A&M 31, Baylor 21 |
Around this game
Baylor
- Next gamevs. TCUOct. 31, 1953
- SeasonBaylor in 1953
- ProgramBaylor history and records
Texas A&M
- Next gameat ArkansasOct. 31, 1953
- SeasonTexas A&M in 1953
- ProgramTexas A&M history and records

