Baylor at SMU
Saturday, November 24, 1956 Share
No. 16 Baylor beat SMU 26–0. It was their 39th meeting; after it, SMU led the series 18–14–7.
FinalHigh 64°F, low 34°FAttendance 28,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, November 25, 1956, page 78
Read the text
Baylor Romps Over SMU, $50 DALLAS, Nov. “a (P.-Baylor turned loose its sophomore back field with Buddy Humphrey as the ringleader today and the Golden Bears smashed Southern Methodist, 200. to put Texas Christian into the Cotton Bowl. Baylor thoroughly dominated the Methodists. who got past midf1eld under their own power just once during the afternoon. Texas Christian beat Rice 90 II at Houston today to clinch the host spot in the Cotton Bowl. Humphrey passed for one touchdown, scored one and pitched in heavily in the drive that brought a third. He was aided by Larry Hickman and Farrell Fisher. couple of pounding sophs. A crowd of $4,000 watched the game played in Indian summer weather in the Cotton Bowl. Baylor ------------ 2. 13 8 0–26 Southern Methodist – o 0 o o. Baylor scoring--Touchdowns Hum phrey e, rum, Hickman Il, plungel Peters e, rum, Anderson Ill, pass-run from Humphrey; Conversions: Berry 2,
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 57% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Baylor–SMU gameBaylor leads 40–36–7 in 83 meetings, counting the 44 since this game.
| 2025 | Baylor 48, SMU 45 | |
| 2016 | Baylor 40, SMU 13 | |
| 2015 | Baylor 56, SMU 21 | |
| 2014 | Baylor 45, SMU 0 | |
| 2012 | Baylor 59, SMU 24 | |
| 2005 | Baylor 28, SMU 23 |
Around this game
Baylor
- Next gamevs. RiceDec. 1, 1956
- SeasonBaylor in 1956
- ProgramBaylor history and records
SMU
- Next gamevs. TCUDec. 1, 1956
- SeasonSMU in 1956
- ProgramSMU history and records

