Rice at Baylor

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., December 2, 1956, page 1

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  |Shofner Sparks 10 46–⁠13 |RompO Over Rice WACO, Tex, Dec. R.-Senior Del Shofner led the potent Baylor wrecking crew Of Charley Dupre, Farrell Fisher, Billy Paw liska and Bill Glass to a 46–⁠1s slaughter Of the Rice Owls today Pass interruptions broke the Owls back as four Baylor interceptionS accounted for one touchdown, set up two more and stopped a Rice drive. One pass by King Hill was intercepted by Glass. Baylor’s mighty guard. who ran IS yards to the Rice 3-Fisher scored on the next play. Pavliska, a sophomore, inter- Icepted another Hill pass and spurted SIS yards for a touch down late in the game. Baylor led only by 20–⁠13 as the second half started, but the Bears broke it open with two touchdowns in just under -four minutes. One came when Dupre snatched Hill pass on the Rice 48-yard line and went all the way for a touchdown. Glass in. Perception followed. Late in the fourth period Bobby Jones of Baylor passed and Frank Ryan intercepted on the Rice rs He was hit Immediately and dropped the ball. with Shot ner recovering. Shofner, who had scored earlier on a pass from Jones, crashed to- the 10 and apparently was shaken up. He stayed in the game, however, and plowed over on the next play.

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Baylor leads 50–⁠30–⁠2 in 82 meetings, counting the 45 since this game.