Baylor at Texas

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  The Waxahachie daily light. (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, Texas, October 30, 1916, page 3

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  FOOTBALL GAMES AT COTTON PALACE leading Universities sud Colleges o. s’si’ Are 10 Contest. A. & N. VS., BAYLOR NOV. II Win BE One Of Biggest Gridiron Bat. ties Of Year--waco Iii W. Austin Hi for Texas Championship No yember TO-. Waco. TCNas-The DIG tootpat. games to be played at the Cotton Pal ace this fall are attracting the atten ton Of the lovers of the great game all over the southwest. A series OF games have been scheduled that viii greatly surpass any games that have ever been played in Waco. This feature of the big exposition will alone attract many thousands oil visitors from every section OF the state. Arrangements are already un, der way for the chartcring OF special trains TO accommodate the great crowd that will want to witness the gladatos rial struggle between the gridiron IA vorites. Under the personal supervision OF Director Clint Padgitt who Is In charge OF the athletic events ut the Cotton Palace. the athletic field has been worked over in such manner as TO make il beyond doubt the best field In every particular that can be found In. the state. Old time football coaches and players who have recently visited the field declare that 1t Is now the fast est field In the South, and that the games this fall will be the best that will be staged anywhere in the state The first game will be PLAYED on the afternoon of the opening day OF the exposition. Saturday. Nov. 4. II viii be between Baylor University and Southwestern University of George. town. II Is well known fact that when the Baptists and the Methodists get together scrap results that Is re membered for many years. The next battle will take place on Monday. November 6. between the Meridian college team OF Meridian, and the Alexander Collegiate Institute Of Jacksonville, Tex. These two teams crossed swords at the Cotton Palace last fall II was terrific fight. The Alexander boys won however. and they are quite confident that they will be able to again turn the trick this falll On the other hand. the Meridian boys are out for sweet revenge. and arc coming to the big exposition accompa. MED by their friends, determined to show the world that they have much better team than the Jacksonville crowd. The faculties and pupils OF every high school In the state are deeply In. terested In Nov 10 at the Cotton Pal. ace. On that day the Waco Hi and the Austin I’ll will battle for the cham pionship of Texas. These two teams were conceded to be the best in the state last year, and they are both confident that they will be able to put up a better game this year than ever before. Much local In. terest is being manifested In the ap. proaching game One of the biggest games to be played anywhere In the entire south will take place on Nov. II. The crack A. and NJ. team will come to the Cotton Palace on that day and do their level best to smash the Baptist boys. The Baylor bunch realize that this will be the greatest game they have ever been In during the history OF football at Baylor. Nothing will be left undone to send the Aggies back to College Station beautifully trimmed The Ag’ giles say they expect very little trouble In sinking the hopes OF the team repre-. senting the University over which DIR. Brooks presides. The Cotton Palace management Is deeply interested in the athletic deyelopment of the exposition, and TO that end have provided grass field that will be big surprise 10 all visit ors.

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  Bryan daily eagle and pilot, Bryan, Tex., October 30, 1916, page 1

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  ITS Up TOA. & N. AND BAYLOR UNI. Only Two Texas Teams Considered In Southwest Conference Title-Ar. kansas Strong Contender. Dallas, Texas, Oct. 30-Baylor Uni. yersity’s defeat OF Texas University at Austin Saturday by score of 7 to 3 and the Texas Farmers last minute rally in which they took a spectacular game from the Haskell Indians of Lawrence, Kan. 13 to 6. afforded Tex. as football fans much material for comment as the outstanding events In Southwestern conferences games last week Being an intrastate game with the Texas championship at stake, the Bay. lor-Texas game proved the most inter. esting. BY IT, Texas University has been eliminated from the Southwest ern conference and state champion. ship games. The honor now lies be tween the Texas Aggies. Baylor and the University OF Arkansas Razor. backs. Baylor does not play the Ar. kansas team. but the Farmers take on both contenders later in the season. The Haskell-A. and NJ. game afford. ed many thrills. the climax coming when the Texans, by fourth period rally, nosed out by a tremendous OF. Tense which gave them l3 counts in the final ten minutes OF the game.

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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 101 since this game.