Texas A&M at Baylor

Saturday, November 11, 1916

Texas A&M beat Baylor 3–⁠0. It was their 19th meeting; after it, Texas A&M led the series 10–⁠1–⁠2 in the games on file.

AwayTexas A&M6–⁠3 in 1916
3
HomeBaylor9–⁠1 in 1916
0

FinalHigh 68°F, low 38°F, 0.17 in. of rain

In the newspapers

  • The The Waxahachie daily light. (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current's story: TEXAS AGGIEs WALLOP BAYLOR IN PRETTY CAME DROP KICK GOAL BRINGS WIN MING SCORE IN BEST GAME OF THE SEASON. Ten Thousand People Saw Hardest Fought Football Game of the Year at Waco on Saturday.

    The Waxahachie daily light. (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, Texas, November 13, 1916, page 2

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    TEXAS AGGIEs WALLOP BAYLOR IN PRETTY CAME DROP KICK GOAL BRINGS WIN MING SCORE IN BEST GAME OF THE SEASON. Ten Thousand People Saw Hardest Fought Football Game of the Year at Waco on Saturday. The Texas Aggies defeated the Baylor Bears Saturday at the Cotton Palace by the close margin of to TO. Darenee Burns of Bowie. the lad whose toe started 4. K IL 4. Oh ~; way to victory against the Haskell Indians, turned the trick with his toe in Saturdays game. Neither team could cross their opponent S goal line and Harland sent in Burns in the last quarter to boost the VIC tory. The Bowie tad made good in IA most difficult drop kick. The game Saturday is described as one of the most interesting games of the season. For four full periods the gridiron warriors battled up and down the field. Baylor had the adj vantage from the viewpoint of ground gaining, but the Aggies strengthened and held like a stone wall whenever their goal was in dan ger Baylor resorted to passes and fast end runs and at times made sem sational gains. The three points scored by Burns won the game and wrested championship honors from the Baylor Bears A number of Waxahachie enthusiasts attended the Cotton Palace and witnessed the game. which again upset the football dope and scattered championship hopes.

  • The Bisbee daily review's story: FOOTBALL RESULTS

    Bisbee daily review, November 12, 1916, page 3 (results column)

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    FOOTBALL RESULTS Bisbee High, 0; Tucson High, O. Hamilton. 19; University, Buffalo, O. South Dakota State, 24; North Da- kSta, 4. Stevens, 19; Connecticut Aggies, 3. Johns Hopkins, 21; Western Mary land, O., Hartford, l3; Dickinson, z. Missouri, $; Kansas Aggies, ‘. Kansas, 22; Washburn, 0. Northwestern, 20; Iowa, 13. Mount Union, ‘; Western Reserve, o. New York University, O; Colbq, g.. Columbia, q; Swathmore, Is. Rennsalaer. 6; Worcester Tehc., 6. Williams, o; Massachusetts Aggies O. Susquehanna. O; Syracuse, 42. Lafayette, 32; Albright, o. Holy Cross, 19; Bowdoin, 10. Gettysburg, 27; Villa Nova, 3. West Virginia, Wesleyan, O; George town, 47. Case, Al; Oberlin, 0. George Washington, 21; Eastern, 0 Union, g; Amherst, 6. Penn State, 10; Lehigh, :. Ohio State, 46; Indiana, 7 Navy, 50: North Carolina, Aggies. O.. Army, F; Maine, B. Michigan, 20; Cornell, 23. Notre Dame, 21; South Dakota, o. University of Pittsburg, 47; Wash ington and Jefferson, Q. Pennsylvania, z; Dartmouth, ‘. Yale, 6; Brown, 21. Harvard, 3; Princeton, o. Morningside, O; Ames, z. Maryland State, 13; Catholic Uni versity, g. Marquette, 66; St. Louis Univer- sity, 0. Pennsylvania, 13; Mississippi Uni versity, 3. University of University of Kentucky gave cancelled. Tenn, 10; Vanderbilt, 6. Georgia Tech, 13; Alabama, 0. Florida, O; Auburn, 20. Colorado College 5s; University of Colorado, c. Colorado Aggies, 0; Colorado School of Mines, 0. Ohio, 33; University of Cincin- nati,10. nr Wabash. 26; Depauw, 13. Haskell Institute, [; Emporia State Normal, 14. Baylor. 0; Texas A. and M., 3.

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 66% to win. Texas A&M pulled the upset.

Officially, 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 89 since this game.

Recent meetings
2011Texas A&M 55, Baylor 28
2010Texas A&M 42, Baylor 30
2009Texas A&M 38, Baylor 3
2008Baylor 41, Texas A&M 21
2007Texas A&M 34, Baylor 10
2006Texas A&M 31, Baylor 21

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