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p-n 5 'BOB 'nrw JV 9 3r Uffib JV tr? essoin 4Cy IP! Ewe bnes Rally Baylor Halts Frog Passes Burk Shines GAME AT A GLANCE BAYLOR TCT7 IS First Downs 8 121 Yards Gained Rushing 25 216 Yards Gained Passing 61 13 of 33 Passes Completed 7 of 21 9 Passes Intercepted by 1 12 for 29'j Punts Arg Id sc 8 for 43'i 11 for Penalties No Ydge 5 for 48 ft? vT Vex 3 fio rC Past Lpnghorns 7 it: GAME AT A glance ii First Downs 9 ands of their fans who helped jam the 75000-seat Cotton Bowl 11 of 28 Passes Completed of 21 tO Capacity 2 Passes Intercepted by 1 i ior 11 vPun? A 9 or As last week at Austin when 6 lor 25 Penalties No dge 6 for So 8 Fnmbles Recovered by 8 the Rice Owls SCOred in the last ir rt TT 10 seconds to snatch a 17-15 de- I-LEMHALL cision this game with SMU was Star-Telegram Sports Writer Qne of might-have-beenS for DALLAS Oct Whether the Texas SMU Mustangs are lucky or the The 0range might have tied Texas Longhorns are snake bit i Raieigh Blakely SMU end may be argued fiercely for years hadat diyed jn £rmt of tfje pIacg to come but it always be in the Uck that Randall Clay aimed for record that Kyle Rote made a the uprights after Adams touch-touchdown Doak Walker con- down --xy-- verted and Ben Procter dropped a pass here this autum afternoon to give the Ponie- a 7-6 victory their third mas many years over tne urange After a scoreless first half Tex- as counted first in the third quar- ter on a pass interception by John Adams of Baytown That stung the Mustangs into furious action They took the 1 "Vf i4 TCU PLANS EARLY FOR NEXT YEAR Wilde Takes Berry's Posi Againsi Baplisls by lorin Mcmullen Star-Telegram Snort Writer WACO Oct 29 Baylor's alert and deadly gridmen here Saturday caused one of the earli er launchings of spring football practice They had Texas Christian University's bewilder- ed squad so far down at the half (25- 0) that the Purple came out for the third quarter i a a ently starting over and looking to next year ISON TCU had Wingback Dan Wilde at tailback where he is expected to be in 1950 and his position went to the regular quarterback Lindy Berry who probably never had a worse day in his football life In his accustomed place the first half he had worried through a nightmare that saw his passes overshoot or go into enemy hands the ball wouldn't stick to his fingers fumbles of varying degrees of disaster were everywhere The switch effected momentary improvement but that soon failed also Berry eventually filtered back to his regular place and finally out of the game as Roy Bassinger ran the team for the final agonizing minutes Berry finished the day with only two completions in 11 tries for a net gain of 15 yards Six of his tosses were intercepted In contrast Adrian Burk Baylor's key man who was billed for a titanic air duel with Berry enjoyed one of his better afternoons completing 11 of 19 tries for 192 yards He had only one intercepted That would indicate that the Bears simply ripped through the Frogs with a devastating offense that earned early breaks Those were cashed in and finally before end of the half the Bears had such magnitudious cushion their offense became free and easy and could do no wrong Notice the early developments: an interception and a fumble gave Baylor a good start toward the first touchdown The Turn to McMullen on Page 2 ay m4p" igygs xawmat-wBy kickoff and tore up great hunks The orange might have won of the hard brown and almost if procter hadn't muffed a jump bare turf on a sustained drive to pass frora Breckenridge's Paul tie the score Rote took a five Campbell on the 10-yard line in yard pass from Fred Benners tne third quarter and literally ran over people for Tne Orange w'ould have won the last 15 yards Walker kicked if Procter loose and free in the the extra point end zone had held on to Camp-That was actually all of the bell's 30-yard heave in the last scoring but in last dying seconds 20 seconds of play Procter towering senior end from The Mustangs deadly as al-Austin had the ball and the game ways in the clutch never missed in his hands across the SMU goal a trick line and lost them both As he They had one scoring oppor- crashed down Procter's elbow tunity and they made the most of dug into the ground and the ball it escaped his grasp All through the first half the It was a heartbreaking defeat Turn to Mustangs on Page 4 4 -N- i kr -y -V f- i for the Longhorns and the thous- Matter back from i hfd not been denifH firstPdown by a fraction of an jncn on tne nine-yard line in the first quarter The might have won if Ray Borneman hadn't fumbled and lost the ban on SMU three-yard line in the fourth quar- ter COLLEGE RESULTS SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE BTlor 40 TCV 1 SMC 7 Texas 8 Arkansas 27 Texas AA-M 8 Rice 28 Texas Tech 0 SOUTHWEST East Texas State 30 Sam Houston 13 Mshop College 35 Arkansas St 0 Lamar 40 University of Mexico 0 Arizona State 28 New Mexico 19 North Texas State 41 Southwest Texas 7 Southwest OkIa St 21 Northeast Okl St Panhandle AAM 49 St Michael'! 0 Hardin Coll 33 Houston IT 21 Arizona St (Temper ZS New Mexico 19 EAST Fittsbarrh il Pennsylvania 21 Clark Collere S3 Morehouse 0 New Haven Tchrs 13 New York Ar-Cles 7 Maryland St 45 Cheyney Tchrs Vermont Massachusetts 12 New Hampshire 40 Northeastern It Tufts 33 Amherst 14 Cornell Jayvees 21 Champlain 13 Washington Coll (Md) 18 Drexel IS Wesleyan 27 American Internat'l 14 Buckneli 21 Buffalo 7 Gannon 15 Slippery Rock Tchrs Hobart 27 Hamilton 25 PMC Si Susquehanna 0 Coast Guard 35 Lowell Textile 7 Grove City Thiel Trinity 62 Worcester 0 Middlebury 6 Norwich 0 Colby 13 Maine 12 Bowdoin 19 Bates 0 Harvard 22 Holy Cross 14 Ford ham 42 Georgetown Dartmouth 34 Tale 13 Boston 46 Scranton A Kent State 27 Connecticut 0 Cornell 54 Columbia Duquesne 51 St Louis 14 Princeton 34 Rutgers 14 Army 40 VM1 14 Penn State 33 Syracuse 21 RPI 20 Rochester IS Brown 28 Western Reserve 14 Ft Monmouth 6 Trenton State 0 California (Pa) Tchrs 13 Shinoens- burir Tchrs 7 Kings Point 27 Hofstra 0 L'nion 14 Williams 6 St Lawrence 41 Clarkson 6 Adelnhi 28 Arnold Mt St Mary's 2fi Catholic Westminster 7 Geneva 0 Wagner 34 tlrsinus 6 Franklin Si Marshall 45 Swarthmore 8 Springfield 34 Rhode Island 13 Carnegie Tech 3H Washington Jefferson 16 Deleware St 40 St Paul Poly 0' Bioomsburg Tchr 27 Kutztown 14 Juanita 40 Haverford 20 Gettsburg 5fi John Hopkins 6 Dickinson 21 Allegheny 13 Moravian 14 L'psala 6 Deleware 25 Muhlenberg 13 Niagara 14 Wayne 6 Cortland Tchrs 89 Hartwlck 0 Alfred 20 Brooklyn College 19 Concord 13 Fairmont State 7 SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE Tulane 54 Mississippi St 6 Alabama 14 Georgia 7 Duke 27 Georgia Tech 14 Vanderbilt 20 Auburn 7 Kentucky 14 Cincinnati 7 BIG TEN Purdue 13 Minnesota 7 Michigan State 62 Temple 14 Ohio State 24 Northwestern 7 Michigan 13 Illinois 0 Iowa 34 Oregon 31 Wisconsin 30 Indiana 14 MIDWEST Rider 19 Streudsburg Tchr Wilberforee 40 Lincoln 13 Northwestern College (Wis) 28 Frocopius 6 Turn to Grid Scores on Page 2 t'f Scm 1 Hk? i iC fS7 -t -y '5'4- -tt THE STORY Frank Boydstun Baylor back reaches to intercept the first TCU pass of the day in the opening minute of the 4 0-14 Bear victory at Waco Saturday Behind him is Dan Wilde (42) the intended receiver Boydstun returned the Lindy Berry aerial to the 50 before Wilde brought him down This was the first of nine interceptions accomplished by the alert Bear defense BY JACK MURPHY Star-Telegram Sports Writer WACO Oct Baylor's Golden Bears reduced the nation most fearsome passing barrage to the ferocity of a pop gun here this golden Saturday afternoon in humiliating Texas Christian University 41-14 and storming to their sixth consecutive football triumph before 20000 startled witnesses With victory in a game that was supposed to determine whether Baylor is a first-rate Southwest Conference power the Bears did something that no other team has accomplished so well this season The alert poised Bruins threw a blanket on TCU's smouldering overhead game and wit'i that they won a football game And by a score of their own choosing Bears Stop Berry The amazingly agile Bears never gave Frog Gunner Lindy Berry a chance They did it with a flexible defense that charged Berry off his feet one moment then dropped back to snatch the ball away from receivers the next At least for this day the Bears were an almost perfect football team They quieted Berry's passing with such high skill that Dutch Meyer shifted his ace to wingback in the third quarter and gave the ball to young Dan Wilde Later he gave the same chance to Roy Bassinger but all effort came to naught The story of Baylor's overwhelming triumph is best told in the statistics Never able to gain ground TCU was shorn of its only weapon when the Bears permitted only seven completions in 27 attempts Berry found his receivers only twice on 11 attempts for a total of 15 yards And both of his completions came before intermission Frog Fumbles Costly Seldom have the Frogs been more punchless Beginning with a fumble that gave Baylor a touchdown in the first five minutes they staggered into a series of mistakes that took the edge off their power all afternoon They fumbled five times two of the bobbles going over to Baylor They lost possession nine times on pass interceptions these misplays frequently backfiring for Baylor touchdowns And ragged tackling permitted the green-shirted Bears to go on for long gains or six-pointers long after they should have been stopped With this kind of an off-key performance the badly disorgan- i7fd Frnffs had nn phanrp Thpv iirAPA raalitiif ert hart fir diran 1 4hn second quarter that it was evi- j- dent that there was to be no blazing last-half rally such as they managed against Oklahoma and Mississippi In fact only in the first quarter did the Bears experience even momentary doubt It was then after Baylor had taken a 6-0 lead that TCU marched to the Bear 14 only to lose the ball to Frank (Jitter) McKinney on a pass interception in the end zone Shutout Averted It appeared for just a moment that the Frogs might be on their way to a tie when Harold Atta-way Baylor center shoved George Boal in the end zone a flagrant example of pass interference But officials missed the crime and Baylor took charge Given that respite the Bears rushed over three touchdowns in the second period for a 25-0 ad- vantage at halftime A safety and nnrtthor fniiphHnwn cent ihom ahead 33-0 in the third period and then Baylor Coach Bob 3 Woodruff inserted his reserves The Frogs finally averted a shutout in the third period on Roy Bassinger's passing and eased the sting a little more with another touchdown in the Jast two minutes Meanwhile the Bear reserves had manufactured a score of their own As expected Baylor's super tne aays stanaout ne completed of is passes lor wz yards and two touchdowns Relying mostly on short pitches he per- mitted only one interception and kept the Frogs vulnerable for the speed and power of his ball-carrying teammates The tall sharpshooter had no favorite among his receivers He pitched to James Jeffrey and Ison for 44 yards apiece to Dudley Parker for 45 and to Sophomore End Stanley Williams for 35 With most of the Frog passes on the boomerang TCU's all-con- ference end Morris Bailey had no such luck He caught only one -of six tosses for a meager five yards Reserve End Bill Elliott who provided TCU's first touchdown led the Frog receivers with three catches for 28 yards Baylor struck for its opening touchdown after just four minutes and 10 seconds of the first period It developed with Bear Turn to Bears on Page 4 i h'S 'A! 4 1 Staff Photo by JOHN MAZZIOTTA ty 1 1 "til Staff Photo by KEY HERBERT If w' If Str-Telegram 6ur-TfIesra V''J rj-q "guanK imMmsomf i 3 'tL i 7 yM 1- yy- JL 1 2r-yy -4 i a y'vi 'v JSy jy- ZZys nva a 4 Oufi i- -if Staff AL 'ANZEBA BAYLOR TOUCHDOWN Buddy Parker of Baylor touches one hand to the ground to keep his balance and head for the TCU goal line after taking a pitchout in second quarter of game at Waco Saturday Steve Dowden (76) pins a would-be TCU tackier while Clark Heironimus (71) moves into position for block on Frogs Douglas Conaway (58) The touchdown play covered 16 yards a kl i HIGH FLYER Bobby Dillon Texas back leaps into the feet of an unidentified up-ended SMU player as he returns a second quarter punt in the Cotton Bowl game at Dallas Saturday Longhorn Joe Arnold (55) watches his teammate The Mustangs' Charles Russell not shown made the tackle on the Texas 23-yard line.