Sept. 26, 2002
This is another "B" Line column, a periodic collection of news items of particular interest to members of the Baylor "B" Association. Contribute news about you or your teammates via e-mail to Dutch Schroeder (Dutch_Schroeder@baylor.edu), Reba Cooper (Reba_Cooper@baylor.edu), Kyle Penney,(Kyle_Penney@baylor.edu) or Jack Loftis (Jack.Loftis@chron.com). The mailing address is Baylor "B" Association, P. O. Box 8120, Waco, TX 76714
PLANS ARE LAID - Important doings are on tap for the Oct. 4-6 weekend in Waco, including the annual meeting of the Baylor "B" Association, a reunion of Baylor Bears who won the 1957 Sugar Bowl and the current Bears' game with the University of Kansas. The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday and will be of greater than usual importance since members will vote on a new constitution for the association. A summary of the revised document may be reviewed by going to www.BaylorBears.com, clicking on Baylor "B" Association and then making a final click on the Latest News and Events line in the Information Box on the right side of the page. And remember, whether you are for or against the changes, you must be present in the "B" Room to cast a vote. The facilities will be open earlier than usual for the business session and, as always, a buffet luncheon will be served prior to the 1 p.m. BU-UK kickoff. As you probably know, the game will be Baylor's first 2002 Big 12 test and the team will enter the contest at 2-2 and coming off an open-date weekend . . .
NUMBERS ARE GROWING - Approximately 30 members of the '57 Sugar Bowl team have sent in positive RSVPs for the reunion. It will begin with a tour of the Baylor campus at 3 p.m. Friday, followed by a 7 p.m. dinner in the "B" Association Room. On Saturday the former players will be on hand for the pre-game luncheon and will sit as a group at the game. At halftime all members of the team will be honored, with a special salute to former All-American and All-Pro Bill Glass. On Sunday the team will again met in the "B" Room for a continental breakfast . . . Recent "B" Line column notes about Baylor's 1974 championship year and - unfortunately - the Bears' 41-20 loss to Penn State in the 1975 Cotton Bowl have resulted in a Metroplex reader sending in several newspaper clippings about the game from the Jan. 2, 1975, editions of The Dallas Morning News and the Dallas Times-Herald. The reprinted story leads appear below, the first written by The News' Mike Jones and the latter by the late Bob "Chicken Fry" Galt, one of the Disciples of Sports Editor Extraordinaire Blackie Sherrod . . .
GOING TO PRESS - From The DMN: "There are, as the Baylor Bears learned Wednesday afternoon in the Cotton Bowl, certain inalienable precepts in the Book of Dreams. One is that they all gotta end sooner of later./ Only the Big Sleep lasts forever./ The bowl-wise Nitanny Lions of Penn State allowed the neophyte Bears to dream on peacefully for almost three quarters before setting off the alarm clock./ It rang like Big Ben./ And so the rude awakening." . . . From the DT-H: "Maybe Baylor forgot to keep up its payments. Maybe it didn't read the fine print. Or maybe it had no deed at all to the property./Leading with a theme of 'I Believe,' the Baylor Bears won their first Southwest Conference in 50 years. And one thing they really believed in 1974 was that the fourth quarter belonged to them. They won six of their games with dramatic fourth quarter doings that captured the attention, respect and love of an entire state. / But the 1974 Calendar ran out of pages. The year of 1975 arrived Wednesday and with it for the Bears came the shocking discovery that the fourth quarter had changed addresses. It skipped out to the other side of the fiend and joined hands with the Nittany Lions of Penn State. /What was an uneventful yet close 39th Cotton Bowl for three quarters turned into a one-team show in the final period. Penn State did what Baylor had been doing so well in 1974 and steamrolled for a 41-20 victory." . . .
JACK LOFTIS
CO-CHAIRMAN
COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE
