USD Football 1995

f AREWELL TO THE SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE military garb), Texas' Hook 'Em Horns vs. Arkansas' Sooey Pigs, the private institutions vs. the state-supported schools. SMU-TCU, that's whereit all Methodist and Texas Christ- ian, each 1 0--0, played for the mythical national championship and a bid to the Rose Bowl. Amon Carter's 24,000 seats

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began for the conference on a national scale. The cities of Dallas and Fort Worth may be 30 miles apart geographically, but philosophically they have always been light years apart. Dal- las was the unofficial capital of the northern part ofeastTexas. Fort Worth marked 'where the West begins." Dallas staged the annual State Fair; Fort Worth had real cattle drives. In 1935, SMU and TCU col- lided on a football field in a manner that for the first time caught the fancy of East and West Coast enthusiasts. Even Grantland Rice was in the Amon Carter press box that day of Nov. 30, when Sou thern

were not enough, as fans tram- pled security, raiding the gates, climbing over and under fences, some actually driving their new autos through the fe nces, all eventually blend- ing into one blob of 30,000 camel-hair overcoats. Midway through the fourth quarter on fourth down, SMU full- back Bob Finley hurled a 36- yard touchdown to All-Amer- ican BobbyWilson, whose twist- ing catch gave the Mustangs a 20-14 victory and the trip out West. So-called experts (clear- ly not headline writers) later dubbed it "The Game of the First Halfof the 20th Century in the Southwest Conference."

.. BOBBY LAYNE ANO SAMMY BAUGH (OPPOSITE) ARE

TWO OF THE SOUTHWEST

CONFERENCE'S ALL·TIME GREAT QUARTERBACKS.

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