(16) Texas Christian 16 (20) Marquette 6

Shot down by Sammy (The Sniper) Baugh in a hectic action-filled first half that produced all of the scoring, Marquette University's Golden Avalanche from Milwaukee, Wis., vaunted power of Midwestern intercollegiate football, was battered and bombed to a 16-6 defeat by the Texas Christian University Horned Frogs Friday afternoon in the inaugural of what now doubtless will be an annual Cotton Bowl gridiron classic here. Superiority of the Frogs was convincing to every one of the 22,000 spectators, who defied threatening skies to watch J. Curtis Sanford's big show which, however, was played on a good field, as good as the turfless Cotton Bowl gridiron, ruined during the Centennial could be except for a few slick spots where rain had seeped through under the protecting cover, which has been on it for several days.

Dutch Meyer's Christians won easily – going away. They might have doubled their margin but for the fact that the little mentor took occasion to season under fire in this final game of the youngsters who next fall must carry on for Slingin' Sam, Walls, Meyer, Roach, Ellis, Harrison, McCall and other departing heroes. It was only in response to the vociferous demand from the stands late in the last period that the Dutchman rushed his first string back into the fray after letting his reserves nurse along a safe lead the real bombers had compiled earlier.

Marquette was no match to this first string Purple contingent when it wanted to turn on the heat. It proved conclusively that the caliber football played in most other sections is not up to the Southwest standard. At least four Southwest Conference teams could have taken the Golden Avalanche that faced the Fort Worth warriors; yet these Milwaukeeans mopped up in their own section, had an unblemished season record until they encountered Duquesne in their closing engagement, and were rated one of the great elevens of the Nation.

During the first half, when both teams were at full strength, the Frogs showed a net gain from scrimmage of 206 yards to 21 for the enemy and completed five out of twelve passes for 110 yards while Marquette was successfully executing two of five throws for ten yards. The Christians were making twelve first downs to three and finished the day with an advantage of eighteen to ten.

The widely heralded duel between the two All-Americans – Baugh and Buzz Buivid – was stronger in favor of the Texan than the figures actually show. Statistics reveal that Sam completed six of fourteen throws for 118 yards and had two intercepted. Buzz clicked with nine out of eighteen for 85 yards and had three fall into enemy hands. Sam carried the ball twice for nineteen yards gain and Buivid fourteen times for a net loss of nine yards counting three times when he was smothered by the charging Purple forwards while hunting pass receivers. Buzz, while not throwing the sharp, deadly passes Sammy tosses, is doubtless a better pitcher than he showed Friday. Baugh had blocking. Buivid didn't. And therein probably rested the real cause of Christians' superiority. Purple shirts played in the Avalanche's backfield all afternoon and the Gold-jersied Milwaukeeans were rarely able to menace the Frog backs either in passing or while getting in motion on ground plays. Yet these Marquetters hail from a section that is supposed to specialize in such fundamentals as blocking and tackling – powerhouse, head-butting football, and while reputed to be a dazzling aggregation with the overhead game, too, they'd be no aerial circus in the Southwest.

Despite the bad break in game-day weather, the game was financially successful. P.C. Cobb, who was officially in charge of seat sales, estimated the crowd as numbering 22,000. It is understood the paid gate would run about 4,000 under this figure and that in actual money it ran approximately $34,000. At this figure, each team would pull down $13,600, with the stadium rental amounting to $5,100, and Curtis Sanford having left $1,700 to meet promotional expenses. However, he doubtless wound up with something of a profit counting $1,000 for radio broadcasting rights and his bit of the concessions, including all of the program rights. The official final checkup probably will not be available before Monday night or Tuesday.

There were few, if any of those spectators who failed to have their hunger for action appeased by the time they filed out of the big stadium, however. Rarely, if ever, has such a dynamic swirl of pigskin movement been seen on a local gridiron as developed in the early stages of this tussle and before the encounter was five minutes old, the Christians boasted a 3-0 lead. Another five minutes hadn't expired before the Avalanche was leading 6 to 3, and before the period closed the Christians were out in front 10 to 6: to stay. They added another touchdown in the next quarter.