#13 "The House That Doak Built"

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Some interesting facts:

By the end of the season the stadium had been enlarged from 45,000 to 67,000 seats. The attendance for the home games was 50,000 for Santa Clara; 55,000 for Texas A&M; 58,000 for Baylor; and 67,431 for TCU.

In 1949, Walker’s senior season, the Cotton Bowl had been rounded out to reach a capacity of 75,000. The game against Texas attracted 75,139. And in the season finale against Notre Dame, 75,457 fans jammed into the Cotton Bowl.

Those must have been intoxicating times for the SMU fans!!! Today we can only dream of such things.

[that's great raplh]

just like smack

bron sugar

[Sam I Am]

We could only get radio broadcasts of Doak's SMU games outside of Dallas. Film highlights were included sometimes in the "news" stories that were played before the weekly movie we saw at the theater. Games films were circulated around the state many weeks afterwards. I finally got to see Doak in person when the pros played an exhibition game on the road in Texas. I only wish I could have seen his collegiate days at the Cotton Bowl. Thanks goodness his statue graces our campus by Ford stadium.