All that because the predicate for the decision in 1948 that Baylor had to build a new stadium.

Waco Tribune-Herald editor Frank Baldwin was in the big middle of the stadium campaign. Baldwin was one of the best editors I ever worked for. He had an acute nose for news.

So as the Bears’ fan base got larger and excitement grew, by the time the late ‘40s rolled around, Baylor and Waco were in full agreement: Baylor had to have a new football stadium. Baldwin again was in the big middle of it.

I was writing the main headlines of Baylor’s Saturday football games. Whether the Bears had won or lost their game, he wanted me to include in the headline the words: “Baylor needs a new stadium.”

So when Baylor lost to Texas at Muny Stadium on Nov. 6, 1948, I wrote this headline: “Despite a Three-Point Loss, Waco Needs a New Stadium.” And Jinx Tucker wrote two stories after that loss to Texas that day, enabling us to have a double-drop from the main headline. One story reported on the game, the other story on how the time was “ripe” to start planning to build a new stadium.