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4 unusual facts about Baylor


Baylor Bears tennis

Men's tennis debuted at Baylor University in 1970, but not did become a popular sport on campus until the arrival of Matt Knoll in 1997.

Brazos River

There is also a small municipal dam (Lake Brazos Dam) near the downstream city limit of Waco at the end of the Baylor campus, which raises the level of the river through the city to form a town lake.

Mike Goodson

His brother, Demetri Goodson, plays college football at Baylor.

Ryan Sachire

He then was at Baylor as an assistant from 2005–2006 and has been coaching at Notre Dame ever since.


2011 Alamo Bowl

Baylor entered the game 9-3, finishing 3rd in the Big 12 standings.

Andrea Callard

In San Francisco, Callard found an artistic community that included Jim Vincent, Bonnie O'Neill, Baylor Trapnell, Mac Becket, Carol Williams, Reese Williams, and Robin Winters.

Antonio Gotto

As administrator, he has presided over an enormous growth at Cornell, an affiliation with Houston's Methodist Hospital when it separated from Baylor, and a deepening of Cornell's longime affiliation with New York Hospital following its merger with Columbia Presbyterian to form the New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

Atlantic Central Football Conference

Game: 4 - Larry Beavers, Wesley vs. Mary Hardin-Baylor, 11/26/05 and

Battle of the Brazos

Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, was expelled from Baylor after he was in part found painting one of A&M's buildings green.

Baylor students likewise pranked the Aggies, often sneaking onto the Texas A&M campus to spray green paint on the statue of Lawrence Sullivan Ross.

Baylor Bears basketball

The Baylor Bears basketball team represents Baylor University in Waco, Texas, in NCAA Division I men's basketball competition.

Benedikt Dorsch

Dorsch was at Baylor University from 2002 to 2005 and was a member of the Baylor team that claimed the national championship in 2004.

Bob Ricks

He received his Bachelor of Business Administration from Baylor University in 1967 and his Juris Doctor degree from Baylor Law School in 1969, where he served as an Editor of the Baylor Law Review and was a member of Phi Delta Phi.

Byrd Baylor

Baylor currently lives in Arivaca, Arizona, in an adobe house that does not have electricity, but with three manual typewriters.

Baylor was awarded Caldecott Honors for her books When Clay Sings (1973) with illustrator Tom Bahti, and The Desert is Theirs (1976), Hawk, I'm Your Brother (1977), and The Way to Start a Day (1979) with illustrator Peter Parnall.

Carl E. Douglas

On February 12, 2009, it was reported that Douglas and Baylor would be suing the Los Angeles Clippers and the NBA, alleging race and age discrimination issues in the Clippers franchise.

Daily American Times

were Charles G. Baylor, a vocal proponent of direct trade for the Southern states; Roswell S. Ripley (later a Confederate Brigadier General); and Charles W. Brush.

Daoud Hanania

Hanania trained under Dr. Michael DeBakey and Dr. Denton Cooley in Houston, Texas in the late 1960s while he was a Fellow in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at Baylor University College of Medicine.

Elgin Baylor

Baylor, a United States Army Reservist, was called to active duty during the 1961-62 season, and being stationed in Washington state, he could play for the Lakers only when on a weekend pass.

George Baines

George Washington Baines (1809–1882), American Baptist clergyman, professor and president of Baylor University

Gerald Lyda

Today, sons Gerald D. and Gene Lyda, along with their sister Jo Granberg, manage the 320,000 deeded acres (1400 km²) La Escalera Ranch, which spreads across four Texas counties: Reeves, Pecos, Brewster, Archer, and Baylor.

Gracia Baylor

Hilda Gracia Baylor AM (born 8 October 1929 in Brisbane) is a retired Australian politician.

John Baylor

A member of Baylor's Cabinet, Attorney General Marcus H. MacWillie, officially pardoned him and was later rewarded when Baylor orchestrated MacWillie's election to the First Confederate Congress.

John Eddie Williams

He earned his law degree from Baylor University School of Law in 1978, serving as editor-in-chief of The Baylor Law Review and graduating first in his class.

Joseph Jankovic

In 1977 he joined the faculty of Baylor College of Medicine and became a founder and director of the Parkinson's Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic, which has since been recognized as a "Center of Excellence" by the National Parkinson Foundation and the Huntington Disease Society of America.

Kristy Curry

As head coach of the Texas Tech Lady Raiders, following the retirement of Hall of Fame coach Marsha Sharp, Curry embarked upon a rebuilding program as her tenure began in 2006, facing the challenges of new-era recruiting and the increased talent prevalent in the Big Twelve Conference, especially Big Twelve South opponents Baylor, Oklahoma, Texas, and Texas A&M, all of whom were frequently ranked in the Top 25 and contending for the national championship.

Lars Georg Svensson

He completed a residency in cariothoracic surgery from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and completed fellowships at Baylor and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio.

National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools

In the Winter 2007 issue of the Baylor Law Review, Amanda Colleen Brown reviewed the NCBCPS' The Bible in History and Literature and the Bible Literacy Project's The Bible and Its Influence (59 Baylor L. Rev. 193).

Olin Clyde Robison

A native of Anacoco, Louisiana, Robison studied at Baylor University and Southwestern Theological Seminary, and received a D. Phil.

Paul L. Foster

During college Paul was inducted into the Texas Theta chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon at Baylor University.

Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor

Baylor was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress (March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1831) from Alabama's 2nd congressional district and was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1830 to the Twenty-second Congress.

Seymouria

Fossils of Seymouria were first found in Seymour, Baylor County, Texas (hence the name of the type species, Seymouria baylorensis, or "Baylor County Seymour one").

The NoZe Brotherhood

Targets of the NoZe Brothers' mirth included Baylor's faculty, administration, the Southern Baptist Convention, various student organizations, and themselves.

Robert Griffin III — "Bro. HeismaNoZe Trophy"; Baylor Quarterback and 77th recipient of the Heisman Trophy

The Solitaires

Formed in Harlem in 1953, the band consisted of Herman Curtis, Buzzy Willis and Pat Gaston (who had previously been together in another group, The Crows), and Monte Owens, Bobby Baylor and Bobby Williams (formerly of The Mello-Moods).

W. Winfred Moore

Moore, however, despite the extensive Baylor University network that campaigned on his behalf, was defeated again in 1986, losing to Adrian Rogers, then the pastor of the large Bellevue Baptist Church of Memphis, Tennessee, and the choice of the fundamental-conservative wing.

William Brownell

William E. Brownell, American scientist that conducts research at Baylor College of Medicine


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