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| Date | January 2, 1922 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 1921 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Fair Park Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Dallas, Texas | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 20,000 | ||||||||||||||||||
The 1922 Dixie Classic was a post-season college football bowl game between the Texas A&M Aggies and the Centre College Praying Colonels on January 2, 1922, at Fair Park Stadium in Dallas, Texas. Texas A&M defeated Centre 22–14.[1] It is also the game in which Texas A&M's 12th man tradition originated.
Centre came into the game undefeated, outscoring its opponents by a margin of 314 to 6.[2] It also upset Harvard in the regular season in what was later deemed one of the greatest upsets in college football history.[3] A&M finished its regular season 5–1–2 and captured a Southwest Conference title.[4]
- ^ Schoor, Gene (1994) pp. 1–4.
- ^ "1921 Season". Archived from the original on December 3, 2008.
- ^ "Centre College Remembers Day When It Was King of the Gridiron".
- ^ "Texas A&M Yearly Results - 1921". Archived from the original on May 25, 2011. Retrieved February 15, 2019.