The 1907 Baylor football team was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

team that represented

Baylor University Baylor University is a private Baptist Christian research university in Waco, Texas. Baylor was chartered in 1845 by the last Congress of the Republic of Texas. Baylor is the oldest continuously operating university in Texas and one of the fir ...

as an independent during the 1907 college football season. In its first season under head coach

Luther Burleson Luther Franklin Burleson (November 16, 1880 – November 17, 1924) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach. He served as the seventh head football coach at Baylor University, coaching one season in 1907 and compiling a record of ...

, the team compiled a 4–3–1 record and was outscored by a total of 105 to 91. Baylor's December 6 game at LSU was the team's first ever east of the Mississippi.

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Background

Baylor University did not field a team in 1906. Due to the violence of football, the sport was banned by the board of trustees in May 1906. Under student pressure and a lack of interest in the school's athletics team, the trustees lifted the ban the following year.

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