The 1955 Baylor Bears football team represented

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as a member of the

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(SWC) during the

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. Led by

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in his sixth and final season as head coach, the Bears compiled an overall record of 5–5 with a mark of 2–4 in conference play, tying for fifth place the SWC. Baylor played home games at Baylor Stadium in

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was named to the All-Southwest Conference team as an

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for the second consecutive season.Baylor University, "The Round-Up of Sixteeners in Fifty-Six" yearbook (1956) via the Baylor University Libraries Digital Collections. Accessed April 29, 2013. http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/cdm/ref/collection/tx-annl/id/24665

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