Sports Fact of the Day 1/22/2007

1/22/1927:
En route from Waco to Austin in rainy weather, 10 members of the Baylor basketball team traveling party, including seven players, are killed when their bus is struck by a Great Northern locomotive at a railroad crossing in Round Rock, Texas. There were no such things as flashing red lights or movable gates to warn the driver (who survived), and the downhill slope to the tracks made stopping short impossible. The victims of this tragedy have been largely overlooked by sports historians, but in Waco, on the campus of Baylor University, they will forever be known as the Immortal Ten.

Birthdays:
Elmer Lach b. 1918
J.C. Tremblay b. 1939
Serge Savard b. 1946
George Foreman b. 1948
Mike Bossy b. 1957