Baylor overwhelms Brainerd in 56-0 victory

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Baylor scored early and often to beat Brainerd 56-0 in nonregion football Friday night at Baylor's Heywood Stadium.

Trusten McArtor ran for a touchdown on the Red Raiders' first play from scrimmage, and Tate Prater picked up an errant punt snap on Brainerd's first possession to give Baylor a two-touchdown lead in the first three minutes.

The rest of the first half went similarly as Baylor scored on its next four possessions and Brendon Harris returned a punt 55 yards for another touchdown. The Red Raiders led 49-0 at halftime and played second-tier players from midway through the second quarter.

In a halftime ceremony, former Super Bowl players and Baylor alumni Blake Moore and Charles Hannah presented commemorative Super Bowl trophies to Baylor athletic director Thad Lepcio as part of the NFL's "On the Fifty" campaign celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Super Bowl. The league is presenting Wilson-produced gold footballs to every player and head coach who has appeared in a Super Bowl, for presentation to his high school or community.

Moore was Baylor's salutatorian in 1976 and was an Academic All-American and All-Ohio Athletic Conference player at Wooster College. He was a member of the Cincinnati Bengals team that lost Super Bowl XVI in 1982. After a six-year NFL career, Moore graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School.

Hannah graduated from Baylor in 1973, having helped lead the Red Raiders to the state championship. He played for three SEC champions and one national champion at Alabama and was a member of the Los Angeles Raiders who won Super Bowl XVIII in 1984.

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