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Oct 2023
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Football Rivalry and Murder - October 30...

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October 30th: Charles Sessums Attacked(1926)

Football rivalries can get intense. So much so that, in some cases, people end up shedding blood for the team they love. On October 30th 1926 a game that should have been in good fun resulted in the end of an innocent young man’s life.


https://wacohistory.org/items/show/190https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Brazoshttps://www.texasstandard.org/stories/whodunit-tries-to-uncover-the-killer-at-a-long-ago-baylor-am-football-game/https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781623496616/battle-of-the-brazos/https://texags.com/forums/5/topics/1730017

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