On the morning of January 22, 1927, Baylor University's basketball team set out by bus for Austin to play the University of Texas that night.
The game, however, would never be contested.
Ten of the twenty-two passengers died when a train hit the team's bus at a crossing in Round Rock--the worst such accident in Texas history at the time.
The students who died soon became known as The Immortal Ten, eulogized across the state and nation.
This is their story.
About the Author Todd Copeland graduated from Baylor in 1990 and is director of communications and editor of the Baylor Line, a quarterly magazine published by the Baylor Alumni Association since 1946.
He also holds degrees from The University of Georgia and Texas A&M University.
He has edited and written for Baylor-related publications since 1992.
Big Bear Books The immortal ten: the definitive account of the 1927 tragedy and its legacy at baylor university, paperback/todd copeland
