About Baylor Line

The Baylor Line is the core of Baylor spirit and tradition. It is a spirit organization which is entirely composed of freshmen. Students wear gold with the number of their graduation year and nickname on the back. The Baylor Line was organized in the year 1970 and till 1993; it was an all male organization. However, the Baylor women were previously known as the Baylor Sidelines. Today, the Baylor Line is only limited to freshmen. Earlier colors of the Line were rotated among white, Baylor green and Baylor gold, but in the interest of having a more substantial-looking student section, the decision was made to use gold every year. Know more about Baylor Line.

Before each football game, the Baylor Line gathers at the end zone of Floyd Casey Stadium and waits for the signal to rush the field. A sea of yellow jerseys covers the field complete with painted faces and acrobatics. The students begin the cheers and help energize the game-day crowd. Selected six students of the Baylor Line carry the flags with the letters B-A-Y-L-O-R and create an enormous human tunnel for the football players to run through. Then the Baylor Line students move the sidelines and stand in a narrow Baylor Line zone behind the opponents' bench. Students then cheer for Baylor and heckle the other team.

The alma mater of Baylor University is “That Good Old Baylor Line “. The title of this song was created by a group of Baylor men which was basically led by William B. Todd in the year 1907. A year earlier humorous words to the tune of "In the Good Old Summertime" was written by a student. But in the year 1931, Mrs. Enid Eastland Markham, wife of music professor Robert Markham, feeling the words was not dignified enough to represent total University. Later she penned the above words and were presented in chapel in November and soon sanctioned as the official school song. The "Good Old Summer" tune was later arranged to fit Mrs. Markham's "Baylor Line" through the work of Jack Goode, Donald I. Moore and Charles F. Brown.