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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 February 2025. Intercollegiate team representing The University of Texas at Austin in American football "Texas football" redirects here. For the magazine, see Dave Campbell's Texas Football. Texas Longhorns football 2025 Texas Longhorns football team First season 1893 ; 132 years ago Athletic director ...
Throughout the 80-year history of the conference, Texas was the most dominant football program in its history, winning 27 conference championships and representing the champion in the Cotton Bowl Classic a record 22 times. 1996 brought about the formation of the new Big 12 Conference and new talks about Texas winning a national championship ...
First organized intercollegiate football game in Texas. [96] [97] The first organized football games in Texas involving a college both occurred November 30, 1893. Texas defeated the Dallas Football Club 18–16 at Fair Park in Dallas; while Austin College defeated a Dallas club team 16–4 in Sherman. [98] ND November 3, 1894 North Dakota ...
1946 was an important year in the history of professional football, as that was the year when the league reintegrated. The Los Angeles Rams signed two African American players, Kenny Washington and Woody Strode. Also that year, a competing league, the All-America Football Conference (AAFC), began operation. [171]
Southwest Texas State Normal School [4] first fielded a football team in 1904. [5] Oscar W. Strahan, for whom the current basketball arena is named, was hired as the university's first director of athletics, and served as the team's first head football coach from 1919 to 1934. [6]
Established October 6, 1999; 25 years ago () [1] First season: 2002 Play in and headquartered in NRG Stadium Houston, Texas [2]: League / conference affiliations; National Football League (2002–present)
After winning the Denver Post's Gold Helmet award and helping Wheat Ridge High School win its first state football championship, [2] Steinmark was a member of the 1969 Texas Longhorns football team, which won a national championship. Texas beat the 1969 Arkansas Razorbacks football team 15-14 in the "Game of the Century" on December 6, 1969 ...
Norton's record at Texas A&M was 82–53–9, giving him the second most wins of any coach in Texas A&M Aggies football history. [12] Among the many stars that Norton developed were John Kimbrough and Joe Routt. [11] Norton was fired in 1947 when his team went 3–6–1 and lost to archrival University of Texas for the eighth straight year. [13]