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In 1953, Texas Tech football coach DeWitt Weaver approached a student named Joe Kirk Fulton about becoming the Masked Rider. DeWitt's Red Raiders were 10-1-0 in football and headed to Jacksonville, Florida for the Gator Bowl. At the time, Texas Tech was hoping to be invited to join the Southwest Conference. All the other teams had a mascot, and ...
Texas Tech (then known as Texas Technological College) fielded its first intercollegiate football team during the 1925 season.The team was known as the "Matadors" from 1925 to 1936, a name suggested by the wife of E. Y. Freeland, the first football coach, to reflect the influence of the Spanish Renaissance architecture on campus.
Raider Red is a Wild West character with an oversized cowboy hat. He carries two guns which he fires into the air after Texas Tech scores. [1] Jim Gaspard, a member of the Texas Tech Saddle Tramps student spirit organization, created the original design for the Raider Red costume based on a character created by Lubbock, Texas, cartoonist and former mayor Dirk West. [2]
The Victory Bells rang in Lubbock Saturday night as the Texas Tech football team defeated 10th-ranked Iowa State 23-22 on the road, becoming bowl-eligible.Red Raider fans took to social media to ...
While Texas Tech might have fallen to TCU on Saturday in Ft. Worth, social media was set on fire by stunt from the Red Raider's kicker that garnered national attention. Here is what you need to know.
Red Raider fans took to social media in a firestorm to voice their homecoming heartbreak as Tech falls to Baylor on Saturday.
The 1993 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented the Texas Tech University as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1993 NCAA Division I-A football season. Led by seventh-year head coach Spike Dykes , the Red Raiders compiled an overall record of 6–6 with a mark of 5–2 in conference play, tying for second place in ...
The Texas Tech Football account encouraged fans to engage with the new good luck charm online, posting a photo of the marsupial with its teeth bared and claws digging into the turf. "Caption it ...