1943 Texas Longhorns football team
1943 Texas Longhorns football | |
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Cotton Bowl Classic vs. Randolph Field, T 7-7 | |
Conference | Southwest Conference |
Ranking | |
AP | No. 14 |
1943 record | 7-1-1 (5-0 SWC) |
Head coach | Dana X. Bible |
Home stadium |
Texas Memorial Stadium (Capacity: 40,500) |
1943 Southwest Conference football standings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
#14 Texas $ | 5 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Texas A&M | 4 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rice | 2 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SMU | 2 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TCU | 1 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arkansas | 1 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1943 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin during the 1943 college football season. Before the season began, Tom Landry left the Longhorns and joined the Army Air Corps.[1]
Schedule
Date | Opponent# | Rank# | Site | Result | |||||
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September 25 | Blackland Army Air Field* | Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX | W 65–6 | ||||||
October 2 | No. 11 Southwestern* | Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX | L 7–14 | ||||||
October 9 | vs. Oklahoma* | Cotton Bowl • Dallas, TX (Red River Rivalry) | W 13–7 | ||||||
October 16 | Arkansas | Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX (Rivalry) | W 34–0 | ||||||
October 23 | Rice | No. 16 | Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX | W 58–0 | |||||
October 30 | at SMU | No. 16 | Dallas, TX | W 20–0 | |||||
November 13 | TCU | No. 16 | Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX | W 46–7 | |||||
November 25 | at No. 16 Texas A&M | No. 12 | Kyle Field • College Station, TX (Rivalry) | W 27–13 | |||||
January 1, 1944 | vs. Randolph Field* | No. 14 | Cotton Bowl • Dallas, TX (Cotton Bowl Classic) | T 7–7 | |||||
*Non-conference game. Homecoming. #Rankings from AP Poll. |
Awards and honors
- Joe Parker, Cotton Bowl co-Most Valuable Player
References
- ↑ Giants Among Men, Jack Cavanaugh, p.27, 2008, Random House, ISBN 978-1-4000-6717-6
- ↑ http://www.mackbrown-texasfootball.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/all-time-results.html
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