1954 Texas Longhorns football team
1954 Texas Longhorns football | |
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Conference | Southwest Conference |
1954 record | 4-5-1 (2-3-1 SWC) |
Head coach | Ed Price |
Home stadium |
Texas Memorial Stadium (Capacity: 60,130) |
1954 Southwest Conference football standings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
#10 Arkansas $ | 5 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SMU | 4 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 6 | – | 3 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
#19 Rice | 4 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
#18 Baylor | 4 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Texas | 2 | – | 3 | – | 1 | 4 | – | 5 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TCU | 1 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Texas A&M | 0 | – | 6 | – | 0 | 1 | – | 9 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1954 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin during the 1954 college football season. On October 2, 1954, Carl Talmadge “Duke” Washington became the first African-American to play in Texas Memorial Stadium. Washington scored on a 73-yard run in the second quarter, but Texas won the game 40-14.[1]
Schedule
Date | Opponent# | Rank# | Site | Result | Attendance | ||||
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September 18 | LSU* | No. 4 | Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX | W 20–6 | 36,000 | ||||
September 25 | at No. 2 Notre Dame* | No. 4 | Notre Dame Stadium • Notre Dame, IN | L 0–21 | 57,594 | ||||
October 2 | Washington State* | No. 12 | Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX | W 40–14 | 27,000 | ||||
October 9 | vs. No. 1 Oklahoma* | No. 15 | Cotton Bowl • Dallas, TX (Red River Rivalry) | L 7–14 | 76,204 | ||||
October 16 | No. 12 Arkansas | Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX (Rivalry) | L 7–20 | 42,000 | |||||
October 23 | at Rice | Rice Stadium • Houston, TX | L 7–13 | 70,500 | |||||
October 30 | No. 18 SMU | Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX | T 13–13 | 50,000 | |||||
November 6 | at No. 20 Baylor | Baylor Stadium • Waco, TX | L 7–13 | 32,000 | |||||
November 13 | at TCU | Amon G. Carter Stadium • Fort Worth, TX | W 35–34 | 37,000 | |||||
November 25 | Texas A&M | Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX (Rivalry) | W 22–13 | 58,000 | |||||
*Non-conference game. Homecoming. #Rankings from AP Poll. All times are in Central Time. |
References
- ↑ Dettmer, David (23 April 2012). "The past and present meet at Texas".
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