1943 Texas Longhorns football team
| 1943 Texas Longhorns football | |
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Southwest Conference champion | |
Cotton Bowl Classic, T 7–7 vs. Randolph Field | |
| Conference | Southwest Conference |
| Ranking | |
| AP | No. 14 |
| 1943 record | 7–1–1 (5–0 SWC) |
| Head coach | Dana X. Bible (7th season) |
| Home stadium |
War Memorial Stadium (Capacity: 40,500) |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 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* | War Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX | W 65–6 | ||||||
| October 2 | No. 11 Southwestern (TX)* | War Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX | L 7–14 | ||||||
| October 9 | vs. Oklahoma* | Cotton Bowl • Dallas, TX (Red River Shootout) | W 13–7 | ||||||
| October 16 | Arkansas | War Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX (rivalry) | W 34–0 | ||||||
| October 23 | Rice | No. 16 | War Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX (rivalry) | W 58–0 | |||||
| October 30 | at SMU | No. 16 | Cotton Bowl • Dallas, TX | W 20–0 | |||||
| November 13 | TCU | No. 16 | War Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX (rivalry) | 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.  | |||||||||
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
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-11-01. Retrieved 2009-12-11.
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