1926 Texas Tech Matadors football team

The 1926 Texas Tech Matadors football team represented Texas Tech in the 1926 college football season. The season marked the first time the Matadors (later the Red Raiders) played the TCU Horned Frogs.

1926 Texas Tech Matadors football
1926 Texas Tech football team
ConferenceIndependent
1926 record6–1–3
Head coachEwing Y. Freeland (2nd season)
Captains
  • Hurley Carpenter (1st year)
  • Volney Hill (1st year)
Home stadiumSouth Plains Fairgrounds
Tech Field
1926 Southern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Loyola (LA)      10 0 0
Miami (FL)      8 0 0
Navy      9 0 1
Texas Tech      6 1 3
Davidson      7 2 1
Georgetown      7 2 1
William & Mary      7 3 0
Hampden–Sydney      5 2 3
Middle Tennessee      4 2 1
West Virginia      6 4 0
Texas A&I      4 3 0
Wake Forest      5 4 1
Texas Mines      3 4 0
Catholic University      3 5 0
Delaware      3 5 0
Duke      3 6 0
East Tennessee State      2 4 1
Oglethorpe      3 7 1
Richmond      2 7 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendance
September 21at McMurryAbilene, TXW 7–0
October 2SchreinerT 0–03,500
October 8St. Edward's
  • Tech Field
  • Lubbock, TX
W 7–63,500
October 15at Simmons (TX)Abilene, TXT 0–03,000
October 23Clarendon College
  • Tech Field
  • Lubbock, TX
W 14–0
October 30at TCU
L 16–28
November 5at Daniel BakerBrownwood, TXT 0–0
November 11Abilene Christian
  • Tech Field
  • Lubbock, TX
W 29–6
November 18Howard Payne
  • Tech Field
  • Lubbock, TX
W 26–6 3,500
November 25at West Texas StateCanyon, TXW 7–25,000

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Notes

1.^ 1927 La Ventana yearbook lists the score of this game as 28–7.[2]
2.^ 1927 La Ventana yearbook lists the score of this game as 27–6.[2]

References

  1. 2012 Texas Tech Football Media Supplement
  2. Biggers, James; Collins, Anna Belle, eds. (1927). La Ventana. Lubbock, Texas: The Student Body of Texas Technological College. p. 99.


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