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1893 Texas Longhorns football team

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1893 Texas Longhorns football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–0
Head coach
  • None
CaptainJames Morrison
Home stadiumZoo Park, Hyde Park
Seasons
1894 →
1893 Southern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Maryland     6 0 0
Texas     4 0 0
Central (KY)     2 0 0
Howard     2 0 0
North Carolina A&M     2 0 0
Vanderbilt     6 1 0
Auburn     3 0 2
Virginia     8 2 0
Ole Miss     4 1 0
Centre     4 1 0
Trinity (NC)     3 1 0
VMI     3 1 0
Kentucky State College     5 2 1
Delaware     2 1 0
Georgia Tech     2 1 0
Guilford     2 1 0
West Virginia     2 1 0
William & Mary     2 1 0
Navy     5 3 0
Richmond     3 2 0
Georgetown     4 4 0
Sewanee     3 3 0
Furman     1 1 0
Georgia     2 2 1
Western Maryland     1 1 0
Johns Hopkins     2 3 2
North Carolina     3 4 0
Tennessee     2 4 0
Tulane     1 2 0
Wake Forest     1 2 0
Hampden–Sydney     0 1 0
LSU     0 1 0
Maryville (TN)     0 1 0
Mercer     0 1 0
Wofford     0 1 0
VAMC     0 2 0
Alabama     0 4 0

The 1893 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1893 college football season. In Texas' first year of playing college football, they went undefeated, pulling off an upset over a Dallas football club.[1]

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
November 30at Dallas University
W 18–162,000[2][3]
December 16San Antonio Town Team
W 30–0500–600[4][5]
February 3, 18944:15 p.m.at San Antonio Town Team
W 34–0500[6][7]
February 22, 18943:05 p.m.Dallas University
  • Hyde Park
  • Austin, TX
W 16–0[8]

References

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  1. ^ "All-Time Results" (PDF).
  2. ^ "Varsity club wins - Defeats the Dallas club by eighteen to sixteen". The Austin Daily Statesman. December 1, 1893. Retrieved September 4, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Dallas-Austin". Fort Worth Gazette. December 1, 1893. p. 8.
  4. ^ "One more scalp dangles from the belt of the varsity football eleven". The Austin Daily Statesman. December 17, 1893. Retrieved September 4, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "San Antonio defeated". The Houston Post. December 17, 1893. Retrieved September 4, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Austin vs. San Antonio - Five hundred people witness the varsity eleven's victory, score 31 to 0". The Galveston Daily News. February 4, 1894. Retrieved September 4, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Won by Austin". Houston Daily Post. February 4, 1894. p. 4.
  8. ^ "Varsity Wins". Fort Worth Gazette. February 25, 1894. p. 6.