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1926 Texas Tech Matadors football
1926 Texas Tech football team
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–1–3
Head coach
Offensive scheme T formation
Base defense 7–2–2
Captains
  • Hurley Carpenter
  • Volney Hill
Home stadium South Plains Fairgrounds
Tech Field
Seasons
←  1925
1927 →
1926 Southern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Loyola (LA)     10 0 0
Miami (FL)     8 0 0
Howard     7 0 0
Delaware State     1 0 0
No. 2 Navy     9 0 1
Wesley     6 1 0
Texas Tech     6 1 3
Davidson     7 2 1
Georgetown     7 2 1
William & Mary     7 3 0
Hampden–Sydney     5 2 3
George Washington     5 4 0
Middle Tennessee State Teachers     4 2 1
Spring Hill     3 2 1
Texas A&I     4 3 0
Wake Forest     5 4 1
Texas Mines     3 4 0
Mississippi State Teachers     3 4 1
Tennessee Docs     3 5 1
Catholic University     3 5 0
Delaware     3 5 0
East Tennessee State Teachers     2 4 1
Duke     3 6 0
Georgia Normal     1 3 0
Richmond     2 7 0
Harding     1 5 0
West Tennessee State Teachers     1 8 0
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1926 Texas Tech Matadors football team represented Texas Technological College—now known as Texas Tech University—as an independent in the 1926 college football season. Led by second year head coach Ewing Y. Freeland, the Matadors compiled a record of 6–1–3 The season marked the first time that Texas Tech played the TCU Horned Frogs.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendance
September 21at McMurry Abilene, TXW 7–0
October 2 SchreinerT 0–03,500
October 8 St. Edward's
W 7–63,500
October 15at Simmons (TX)Abilene, TXT 0–03,000
October 23 Clarendon College
  • Tech Field
  • Lubbock, TX
W 14–0
October 30at TCUL 16–28
November 5at Daniel Baker Brownwood, TXT 0–0
November 11 Abilene Christian
  • Tech Field
  • Lubbock, TX
W 29–6 [1]
November 18 Howard Payne
  • Tech Field
  • Lubbock, TX
W 26–6 [2]3,500
November 25at West Texas State Canyon, 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. ^ a b Biggers, James; Collins, Anna Belle, eds. (1927). La Ventana. Lubbock, Texas: The Student Body of Texas Technological College. p. 99.