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1925 Texas Tech Matadors football team

American college football season

American college football season

FieldValue
year1925
teamTexas Tech Matadors
sportfootball
imageTTUFootball1925.jpg
image_size285
image_caption1925 Texas Tech football team
conferenceIndependent
record6–1–2
head_coachEwing Y. Freeland
hc_year1st
off_schemeT formation
def_scheme7–2–2
captainWindy Nicklaus
stadiumSouth Plains Fairgrounds
prev_yearnone

The 1925 Texas Tech Matadors football team was an American football team that represented Texas Technological College (now known as Texas Tech University) as an independent during the 1925 college football season. In its first season of intercollegiate football, Texas Tech compiled a 6–1–2 record. Windy Nicklaus was the team captain. The team played its home games at the South Plains Fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas.

The school opened for business in the fall of 1925. University president Paul W. Horn presided over the first meeting of its faculty being held on September 15, 1925.

Ewing Y. Freeland was hired as the school's athletic director and coach in June 1925. He had been a star athlete at Vanderbilt and the coach at SMU in 1922 and 1923.

On October 17, 1925, the team won the first game in program history, defeating Montezuma College of New Mexico by a 30–0 score.

On November 5, 1925, Texas Tech defeated Wayland Baptist by a score that has been reported as either 120–0 It remains Texas Tech's only 100-point game.

Key players included D.C. "Preacher" Calloway who was inducted into the Texas Tech Hall of Honor in 1985.

Schedule

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Game summaries

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The first intercollegiate game in school history was played in Lubbock on October 3, 1925, ending in a scoreless tie with . The Matadors attempted a 35-yard field goal at the end of the game; Texas Tech made the kick but the snap occurred after the time-keeper whistled that the game had ended.

References

References

  1. (September 16, 1925). "Texas Technological College Plans Made". El Paso Times.
  2. (June 17, 1925). "Ewing Freeland To Direct Athletics a Tech. College". The Austin American.
  3. (November 6, 1925). "Football Results". Corsicana Daily Sun.
  4. (October 4, 1925). "Texas Tech Opens Football History in Scoreless Tie". The Shreveport Times.
  5. (October 10, 1925). "Kangaroo eleven battles Matador gridders to tie". Fort Worth Record-Telegram.
  6. (October 18, 1925). "Texas Tech beats Montezuma squad". Fort Worth Record-Telegram.
  7. (October 25, 1925). "Texas Tech wins from Clarendon". Fort Worth Record-Telegram.
  8. (November 1, 1925). "Texas Tech Bowls Over Sul Ross Team". The Waco News-Tribune.
  9. (November 6, 1925). "Texas Tech wins, 115 to 0". The Waco Times-Herald.
  10. (November 12, 1925). "Texas Tech Matadors Face Defeat But Win". The Amarillo Globe.
  11. (November 19, 1925). "Jackets Beat Matadors, 29–0". The Austin American.
  12. (November 27, 1925). "Tech barely wins from West Texas". The Waco News-Tribune.
  13. [https://issuu.com/techathletics/docs/2012_ttu_fb_media_supplement 2012 Texas Tech Football Media Supplement]
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