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1954 Texas Longhorns football team

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1954 Southwest Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 10 Arkansas $ 5 1 0 8 3 0
SMU 4 1 1 6 3 1
No. 19 Rice 4 2 0 7 3 0
No. 18 Baylor 4 2 0 7 4 0
Texas 2 3 1 4 5 1
TCU 1 5 0 4 6 0
Texas A&M 0 6 0 1 9 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1954 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin during the 1954 college football season. On October 2, 1954, Duke Washington became the first African-American to play in Memorial Stadium. Washington scored on a 73-yard run in the second quarter, but Texas won the game, 40–14.[1]

Schedule

September 18LSU*No. 4

W 20–6 36,000 September 25at No. 2 Notre Dame*No. 4

L 0–21 57,594 October 2Washington State*No. 12

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Austin, TX

W 40–14 27,000 October 9vs. No. 1 Oklahoma*No. 15

L 7–14 76,204 October 16No. 12 Arkansas

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Austin, TX (Rivalry)

L 7–20 42,000 October 23at Rice

L 7–13 70,500 October 30No. 18 SMU

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Austin, TX

T 13–13 50,000 November 6at No. 20 Baylor

L 7–13 32,000 November 13at TCU

W 35–34 37,000 November 25Texas A&M

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Austin, TX (rivalry)

W 22–13 58,000

Template:CFB Schedule End

References

  1. ^ Dettmer, David (23 April 2012). "The past and present meet at Texas".