1926 Texas Tech Matadors football team

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1926 Texas Tech Matadors football
1926 Texas Tech football team
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–1–3
Head coach
Captains
  • Hurley Carpenter (1st year)
  • Volney Hill (1st year)
Home stadiumSouth 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 Tech in the 1926 college football season. The season marked the first time the Matadors (later the Red Raiders) played the TCU Horned Frogs.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendance
September 21at McMurryAbilene, TXW 7–0
October 2SchreinerT 0–03,500
October 8St. Edward's
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 [1]
November 18Howard Payne
  • Tech Field
  • Lubbock, TX
W 26–6 [2]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. ^ a b Biggers, James; Collins, Anna Belle, eds. (1927). La Ventana. Lubbock, Texas: The Student Body of Texas Technological College. p. 99.