1943 Southwestern Pirates football team

1943 Southwestern Pirates football
Sun Bowl, W 7–0 vs. New Mexico
Conference	Texas Conference
Record	10–1–1 (0–0 Texas)
Head coach	Randolph M. Medley (5th season)
Captain	Spot Collins

The 1943 Southwestern Pirates football team represented Southwestern University during the 1943 college football season. In Randolph M. Medley's fifth season at Southwestern, the Pirates compiled a 10–1–1 record, shut out six teams, and outscored their opponents by a total of 266 to 59. The Pirates defeated many notable teams during the season, including Texas in Austin, Rice in Houston, and New Mexico in the Sun Bowl, Southwestern's first bowl game. The Pirates tied their only ranked opponent, No. 13 Tulsa, and were themselves ranked. for the first and only season in program history, for a few weeks in October.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance
September 15	at North Texas Agricultural		Farrington Field Fort Worth, TX	W 20–0
September 25	at Ward Island Marines		Buccaneer Field Corpus Christi, TX	W 54–0
October 2	at Texas		War Memorial Stadium Austin, TX	W 14–7
October 9	at South Plains Army Air Field	No. 11	Tech Stadium Lubbock, TX	W 40–0
October 15	North Texas Agricultural	No. 17	Georgetown, TX	W 26–0
October 23	Southwestern Louisiana	No. 11	Georgetown, TX	L 6–27
October 30	at No. 13 Tulsa		Skelly Field Tulsa, OK	T 6–6
November 6	Bryan Army Air Field		Georgetown, TX	W 20–6
November 13	at Abilene Army Air Field		Abilene, TX	W 45–6
November 20	at Arkansas A&M		Shreveport, LA	W 7–0
November 27	at Rice		Rice Field Houston, TX	W 21–7
January 1, 1944	vs. New Mexico		Kidd Field El Paso, TX (Sun Bowl)	W 7–0	18,000
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game