1946 Texas Longhorns football team
The 1946 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas, Austin in 1946 college football season. The Longhorns were led by the future College Football Hall of Fame head coach, Dana X. Bible, in his tenth year at Texas and final year of coaching. Texas was the first-ranked team in the initial AP Poll, before sliding throughout the season. The Longhorns posted a record of 8–2 and received a final ranking of 15th.[1][2]
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Conference | Southwest Conference |
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AP | No. 15 |
1946 record | 8–2 (4–2 SWC) |
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Home stadium | War Memorial Stadium (Capacity: 40,500) |
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Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 10 Rice + | 5 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 16 Arkansas + | 5 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 3 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 15 Texas | 4 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Texas A&M | 4 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SMU | 2 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 5 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TCU | 2 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 7 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Baylor | 0 | – | 6 | – | 0 | 1 | – | 8 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Schedule
Date | Opponent | Rank | Site | Result |
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September 21 | Missouri* | W 42–0 | ||
September 28 | Colorado* |
| W 76–0 | |
October 5 | Oklahoma A&M* |
| W 54–6 | |
October 12 | vs. No. 1 Oklahoma* | W 20–13 | ||
October 19 | No. 14 Arkansas | No. 3 |
| W 20–0 |
October 26 | at No. 16 Rice | No. 3 | L 13–18 | |
November 2 | SMU | No. 7 |
| W 19–3 |
November 9 | at Baylor | No. 6 | W 22–7 | |
November 16 | at TCU | No. 6 | L 0–14 | |
November 28 | Texas A&M | No. 20 |
| W 24–7 |
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Awards and honors
- Hub Bechtol, End, Consensus All-American[3]
References
- Texas Yearly Results, College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved June 11, 2009. Archived 2009-06-15.
- Texas 1946 AP Football Rankings Archived 2012-03-13 at the Wayback Machine, AP Poll Archive, retrieved June 11, 2009.
- http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/DI/2010/Awards.pdf
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