1965 Texas Longhorns football team

The 1965 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1965 NCAA University Division football season.

1965 Texas Longhorns football
ConferenceSouthwest Conference
1965 record6–4 (3–4 SWC)
Head coach
Home stadiumMemorial Stadium
(Capacity: 60,130)
1965 Southwest Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 3 Arkansas $ 7 –0 –0  10 –1 –0
Texas Tech 5 –2 –0  8 –3 –0
TCU 5 –2 –0  6 –5 –0
Texas 3 –4 –0  6 –4 –0
Baylor 3 –4 –0  5 –5 –0
SMU 3 –4 –0  4 –5 –1
Texas A&M 1 –6 –0  3 –7 –0
Rice 1 –6 –0  2 –8 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

Regular season

Tommy Nobis was in his final year at Texas[1] and was known an iron man, playing (and starting) on both defense and offense for his entire college career. Aside from being an All-American linebacker, he also played guard on the offensive side of the ball[1] and was often the primary blocker on touchdown runs. Famed Texas coach Darrell K Royal called him "the finest two-way player I have ever seen." A knee injury slowed him during the latter part of his senior season,[2] but he still was able to perform at a high level and won a number of major individual awards including the Knute Rockne Award, best lineman, the Outland Trophy, best interior lineman, and the Maxwell Award for college football's best player. Nobis also finished seventh in the Heisman voting to USC's Mike Garrett. He appeared on the covers of LIFE, Sports Illustrated and TIME magazines.

Schedule

The Longhorns finished the regular season with a 6-4-0 record.

The season opener vs. Tulane was originally scheduled to be played in New Orleans, but significant destruction throughout the city caused by Hurricane Betsy prompted the site to be switched to Austin.

DateTimeOpponentRankSiteTVResultAttendance
September 188:00 p.m.Tulane*No. 2
W 31-040,000
September 257:30 p.m.Texas TechNo. 3
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Austin, TX (rivalry)
W 33-765,310
October 27:30 p.m.Indiana*No. 1
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Austin, TX
W 27-1257,000
October 92:00 p.m.vs. Oklahoma*No. 1
NBCW 19-075,504
October 162:30 p.m.at No. 3 ArkansasNo. 1
NBCL 24-2742,000
October 237:00 p.m.RiceNo. 5
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Austin, TX (rivalry)
L 17-2063,000
October 302:00 p.m.at SMUNo. 9
  • Cotton Bowl
  • Dallas, TX
L 14-3148,000
November 61:30 p.m.Baylor
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Austin, TX
NBCW 35-1457,500
November 132:00 p.m.TCU
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Austin, TX (rivalry)
L 10-2551,500
November 251:00 p.m.at Texas A&M
W 21-1740,000
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
  • All times are in Central time

[3]

Game summaries

Oklahoma
1 234Total
Oklahoma 0 000 0
• Texas 0 9010 19

Texas' eight straight win in the Red River series.[4]

1965 team players in the NFL

The following players were drafted into professional football following the season.[5]

PlayerPositionRoundPickFranchise
Tommy NobisLinebacker11Atlanta Falcons
Diron TalbertDefensive tackle566Los Angeles Rams
Phil HarrisBack7104New York Giants
Pete LammonsEnd14213Cleveland Browns
  • Tommy Nobis was also drafted by the Houston Oilers in the first round of the 1966 American Football League draft.[6]

Awards and honors

References
  1. Padwe, Sandy (September 14, 1965). "Football's Top Five for 1965". Meriden Journal, via Google News. Meridan, Connecticut. Newspaper Enterprise Association.
  2. "Nobis' Knee Injury Problem for Texas". The Altus Times-Democrat, via Google News. Altus, Oklahoma. United Press International. October 14, 1965.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-11-01. Retrieved 2009-12-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Texas Continues March as Sooners Fall, 19-0." Palm Beach Post. 1965 Oct 10.
  5. Team 1966
  6. NFL 2001 Record and Fact Book, Workman Publishing Co, New York,NY, ISBN 0-7611-2480-2, p. 399
  7. Awards
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