The 1914 Texas Longhorns football team was an American football team that represented the University of Texas as an independent during the

1914 college football season The 1914 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Army, Illinois, and Texas as having been selected national champions. Only Illinois claims a national championship fo ...

. In their fourth season under head coach Dave Allerdice, the Longhorns compiled an 8–0 record, shut out five of eight opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 358 to 21. There was no contemporaneous system in 1914 for determining a national champion. However, Texas was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report using its alternate "margin of victory" methodology. Other selectors chose Army or Illinois as the national champion. Guard

Louis Jordan Louis Thomas Jordan (July 8, 1908 – February 4, 1975) was an American saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and bandleader who was popular from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as " the King of the Jukebox", he earned his high ...

was selected by Walter Camp as a second-team player on the 1914 All-America college football team.

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