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The 1920 Southwest Texas State Bobcats football team was an
American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...
team that represented Southwest Texas State Normal School—now known as Texas State University–as an independent during the
1920 college football season The 1920 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing California, Georgia, Harvard, Notre Dame, and Princeton as national champions. Only California and Princeton claim na ...
. The 1920 Southwest Texas State team adopted the nickname "Bobcats" after the ''
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'' had an editorial campaign to adopt an athletic mascot. Prior to this season the team had no nickname. Bobcats were led by second-year head coach Oscar W. Strahan and played their home games at Evans Field in
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. The team's captain was Jesse C. Kellam, who played halfback. Southwest Texas State finished the season with a record of 5–2–1.


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