The 1925 Texas Tech Matadors football team was an
American football
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team that represented Texas Technological College (now known as
Texas Tech University
Texas Tech University (Texas Tech, Tech, or TTU) is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas. Established on , and called Texas Technological College until 1969, it is the main institution of the five-institution Texas Tech University Sys ...
) as an independent during the
1925 college football season
The 1925 college football season ended with no clear national champion. At the close of the season, noted sports writer Billy Evans described the championship contest as "a dead heat" among Dartmouth, Tulane, Michigan, Washington, and Alabama.
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. In its first season of intercollegiate football, Texas Tech compiled a 6–1–2 record.
Windy Nicklaus
William Winfield "Windy" Nicklaus (January 6, 1904 – January 8, 1991) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Oklahoma Baptist University from 1939 to 1940 and at West Texas A&M University in 1946.
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was the team captain. The team played its home games at the
South Plains Fairgrounds
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in
Lubbock, Texas
Lubbock ( )
is the 10th-most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of government of Lubbock County. With a population of 260,993 in 2021, the city is also the 85th-most populous in the United States. The city is in the northw ...
.
The school opened for business in the fall of 1925. University president
Paul W. Horn
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presided over the first meeting of its faculty being held on September 15, 1925.
Ewing Y. Freeland
Ewing Young "Big 'un" Freeland (January 1, 1887 – August 15, 1953) was an American football and baseball player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He served as the head football coach at Daniel Baker College (1912–1914), Texas C ...
was hired as the school's athletic director and coach in June 1925. He had been a star athlete at Vanderbilt and the coach at SMU in 1922 and 1923.
The first intercollegiate game in school history was played in Lubbock on October 3, 1925, ending in a scoreless tie with .
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On October 17, 1925, the team won the first game in program history, defeating Montezuma College of ]New Mexico
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by a 30–0 score.[
On November 5, 1925, Texas Tech defeated ]Wayland Baptist
Wayland Baptist University (WBU) is a Private university, private Baptist university based in Plainview, Texas. It is affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas (Southern Baptist Convention). Wayland Baptist has 11 campuses in five ...
by a score that has been reported as either 120–0[ or 115–0.]
Schedule
[2012 Texas Tech Football Media Supplement]
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References
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Texas Tech
Texas Tech University (Texas Tech, Tech, or TTU) is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas. Established on , and called Texas Technological College until 1969, it is the main institution of the five-institution Texas Tech University Sys ...
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