The 1926 Texas Mines Miners football team, sometimes known as the "Muckers", 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 Texas School of Mines (now known as the

University of Texas at El Paso The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is a public research university in El Paso, Texas. It is a member of the University of Texas System. UTEP is the second-largest university in the United States to have a majority Mexican American stud ...

) as an independent during the

1926 college football season The 1926 college football season was the first in which an attempt was made to recognize a national champion after the season. Stanford, coached by Pop Warner, was the top team in the U.S. under the new Dickinson System and was awarded the Riss ...

. In its third and final season under head coach George B. Powell, the team compiled a 3–4 record and outscored opponents by a total of 106 to 92. The team lost its rivalry game with New Mexico A&M by a 10-8 score.

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