The 1933 Dixie Rebels football team was an

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team that represented

Dixie University Dixie University was a short-lived college in downtown Dallas, Texas that was chartered in 1933 by the Somerville Law School partly to expand into a liberal arts college, and partly to create a home for the displaced 1932 Jefferson Rangers footb ...

(affiliated with Somerville School of Law) during the

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. In its first season of intercollegiate football, albeit with a mostly veteran team from the

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, Dixie compiled a 2–4 record with victories over and , though they scored just one touchdown in each win. In what was considered a benchmark game, Dixie traveled to

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to play

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and was trounced 33–0. The head coach of Dixie was Nick Dobbs, and was assisted by Jim Hamrick, the captain of the 1932 Jefferson Rangers. The team captain was star running back Jodie Whire, formerly at the

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, but he left the team and the school at the end of September and was succeeded by Jake "Rabbit" Minnehan as the captain. On October 27, Dobbs resigned prior to the season finale and was replaced by Hamrick. The Rebels finished with a close loss to

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. Dixie University was created by Nick Dobbs in collaboration with the Somerville Law School executives as a new college to transplant his football team-without-a-home Rangers. After Jefferson University kicked the team out of that university, Dobbs proclaimed “What is wrong with a ready-made football team getting itself a university?” And with that Dixie was born to house the football team and apparently some college curricula. But the excitement that Dobbs created in 1932 had vanished almost as fast and his 1933 Rebels started to fall apart.

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