The 1934 Hardin–Simmons Cowboys 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

Hardin–Simmons University Hardin–Simmons University (HSU) is a private Baptist university in Abilene, Texas. It is affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas (Southern Baptist Convention). History Hardin–Simmons University was founded as Abilene Baptist ...

as a member of the

Texas Conference The Texas Conference was a college athletic conference in the United States that existed from 1926 to 1956. During its existence, a total of 11 different colleges in Texas, and one from New Mexico, were members. History The conference was created ...

during the

1934 college football season The 1934 college football season was the 66th season of college football in the United States. Two New Year's Day bowl games were initiated to rival the Rose Bowl Game. On February 15, Warren V. Miller and Joseph M. Cousins organized the New Orl ...

. The team compiled a 3–5–2 overall record with a conference mark of 2–2–1.

Les Cranfill Leslie Willard Cranfill (May 18, 1899 – July 29, 1983) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach. He served two stints as the head football coach at Hardin–Simmons University Hardin–Simmons University (HSU) is a private Bap ...

was the team's head coach for the fifth year. He had played football at Hardin-Simmons and had first joined the school's coaching staff in 1926. Following three consecutive losing seasons, the school's athletic director, G.B. Sandefer, announced in January 1935 that Cranfill had resigned as head coach.

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