The 1934 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

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 ...

. In its sixth season under head coach

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, the team compiled a 4–4 record and outscored opponents by a total of 132 to 104. The school celebrated its 20th anniversary in 1934 and held a parade through El Paso in connection with the October 13 football game.

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