American football
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team represented
Austin College
Austin College is a private liberal arts college affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA) and located in Sherman, Texas.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
1935 college football season
The 1935 college football season was the last one before the Associated Press writers' poll was used in selecting the national champion. There were seven contemporary math system selectors that year who are informally recognized by the NCAA as "n ...
. Led by Bill Pierce in his first season as head coach, the team compiled an overall record of 7–2–2 with a mark of 4–0–2 in conference play, winning the program's first and only Texas Conference championship. Talmadge Crook was the team's captain. Austin lost its first two games of the season, both on the road. The first came in
Commerce, Texas
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, to , who finished the season as co-champions of the
Lone Star Conference
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. The second was a 60–0 rout in
Dallas
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Southwest Conference
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Austin
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Austin Kangaroos football
Austin College is a private liberal arts college affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA) and located in Sherman, Texas.