The 1942 North Texas State Teachers Eagles football team was an

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team that represented the North Texas State Teachers College (now known as the

University of North Texas The University of North Texas (UNT) is a public research university in Denton, Texas. It was founded as a nonsectarian, coeducational, private teachers college in 1890 and was formally adopted by the state 11 years later."Denton Normal School," ...

) during the 1942 college football season as a member of the

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. In their first and only year under head coach

Lloyd Russell Lloyd Opal Russell (April 10, 1913 – May 24, 1968) was an American football and baseball player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He served as the head football coach at North Texas State Teachers College, now the University of ...

, the team compiled a 3–5 record. North Texas was ranked at No. 317 (out of 590 college and military teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1942.

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