1942 Texas Longhorns football team
| 1942 Texas Longhorns football | |
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Southwest Conference champion Cotton Bowl Classic champion | |
Cotton Bowl Classic, W 14–7 vs. Georgia Tech | |
| Conference | Southwest Conference |
| Ranking | |
| AP | No. 11 |
| 1942 record | 9–2 (5–1 SWC) |
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| Home stadium | War Memorial Stadium (Capacity: 40,500) |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 11 Texas $ | 5 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rice | 4 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 7 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| TCU | 4 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Baylor | 3 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 6 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Texas A&M | 2 | – | 3 | – | 1 | 4 | – | 5 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SMU | 1 | – | 4 | – | 1 | 3 | – | 6 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Arkansas | 0 | – | 6 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1942 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin during the 1942 college football season.
Schedule[]
| Date | Opponent | Rank | Site | Result | Attendance |
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| September 19 | Corpus Christi NAS* |
| W 40–0 | 7,500 | |
| September 26 | Kansas State* |
| W 64–0 | ||
| October 3 | at Northwestern* |
| L 0–3 | ||
| October 10 | vs. Oklahoma* |
| W 7–0 | 20,000 | |
| October 17 | at Arkansas | No. 20 | Little Rock, AR (rivalry) | W 47–6 | |
| October 24 | at Rice | No. 15 |
| W 12–7 | |
| October 31 | SMU | No. 17 |
| W 21–7 | |
| November 7 | Baylor | No. 14 |
| W 20–0 | |
| November 14 | at TCU | No. 8 |
| L 7–13 | |
| November 26 | Texas A&M | No. 18 |
| W 12–6 | |
| January 1, 1943 | vs. No. 5 Georgia Tech* | No. 11 |
| W 14–7 | 36,620 |
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Awards and honors[]
- , Cotton Bowl co-Most Valuable Player
- Roy McKay, Cotton Bowl co-Most Valuable Player
- Stanley Mauldin, Cotton Bowl co-Most Valuable Player
References[]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on November 1, 2010. Retrieved December 11, 2009.
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