2017 TEXAS FOOTBALL MEDIA GUIDE GREAT GAMES & GREAT MOMENTS In honor of the Centennial Year of Texas Football, a Blue Ribbon committee Bohn Hilliard went off tackle for an 8-yard touchdown. Hilliard added GREAT MOMENT met in the summer of 1992 to select great games and moments in Texas the extra point for all the scoring UT would need. Said Coach Chevigny football history. Additional games from 1992-present have been added to addressing a basketball crowd at Gregory Gym nine months earlier, “I Texas 7, Texas A&M 0 the list. These were their selections. shall do my best to make the flag of Texas fly high among those of the Thursday, November 28, 1940 GREAT GAME schools of the nation.” Memorial Stadium (Austin, Texas) GREAT MOMENT Noble Doss’ incredible over-the-shoulder pass reception on the third Texas 18, Dallas 16 play of the 1940 Texas/Texas A&M game led to the winning TD in the Thursday, November 30, 1893 Texas 7, Notre Dame 6 7-0 Longhorns victory that ended the Aggies’ bid for back-to-back Fairgrounds Park (Dallas) Saturday, October 6, 1934 National Championships. Notre Dame Stadium (South Bend, Ind.) Texas’ very first football game was an astounding upset, as the varsity GREAT GAME sent a band of 15 or 16 players (the exact number was not recorded) Bohn Hilliard stepped through the Notre Dame defense for an eight- north to face the “Champions of Texas” Dallas Foot Ball Club. The Dallas yard score that brought a 7-6 Longhorns victory in 1934. Hilliard’s run #4 Texas 71, Oregon 7 team, which had been undefeated for several years and unscored on followed Jack Gray’s recovery of a Fighting Irish fumble on the game’s Saturday, December 6, 1941 for quite some time as well, fell to the boys from Texas, 18-16. The opening kickoff. Memorial Stadium (Austin, Texas) Thanksgiving Day battle was witnessed by nearly 2,000 fans, the largest crowd to see a Dallas game up to that time. GREAT MOMENT Texas took out its frustration of not being awarded a Rose Bowl bid by overwhelming Oregon, 71-7, at Memorial Stadium. Less than 24 hours GREAT GAME #2 Minnesota 47, Texas 19 later, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. November 14, 1936 Texas 7, Texas A&M 3 Memorial Stadium (Minneapolis) GREAT GAME Thursday, November 25, 1920 Clark Field (Austin, Texas) Hugh Wolfe’s 95-yard kickoff return was the lone bright spot as Texas #11 Texas 14, #5 Georgia Tech 7 fell to the eventual National Champions. The return stood as a UT record Friday, January 1, 1943 The legend of the Texas/Texas A&M rivalry took hold with this historical for 42 years. Said Wolfe, “The kickoff return was a fluke. I picked out the Cotton Bowl (Dallas) meeting. Texas was undefeated and had outscored opponents 275-10. biggest one and ran straight at him, faked left, cut right to see nothing A&M was unbeaten and had not been scored on in two years. The but daylight and the man who held the ball for the kick. He was just Texas’ very first bowl game was a success, as the Longhorns defeated largest crowd in state history (est. 20,000) was on hand to see the getting to his feet when I said “good-bye.” Shirley Temple could have fifth-ranked Georgia Tech, 14-7. Backs Roy Dale McKay and Jackie Field Longhorns win 7-3. The winning score was set up by a tackle-eligible made that TD.” led the way to the win. Texas, not in the Top 10 at the time, was looked pass play in which Tom Dennis made an astounding one-handed catch. on with contempt by many in the media. Said International News Francis Domingues rammed the ball over the goal line on the next play GREAT GAME Services’ Lawton Carver before the game: “Texas doesn’t belong in the for the winning score. Said the Cactus yearbook: “Down on Clark Field, same league with Georgia Tech.” the largest crowd that had ever witnessed a football game in Texas had Texas 14, Arkansas 13 assembled to view the annual clash of the Longhorns and Farmer, a October 21, 1939 GREAT GAME clash upon which the championship of the Southwest depended. And Memorial Stadium (Austin, Texas) when Old Sol completed his journey across the sky, and the curtain had #7 Texas 23, #1 SMU 20 been rung down on the 1920 football season, that same crowd had seen With Texas trailing 13-7 and just 30 seconds remaining in the game, Saturday, November 4, 1950 the Red and White of A&M bow down before the Orange and White of many of the crowd of 17,000 were heading for the exits when UT Memorial Stadium (Austin, Texas) Varsity in one of the greatest games ever staged in these parts. fullback R.B. Patrick flipped a short pass to Jack Crain. Sixty-seven dramatic yards later, those same fans were pouring from the stands Seventh-ranked Texas defeated the top-ranked Mustangs, 23-20. The “Thanksgiving Day, 1920, will forever be remembered in the annals after Crain crossed the goal line with the tying score. After several Longhorns limited SMU great running back Kyle Rote to minus-three of Texas football history, at Varsity at least, for the 7-3 drubbing that minutes, the field was cleared and Crain booted the extra point. It was yards on seven carries. marked the close of an undefeated season for the Longhorns and that UT’s first SWC-opening win since 1933, and the win single-handedly gave the Aggies the first taste of defeat they had in two long years.” revitalized the Texas program. GREAT MOMENT GREAT MOMENT GREAT MOMENT #5 Texas 27, Baylor 20 Saturday, November 11, 1950 Texas 16, Vanderbilt 0 Texas 14, Arkansas 13 Baylor Stadium (Waco, Texas) October 20, 1923 October 21, 1939 The Fairgrounds (Dallas) Memorial Stadium (Austin, Texas) In a pivotal game for the conference championship, stubborn Baylor tied the game at 20 late in the final quarter. That’s when All-American Facing powerful Vanderbilt at Dallas’ State Fair, one of Texas’ finest With 30 seconds on the clock, Jack Crain pulled in a short pass from safety Bobby Dillon changed the complexion of the game with a teams gave a great performance. The highlight was an incredible run, R.B. Patrick and weaved his way to a 67-yard touchdown to defeat sparkling 84-yard punt return for a touchdown with 5:41 left. For right along the sideline, by UT’s great back, Oscar Ekhardt. Onlookers favored Arkansas 14-13 in 1939. The moment was the turning point good measure, Dillon intercepted a last-ditch Baylor pass attempt to said, “he flattened tacklers like dominoes,” until almost down at the in what became the “Renaissance game” of the Dana X. Bible coaching seal the win. 8-yard line. He regained his balance with one hand and plowed over for era at Texas. the score that led to a 16-0 victory. Said the Fort Worth Star-Telegram GREAT GAME of Eckhardt’s run, “Eckhardt, knocked to earth, rose like a phoenix and GREAT GAME blazed down the line until he crossed the thin white marker. In all, he #13 Texas 35, Baylor 33 drove 20 yards through the gold and black to put his name in the Texas Texas 7, Texas A&M 0 Saturday, November 8, 1952 Varsity hall of fame.” Thursday, November 28, 1940 Baylor Stadium (Waco, Texas) Memorial Stadium (Austin, Texas) GREAT GAME In a wild offensive show, Texas edged the Bears 35-33 at Waco. Billy Noble Doss’ “impossible catch” on the third play of the game set up Quinn capped a 74-yard drive with a 1-yard run with 39 seconds on the Texas 7, Notre Dame 6 Texas’ only touchdown, a Pete Layden clock for the UT win. The game featured 46 and 54-yard touchdown Saturday, October 6, 1934 1-yard run on the very next play, as the Longhorns ended Texas A&M’s runs by Texas and a 67-yard punt return and 28-yard pass play for Notre Dame Stadium (South Bend, Ind.) 19-game winning streak with a 7-0 victory at Memorial Stadium. The scores by Baylor. UT win prevented the Aggies from repeating as National Champions and Texas defeated the Irish, 7-6, in a game that brought UT to national also knocked A&M from a sure Rose Bowl appearance. Texas finished prominence. The defeat was Notre Dame’s first opening-game setback the season 8-2, its best record since 1932. since 1896. Texas’ future All-America basketballer Jack Gray recovered a Fighting Irish fumble on the opening kickoff, and four plays later, 185 TEXASSPORTS.COM HISTORY 2017 TEXAS FOOTBALL MEDIA GUIDE GREAT GAMES & GREAT MOMENTS GREAT GAME Mississippi’s 17-pound weight advantage per lineman was too much GREAT GAME for Texas to handle. However, it was the UT defense that held on to a #10 Texas 16, #8 Tennessee 0 12-0 halftime lead and stymied the vaunted Ole Miss passing game. #2 Texas 28, #1 Oklahoma 7 Thursday, January 1, 1953 Quarterback Mike Cotten and halfback James Saxton led the offense, Saturday, October 12, 1963 Cotton Bowl (Dallas) while Defensive MVP Bob Moses, Don Talbert and Johnny Treadwell led Cotton Bowl (Dallas) the defensive charge to Royal’s first bowl triumph. With memories of a 20-14 Cotton Bowl setback to Tennessee in 1951 No.