1893 Texas Longhorns football team

1893 Texas Longhorns football
State champion
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–0
Head coach
  • None
CaptainPaul McLane
Home stadiumZoo Park, Hyde Park
Seasons
1894 →
1893 Southern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Maryland     6 0 0
Texas     4 0 0
Central (KY)     2 0 0
Howard     2 0 0
North Carolina A&M     2 0 0
Vanderbilt     6 1 0
Auburn     3 0 2
Virginia     8 2 0
Ole Miss     4 1 0
Centre     4 1 0
Trinity (NC)     3 1 0
VMI     3 1 0
Kentucky State College     5 2 1
Delaware     2 1 0
Georgia Tech     2 1 0
Guilford     2 1 0
West Virginia     2 1 0
William & Mary     2 1 0
Navy     5 3 0
Richmond     3 2 0
Georgetown     4 4 0
Sewanee     3 3 0
Furman     1 1 0
Georgia     2 2 1
Western Maryland     1 1 0
Johns Hopkins     2 3 2
North Carolina     3 4 0
Tennessee     2 4 0
Tulane     1 2 0
Wake Forest     1 2 0
Hampden–Sydney     0 1 0
LSU     0 1 0
Maryville (TN)     0 1 0
Mercer     0 1 0
Wofford     0 1 0
VAMC     0 2 0
Alabama     0 4 0

The 1893 Texas Varsity[a] football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1893 college football season. In Texas' first year of playing college football, they went undefeated, pulling off an upset over the Dallas Athletic Club.[1]

While various unsponsored football matches had been played at the university since at least 1883; James Morrison and brothers Paul & Ray Mclane are usually credited as being the founders of the Texas football program. Even though the University's Athletic Association had been founded in 1892, college football at the time was usually managed by the players. Paul taught the team, almost all of whom had never played the sport before. Since the team did not have a coach until the following season, Paul served as the defacto team captain.[2][3]


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  1. ^ "All-Time Results" (PDF).
  2. ^ "The University of Texas played its first football game 130 years ago today". burntorangenation.com. November 30, 2023. Retrieved December 3, 2024.
  3. ^ "Longhorn Football 1883- 1926". texaslsn.org. January 22, 2024. Retrieved December 20, 2024.

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