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1941 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team

American college football season

Field	Value
year	1941
team	Texas Tech Red Raiders
sport	football
image	TTUFootball1941vsMiamiFL.jpg
image_size	285
image_caption	1941 Texas Tech football team in action against the [Miami Hurricanes](1941-miami-hurricanes-football-team)
conference	Border Conference
short_conf	Border
record	9–2
conf_record	2–0
head_coach	Dell Morgan
hc_year	1st
off_scheme	Single-wing
def_scheme	[6–2](6-2-defense)
stadium	Tech Field
bowl	[Sun Bowl](1942-sun-bowl)
bowl_result	L 0–6 vs. [Tulsa](1941-tulsa-golden-hurricane-football-team)

The 1941 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team was an American football team that represented Texas Tech University as a member of the Border Conference during the 1941 college football season. In their first season under head coach Dell Morgan, the Red Raiders compiled a 9–2 record (2–0 against conference opponents), lost to Tulsa in the 1942 Sun Bowl, and outscored opponents by a total of 226 to 36. The team shut out six opponents, allowed only 3.3 points per game, and ranked second ranked in scoring defense among 119 major college teams during the 1941 season. The team did not play sufficient number of games against conference opponents to qualify for the conference championship.

Quarterback Tyrus Bain and fullback Charles Dvoracek were selected by the conference coaches as second-team players on the 1941 All-Border Conference football team.

Texas Tech was ranked at No. 46 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941.

Home games were played at Tech Field in Lubbock, Texas.

Schedule

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References

"1941 Texas Tech Red Raiders Schedule and Results". Sports Reference LLC.
(December 15, 1941). "Arizona, Hardin-Simmons Dominate All-Border Eleven". Arizona Republic.
Dr. E. E. Litkenhous. (December 26, 1941). "Gophers Grid Kings Over 6-Year Span: Tennessee 2d, Pitt 3d Over Period Litkenhous Ratins Are Published". The Courier-Journal.
(September 21, 1941). "Texas Tech Crushes Abilene Christian". Paris News.
Arthur Edson. (October 4, 1941). "Texas Tech Rolls Up Early Lead, Dumps Aggies, 16-6". The Daily Oklahoman.
Charles Curtis. (October 11, 1941). "Texas Speed Masters Loyola Defense, 14-0". Los Angeles Times.
(October 19, 1941). "Tech Wallops Centenary 25-0". The El Paso Times.
(October 25, 1941). "Lobos Blanked by Texas Tech as Red Raiders Pile Up 36 Points". Albuquerque Journal.
Guy Butler. (November 1, 1941). "Hurricane Stock Hits New High With Brilliant Upset Of Texans". The Miami News.
(November 9, 1941). "Creighton Falls, 13-6: Texas Tech Rally Beats Jays". The Des Moines Register.
(November 16, 1941). "Billikens Routed by Texas Tech". St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
(November 21, 1941). "Tech Beats Hardin-Simmons: Red Raiders Hand Cowboys Third Loss of Season". The Amarillo Daily News.
(November 30, 1941). "Wake Forest Falls Before Raiders, 35-6". Austin American-Statesman.
(January 2, 1942). "Rifle-Armed Tailback Glenn Dobbs Leads Tulsa to 6-0 Win in Sun Bowl; Border Loop Jinx Still On". Del Paso Herald-Post.

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