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1965 Texas Longhorns football team

American college football season

American college football season

FieldValue
year1965
teamTexas Longhorns
sportfootball
imageUT&T text logo.svg
image_size100
conferenceSouthwest Conference
short_confSWC
record6–4
conf_record3–4
head_coachDarrell Royal
hc_year9th
stadiumMemorial Stadium

The 1965 Texas Longhorns football team was an American football team that represented the University of Texas (now known as the University of Texas at Austin) as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1965 NCAA University Division football season. In their ninth year under head coach Darrell Royal, the Longhorns compiled an overall record of 6–4, with a mark of 3–4 in conference play, and finished tied for fourth in the SWC.

Tommy Nobis was in his final year at Texas and was known as an "iron man", playing (and starting) on both defense and offense for his entire college career. Aside from being an All-American linebacker, he also played guard on the offensive side of the ball but he still was able to perform at a high level and won a number of major individual awards including the Knute Rockne Award, best lineman, the Outland Trophy, best interior lineman, and the Maxwell Award for college football's best player. Nobis also finished seventh in the Heisman voting to USC's Mike Garrett. He appeared on the covers of LIFE, Sports Illustrated and TIME magazines.

Schedule

The season opener against Tulane was originally scheduled to be played in New Orleans, but was switched to Austin because of significant destruction caused by Hurricane Betsy.

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Game summaries

Oklahoma

Texas' eight straight win in the Red River series.

Awards and honors

  • Tommy Nobis, Maxwell Award
  • Tommy Nobis, Outland Trophy
  • Tommy Nobis, Consensus All-American

1965 team players in the NFL

The following players were drafted into professional football following the season.

  • Tommy Nobis was also drafted by the Houston Oilers in the first round of the 1966 American Football League draft.

References

References

  1. "1965 Texas Longhorns Schedule and Results". Sports Reference LLC.
  2. Padwe, Sandy. (September 14, 1965). "Football's Top Five for 1965". Meriden Journal, via Google News.
  3. (October 14, 1965). "Nobis' Knee Injury Problem for Texas". The Altus Times-Democrat, via Google News.
  4. (September 19, 1965). "Longhorns slap down bumbling Tulane, 31–0". Austin American-Statesman.
  5. (September 26, 1965). "Longhorns bowl over Texas Tech, 33 to 7". The Odessa American.
  6. (October 3, 1965). "Texas topples I.U., 27–12; Unbeaten Longhorns win 3d". The Indianapolis Star.
  7. (October 10, 1965). "Texas rolls past Oklahoma 19 to 0". The Vernon Daily Record.
  8. (October 17, 1965). "Late drive spells win for Arkie over Texas". The Clarion-Ledger.
  9. (October 24, 1965). "Field goal gives Rice 20–17 upset win over Texas". The El Paso Times.
  10. (October 31, 1965). "SMU Mustangs humiliate Texas Longhorns, 31–14". Longview Morning Journal.
  11. (November 7, 1965). "Texas goes in air to clobber Baylor". Express and News.
  12. (November 14, 1965). "Owls do it, Hogs do it, even educated Frogs do it". The Victoria Advocate.
  13. (November 26, 1965). "Steers get last laugh, 21–17". Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
  14. [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=mq6pegT_rlEC&dat=19651010&printsec=frontpage&hl=en "Texas Continues March as Sooners Fall, 19-0." Palm Beach Post. 1965 Oct 10.]
  15. [http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/DI/2010/Awards.pdf Awards]
  16. "Team 1966".
  17. ''NFL 2001 Record and Fact Book'', Workman Publishing Co, New York, NY, {{ISBN. 0-7611-2480-2, p. 399
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