The 1925 Texas Tech Matadors football team was an
American football
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team that represented Texas Technological College (now known as
Texas Tech University
Texas Tech University (Texas Tech, Tech, or TTU) is a public university, public research university in Lubbock, Texas, United States. Established on February 10, 1923, and called Texas Technological College until 1969, it is the flagship instit ...
) as an independent during the
1925 college football season
The 1925 college football season ended with no clear national champion. At the close of the season, noted sports writer Billy Evans described the championship contest as "a dead heat" among Dartmouth, Tulane, Michigan, Washington, and Alabam ...
. In its first season of intercollegiate football, Texas Tech compiled a 6–1–2 record.
Windy Nicklaus
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was the team captain. The team played its home games at the
South Plains Fairgrounds in
Lubbock, Texas
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.
The school opened for business in the fall of 1925. University president
Paul W. Horn
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presided over the first meeting of its faculty being held on September 15, 1925.
Ewing Y. Freeland was hired as the school's athletic director and coach in June 1925. He had been a star athlete at Vanderbilt and the coach at SMU in 1922 and 1923.
On October 17, 1925, the team won the first game in program history, defeating
Montezuma College of
New Mexico
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by a 30–0 score.
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On November 5, 1925, Texas Tech defeated Wayland Baptist by a score that has been reported as either 120–0][ or 115–0.]
Schedule
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Game summaries
McMurry
The first intercollegiate game in school history was played in Lubbock on October 3, 1925, ending in a scoreless tie with . The Matadors attempted a 35-yard field goal at the end of the game; Texas Tech made the kick but the snap occurred after the time-keeper whistled that the game had ended.[
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