1965 Texas Longhorns football team

1965 Texas Longhorns football
Conference Southwest Conference
1965 record 6-4 (3-4 SWC)
Head coach Darrell Royal
Home stadium Texas Memorial Stadium
(Capacity: 60,130)

The 1965 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1965 college football season.

Regular season

Tommy Nobis was in his final year at Texas[1] and was known 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[1] and was often the primary blocker on touchdown runs. Famed Texas coach Darrell K. Royal called him "the finest two-way player I have ever seen." A knee injury slowed him during the latter part of his senior season,[2] 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 Longhorns finished the regular season with a 6-4-0 record.

Date Time Opponent# Rank# Site TV Result Attendance
September 18 8:00 PM Tulane* #2 Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX W 31-0   40,000
September 25 7:30 PM Texas Tech #3 Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX (Rivalry) W 33-7   65,310
October 2 7:30 PM Indiana* #1 Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX W 27-12   57,000
October 9 2:00 PM vs. Oklahoma* #1 Cotton Bowl • Dallas, TX (Red River Shootout) NBC W 19-0   75,504
October 16 2:30 PM at #3 Arkansas #1 Razorback Stadium • Fayetteville, AR (Rivalry) NBC L 24-27   42,000
October 23 7:00 PM Rice #5 Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX L 17-20   63,000
October 30 2:00 PM at SMU #9 Cotton Bowl • Dallas, TX L 14-31   48,000
November 6 1:30 PM Baylor Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX NBC W 35-14   57,500
November 13 2:00 PM TCU Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX L 10-25   51,500
November 25 1:00 PM at Texas A&M Kyle Field • College Station, TX (Rivalry) W 21-17   40,000
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming. #Rankings from AP Poll. All times are in Central Time.

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Game notes

Oklahoma

1 234Total
Oklahoma 0 000 0
• Texas 0 9010 19
  • Date: October 9
  • Location: Cotton Bowl, Dallas, TX
  • Game attendance: 75,504

Texas' eight straight win in the Red River series.[4]


1965 team players in the NFL

The following players were drafted into professional football following the season.[5]

Player Position Round Pick Franchise
Tommy Nobis Linebacker 1 1 Atlanta Falcons
Diron Talbert Defensive Tackle 5 66 Los Angeles Rams
Phil Harris Back 7 104 New York Giants
Pete Lammons End 14 213 Cleveland Browns

Awards and honors

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Padwe, Sandy (September 14, 1965). "Football's Top Five for 1965". Meriden Journal, via Google News (Meridan, Connecticut). Newspaper Enterprise Association.
  2. ↑ "Nobis' Knee Injury Problem for Texas". The Altus Times-Democrat, via Google News (Altus, Oklahoma). United Press International. October 14, 1965.
  3. ↑ http://www.mackbrown-texasfootball.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/all-time-results.html
  4. ↑ "Texas Continues March as Sooners Fall, 19-0." Palm Beach Post. 1965 Oct 10.
  5. ↑ Team 1966
  6. ↑ NFL 2001 Record and Fact Book, Workman Publishing Co, New York,NY, ISBN 0-7611-2480-2, p. 399
  7. ↑ Awards

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