1901 – 8-2-1 – Coach S.H. Thompson
First Thanksgiving A & M game Texas 32 A & M 0
The 1901 team played 5 games in 13 days, beating Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas A & M, but losing to Kirksville and Kansas. Thompson was a hard nose coach. Some thought he was a mad man.
The University of Texas Administration wanted to play the American School of Osteopathy in Missouri. Coach told UT decision-makers not to legitimize the Missouri team by playing them. He said the Missouri team used illegal recruiting techniques by selecting pick-ups from all over the country. UT administration did not listen. Texas lost 48-0.
76 years later, Abe Lemons is the head basketball coach at Texas, and illegal recruiting is still a major problem in collegiate sports.
Abe shared with anyone who would listen that many recruiters in the SWC choose to discard their moral compass and replace it with loaded dice.
He thought football recruiters were the best at using “creative” and illegal strategies to sign collegiate athletes. Cynic Abe made his point in a public statement.
“When they get to the bottom of this Watergate thing, bet your last dollar they’ll find a football coach.”
Visit the link below for the history of recruiting in collegiate sports:
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