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Attached Are The Most Significant Wins And Devastating Losses By The Longhorns In The 80-Year History Of The SWC – Compliments Of Dan Jenkins’s Book “I’ll Tell You One Thing.”
1920- The largest football crowd in the state at the time (20,000) jammed Clark Field to witness Aggie’s first loss in two years. Tom Dennis’s grab of a tackle-eligible pass won the game 7 to 3.
1929- The TCU frogs win 15-12.
1932- TCU stopped powerful running back Koy, Stafford, and Hilliard for the championship 14-0.
1934- Hilliard leads Texas to a victory over Notre Dame 7-6.
1940- Pete Layden, Jack Crain, and Noble Doss upset an Aggie team that had one 19 straight and cost them a Rose ????Bowl bid.
1941- TCU beats the #1 Texas Longhorns 14-7
Dean Bagley, far left barely visible in dark uniforms makes the winning touchdown to beat Texas.
1944- This was the Horn’s first post-season game. Georgia Tech falls to the Horns 14-7.
Ed Ollies gift from the Georgia Tech victory.
1946- Texas was #1 but lost to the Rice Owls 18-13.
1946 Jimmy Canady goes up for pass – #80 is Max Bumgardner
1946- Cotton Bowl – Bobby Layne accounts for all of Texas’s points against Missouri winning 40-27. Bobby still holds the bowl record.
1947- Doak Walker vs. Bobby Layne. Ticket demand was so high the game was moved to the Cotton Bowl. SMU wins 14-13 behind the running of Doak Walker .
1947 Tom Landry # 32 North Carolina
1948- Sugar Bowl- Texas beats Alabama behind Bobby Layne’s leadership 27-7.
1950- SMU is #1, but Longhorn Byron Townsend and Bud McFadin ruled the day, with the Longhorns winning 23-20
Bud McFadin
1952- Texas and Baylor score a lot of points with superior backfields, but Texas wins 35-33.
1955- TCU dominates Texas behind All-American JimSwink, winning 47-20.
1958- In the first year of the two-point conversion, Texas beats O.U. 15-14.
1959- Bob Lily and the rest of TCU beats Texas 14-9
1960- Cotton Bowl Syracuse beats Texas 23-14.
David Kristynik implores defense to stop Styracuse offense
1961- Still one of the biggest upsets in SWC history. #1 Texas loses to TCU 6-0.
1962- Cotton Bowl Jerry Cook intercepts five passes, and Texas beats Mississippi 12-7
Jerry Cook
1962- Culpepper and Treadwell stop Arkansas on the one-yard line, and Texas wins a battle of the undefeated 7-3.
Treadwell #60 and Culpepper #31
1963- O.U. is ranked #1 but Texas wins 28-7
Royal, Ford, McWilliams,Appleton in New York crowned national champions.
1964- Cotton Bowl – #1 Texas beat #2 Navy to win the national championship.
1964- Texas failure to make a 2 point conversion against Arkansas cost them the game 14-13.
1964 Barney Giles just misses tackling Arkansas wingback Jim Lindsey
1965- Orange Bowl- Ernie Koy leads the attack and Texas beats Alabama 21-17.
1965- Texas comes from 20 back but loses in the final seconds to Arkansas 27-24.
1968- The wishbone reigns king of the offenses and Arkansas loses the first of three to the Longhorns 39-29.
Royal, Bradley, Robertson, Gilbert
1969- THE BIG SHOOTOUT- Texas wins 15-14.
1970- An historical game of two great teams but Texas beats Notre Dame 21-17.
1970 Billy Dale winning touchdown against Notre Dame.
1970- One of the most exciting games in the history of Longhorn football. Texas wins with 24 seconds to go on a pass from Phillips to Speyrer 20-17 to keep the winning streak alive. .
Speyrer #88 touchdown against UCLA (2)
1971 – A sequel game of two powerhouses, but Notre Dame wins 24-11.
Eddie Phillips
1973- Cotton Bowl- Texas upsets Alabama behind the running of Alan Lowry and Roosevelt Leaks 17-13.
Alan Lowry with winning touchdown against Alabama.
1974- Baylor comes back from a 24-7 deficit to beat Texas for the first SWC championship in 50 years 34-24.
1975- The Aggies beat Texas 20-10 and almost played for the national championship.
1976- Texas Tech beats DKR’s last Texas team 31-28.
1977- Third-stringer Randy McEachern enters the OU game, and, behind Earl Campbell, wins 13-8.
1977- – Earl Campbell leads the way beating the Razorbacks 13-9.
1978- Texas is unprepared and is defeated easily by Notre Dame 38-10.
1979- Houston is undefeated until meeting Longhorns Jam and Lam Jones, losing 21-13.
Jam Jones
A Texas-SMU Trilogy 1981, 1982, 1983
1981- SMU has some powerful Mustangs in Dickerson, James, and McIlhenny, but Texas wins 9-7.
1981 football Levi Mays, Ken McCune, Dan Hunter, Ken Sims, Robin Sendlein blocking on a SMU field goal attempt.
1982- Cotton Bowl- SMU gets revenge for the 1981 loss winning 30-17.
1983- In the third game of this Texas-SMU trilogy, Texas wins series 2-1 with a 15-13 victory.
1984- A painful loss in a game Texas should have won cost the Horns a national championship to Georgia 10-9.
1990- #1 ranked Houston loses to Butch Hadnot and the Horns 45-24.
Butch Hadnot
1995- James Brown leads and Phil Dawson kicks Texas to a victory over Virginia 17-16.
James Brown
1995- It is the last year of the SWC and a freshman Ricky Williams gains 163 yards in the last SWC Championship game beating Texas A & M 16-6.
1995 Taje Allen, Tre Thomas, Chris Carter, Bryant Westbrook
