1948 Texas Mines Miners football team

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1948 Texas Mines Miners football
Sun Bowl, L 12–21 vs. West Virginia
Conference Border Conference
Record8–2–1 (4–1–1 Border)
Head coach
Home stadium Kidd Field
Seasons
  1947
1949  
1948 Border Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Texas Tech $ 5 0 07 3 0
Texas Mines 4 1 18 2 1
Arizona 3 2 06 5 0
Arizona State 3 2 05 5 0
Hardin–Simmons 3 2 16 2 3
West Texas State 2 3 06 5 0
Arizona State–Flagstaff 1 2 04 5 0
New Mexico 1 6 02 0 0
New Mexico A&M 0 4 03 7 0
  • $ Conference champion

The 1948 Texas Mines Miners football team was an American football team that represented Texas School of Mines (now known as University of Texas at El Paso) as a member of the Border Conference during the 1948 college football season. In its third season under head coach Jack Curtice, the team compiled an 8–2–1 record (4–1–1 against Border Conference opponents), finished second in the conference, defeated West Virginia in the 1949 Sun Bowl, and outscored all opponents by a total of 361 to 182. [1]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 18vs. McMurry * Odessa, TX W 33–14
September 25 Houston *W 35–76,000 [2]
October 9 West Texas State
  • Kidd Field
  • El Paso, TX
W 21–7
October 15 BYU *
  • Kidd Field
  • El Paso, TX
W 34–20
October 23at New Mexico W 27–13
October 30 Hardin–Simmons
  • Kidd Field
  • El Paso, TX
T 27–27
November 6at Texas Tech Lubbock, TX L 6–4614,000
November 13at Arizona W 25–14
November 25 New Mexico A&M
  • Kidd Field
  • El Paso, TX
W 92–7
December 4at Hawaii * Honolulu, HI W 49–614,000
January 1, 1949 West Virginia *
L 12–21
  • *Non-conference game

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References

  1. "1948 UTEP Miners Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved January 5, 2019.
  2. "Miners flash 35–7 win over Houston". The El Paso Times. September 26, 1948. Retrieved April 25, 2022 via Newspapers.com.