1971 Texas A&M Aggies football team

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1971 Texas A&M Aggies football
Conference Southwest Conference
Record5–6 (4–3 SWC)
Head coach
Home stadium Kyle Field
Seasons
←  1970
1972  →
1971 Southwest Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 18 Texas $ 6 –1 –08 –3 –0
No. 16 Arkansas 5 –1 –18 –3 –1
TCU 5 –2 –06 –4 –1
Texas A&M 4 –3 –05 –6 –0
SMU 3 –4 –04 –7 –0
Rice 2 –4 –13 –7 –1
Texas Tech 2 –5 –04 –7 –0
Baylor 0 –7 –01 –9 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1971 Texas A&M Aggies football team represented Texas A&M University in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC). The Aggies were led by head coach Gene Stallings in his seventh season and finished with a record of five wins and six losses (5–6 overall, 4–3 in the SWC).

Stallings was fired as head coach and athletic director at the conclusion of the season and replaced by Emory Bellard, offensive coordinator of archrival Texas and the architect of the Wishbone formation. Bellard was hired after LSU coach Charles McClendon rejected a lucrative offer to become the Aggies' coach and AD (McClendon was not AD at LSU, unusual for the time in the Southeastern Conference).

Stallings was hired by Tom Landry to be an assistant coach with the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys, a position he held until he was named head coach of the St. Louis Cardinals in 1986. Stallings returned to college coaching in 1990 as head coach at Alabama.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 11 Wichita State *
W 41–729,580
September 18at LSU *
L 0–3768,576 [1]
September 25at No. 1 Nebraska *
L 7–3467,993
October 2 Cincinnati *
  • Kyle Field
  • College Station, TX
L 0–1726,627
October 9at Texas Tech
L 7–2844,380
October 16at TCU
L 3–1431,910
October 23 Baylor
W 10–928,662
October 30at No. 8 Arkansas
W 17–954,446
November 6 SMU
  • Kyle Field
  • College Station, TX
W 27–1027,358–28,570
November 13at Rice
W 18–1347,000
November 25No. 12 Texas
  • Kyle Field
  • College Station, TX (rivalry)
L 14–3452,090
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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References

  1. ↑ "LSU returns, swamps A&M". The Nashville Tennessean. September 19, 1971. Retrieved October 22, 2023– via Newspapers.com.
  2. ↑ "1971 Texas A&M Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved January 12, 2016.


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