Interesting Article on the UT Austin football team

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From an article in the 10/26 1912 Galveston Daily News, the UT Austin varsity football team was preparing for a game teh next day with the Haskell HS Indians. Evidently UT played Haskell 9 times in 11 years from 1902-1912.

1902 Haskell 12 UT 0
1903 Haskell 6 UT 0
1904 Haskell 4 UT 0
1905 Haskell 17 UT 0
1906 UT 25 Haskell 6
1907 UT 45 Haskell 38
1908 no game
1909 Haskell 12 UT 11
1910 UT 60 Haskell 3
1911 No Game
1912 UT 14 Haskell 7
 
Sure would be neat to have a sign on the outskirts of Haskell:

All-time series wins ...
Haskell High 5
UT 4

Maybe UT can set up a home-and-home to take a chance at getting the lead in the series.
 
You are probably right on both counts. When the UIL got really going in the 20's, a lot of schools got in deep doo-doo for recruiting and over-age players.
 
Texas can't have that many losing records to other schools. I'd be interested to know how many other schools besides Haskell has the overall upperhand on the Longhorns. ;)

EDIT

Just found a site... I only looked at those who have played a min. of 5 games. Only Miami (Fla.) and Penn State have gotten the better of Texas. Looks like the Indians are in some good company. LOL
 
I found another article in the 1909 Galveston Daily News, 10/17/1909 about the Haskell team playing A&M at A&M. An article in the 10/17/1909 San Antonio Light was on the Haskell-UT game - played at the State Fair in Dallas which they won 12-11 on a last minute fumble recovery run back for a TD.
 
The Indians sure got around in those days. An article in the 10/21/1909 Galveston Daily News had them losing to Baylor 12-0 in Waco.
 
I need to change the title of this thread. The Indians played Nebraska on Thanksgiving in Lincoln and beat them 16-5.
 
I've got to do a little more research, but it looks like there was another Haskell Indians football team. There is a Haskell Indian School in Lawrenceville KS that ran a high school and 4 year college. I do know the articles in the papers did say Haskell High School. Maybe they were confused like I am (most of the time).
 
OK. Confirmed, It was the Haskell Indian School. from Lawrence KS.

I had never heard about this school. They played College football until the late 1930's and only resumed as a NAIA team in 1999. Between 1937 and 1999 they were a combination high school and junior college.
 
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