UT Arlington Mavericks football
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The UT Arlington Mavericks football
team represented the University of Texas at Arlington
from the 1959
through 1985 seasons
. Between 1919 through 1958, UTA competed as a junior college
prior to moving to Division II in 1959 and ultimately Division I in 1970
. UTA played its home games at multiple stadiums throughout their history with the most recent being Maverick Stadium
, in Arlington
, Texas
.
. By 1923
Grubbs was renamed as the North Texas Agricultural College with the football team then playing as the Junior Aggies competing in the Central Texas Conference. As the Aggies, the program captured four conference championships through the 1948 season
. By 1949
, the school would again change its name and mascot in competing as the Arlington State College Blue Riders through the 1950 season
only to again change the mascot to the Rebels for the 1951 season
. Arlington would reach their zeinth as a junior college program in capturing both the 1956
and 1957
Junior Rose Bowls as national junior college champions. Following the 1958 season
, Arlington State became a four-year school and begin competition as a Division II school.
After entering the Southland Conference
as a charter member for the 1964 season, by 1966
, the school officially became the University of Texas at Arlington. As UTA won conference championships in 1966
, 1967
and 1981 seasons in addition to winning their lone bowl game, the 1967 Pecan Bowl
. The program would be officially disbanded after an announcement by then university president Wendell Nedderman on November 26, 1985, citing financial loss as the primary impetus for its abandonment.
College football
College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...
team represented the University of Texas at Arlington
University of Texas at Arlington
The University of Texas at Arlington is a public research university located in Arlington, Texas, United States. The campus is situated southwest of downtown Arlington, and is located in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area. The university was founded in 1895 and served primarily a military...
from the 1959
1959 college football season
The 1959 college football season saw Syracuse University crowned as the national champion by both the AP and the UPI wire services. Mississippi , which had outscored its opponents 350-21, finished #2 in both polls, and its only loss during the regular season had been to LSU, which ultimately...
through 1985 seasons
1985 NCAA Division I-A football season
The 1985 NCAA Division I-A football season saw the Oklahoma Sooners, led by head coach Barry Switzer, win the national championship.Oklahoma finished the season 11-1, with their only loss to Miami at home, in a game future NFL star Troy Aikman was lost for the season...
. Between 1919 through 1958, UTA competed as a junior college
Junior college
The term junior college refers to different educational institutions in different countries.-India:In India, most states provide schooling through 12th grade...
prior to moving to Division II in 1959 and ultimately Division I in 1970
1970 college football season
The 1970 college football season was marked by tragedy, due to two airplane crashes. On October 2, one of the planes carrying the Wichita State football team crashed on the way to a game against Utah State, killing 31 people on board, including 14 players...
. UTA played its home games at multiple stadiums throughout their history with the most recent being Maverick Stadium
Maverick Stadium
Maverick Stadium is a 15,000-seat multi-purpose stadium on the western edge of University of Texas at Arlington campus.It hosts the university's track and field teams as well as many community events, and is also leased to the Arlington Independent School District for use by its high school...
, in Arlington
Arlington, Texas
Arlington is a city in Tarrant County, Texas within the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area. According to the 2010 census results, the city had a population of 365,438, making it the third largest municipality in the Metroplex...
, Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
.
History
The UT Arlington football team traces its roots to 1919 when the program was established as the then Grubbs Vocational College Grubbworms from 1919 through 19221922 college football season
The 1922 college football season had a number of unbeaten and untied teams, and no clear-cut champion. Three different "retro polls", taken years later and based on opinions drawn from historical research, reached different conclusions...
. By 1923
1923 college football season
The 1923 college football season saw several teams finish their seasons unbeaten and untied. Illinois and Michigan The 1923 college football season saw several teams finish their seasons unbeaten and untied. Illinois (coached by Bob Zuppke) and Michigan The 1923 college football season saw...
Grubbs was renamed as the North Texas Agricultural College with the football team then playing as the Junior Aggies competing in the Central Texas Conference. As the Aggies, the program captured four conference championships through the 1948 season
1948 college football season
The 1948 college football season finished with several unbeaten teams. The Michigan Wolverines and the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame were both unbeaten and untied, as were the California Golden Bears and the Clemson Tigers...
. By 1949
1949 college football season
The 1949 college football season finished with four teams that were unbeaten and untied-- Notre Dame, Oklahoma, #3 California and Army had won all their games at season’s end. Notre Dame, however, was the overwhelming choice for national champion, with 172 of 208 first place votes...
, the school would again change its name and mascot in competing as the Arlington State College Blue Riders through the 1950 season
1950 college football season
The 1950 college football season finished with the unbeaten and untied Oklahoma Sooners being the overwhelming choice for national champion. On New Year’s Day, the 9-0-0 Sooners were upset by the 10-1-0 Kentucky Wildcats in the Sugar Bowl. The #2 team, the United States Military Academy had been...
only to again change the mascot to the Rebels for the 1951 season
1951 college football season
The 1951 college football season finished with seven unbeaten major college teams, of which five were unbeaten and untied. Ultimately, the Tennessee Volunteers were voted the best team by the Associated Press, followed by the Michigan State Spartans, with the Vols having a plurality of first place...
. Arlington would reach their zeinth as a junior college program in capturing both the 1956
1956 college football season
The 1956 college football season saw the Sooners of the University of Oklahoma finish a third consecutive season unbeaten and untied to again win the national championship....
and 1957
1957 college football season
The 1957 college football season saw two different national champions. Auburn University was ranked first in the AP writers' poll taken at season's end, while Ohio State University was first in the UPI coaches' poll...
Junior Rose Bowls as national junior college champions. Following the 1958 season
1958 college football season
The 1958 college football season was the first to feature the two point conversion. On January 13, 1958, the 11-man NCAA Rules Committee unanimously approved a resolution to allow teams to choose between kicking an extra point after a touchdown, or running or passing from the 3 yard line for 2...
, Arlington State became a four-year school and begin competition as a Division II school.
After entering the Southland Conference
Southland Conference
The Southland Conference is a college athletic conference which operates in the south central United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I for all sports; for football, it participates in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision...
as a charter member for the 1964 season, by 1966
1966 college football season
The 1966 college football season was marked by controversy as the year of "The Tie", a November 19 game between the two top-ranked teams, Michigan State and Notre Dame. Neither team participated in a post-season bowl game. At the same time, 1966 was the first year that the professional football...
, the school officially became the University of Texas at Arlington. As UTA won conference championships in 1966
1966 college football season
The 1966 college football season was marked by controversy as the year of "The Tie", a November 19 game between the two top-ranked teams, Michigan State and Notre Dame. Neither team participated in a post-season bowl game. At the same time, 1966 was the first year that the professional football...
, 1967
1967 college football season
The 1967 college football season was the last one in which college football's champion was crowned before the bowl games. During the 20th century, the NCAA had no playoff for the college football teams that would later be described as Division I-A and now as Division I FBS...
and 1981 seasons in addition to winning their lone bowl game, the 1967 Pecan Bowl
Pecan Bowl
Pecan Bowl, a postseason college football bowl game, was first played at Shotwell Stadium located in Abilene, Texas. The first game took place in December 1964, and was played there each year until 1968, when the location was moved to Arlington, Texas. One of four regional playoff bowls of the NCAA...
. The program would be officially disbanded after an announcement by then university president Wendell Nedderman on November 26, 1985, citing financial loss as the primary impetus for its abandonment.
Seasons
This listing includes only the seasons UTA competed as a four year college beginning with the 1959 season.| Conference Champions * | Bowl game berth ^ |
| Season | Head coach | Conference | Season results | Bowl result | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference finish | Wins | Losses | Ties | |||||
| Texas-Arlington Mavericks | ||||||||
| 1959 | Chena Gilstrap Chena Gilstrap Chena Gilstrap was the ninth head college football coachfor the University of Texas at Arlington Mavericks located in Arlington, Texasand he held that position for thirteen seasons, from 1953 until 1965.... |
Division II Independent NCAA Division II independent schools NCAA Division II independent schools are four-year institutions that field intercollegiate teams in football and other sports, but which are not formally affiliated with any athletic conference.-Full Division II member:... |
— | 4 | 3 | 0 | — | |
| 1960 | Division II Independent | — | 9 | 2 | 0 | — | ||
| 1961 | Division II Independent | — | 7 | 3 | 0 | — | ||
| 1962 | Division II Independent | — | 4 | 6 | 0 | — | ||
| 1963 | Division II Independent | — | 1 | 8 | 0 | — | ||
| 1964 | Southland Conference Southland Conference The Southland Conference is a college athletic conference which operates in the south central United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I for all sports; for football, it participates in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision... |
5th | 3 | 6 | 1 | — | ||
| 1965 | Southland Conference | 2nd | 6 | 3 | 0 | — | ||
| 1966 * | Burley Bearden Burley Bearden Burley Bearden was the tenth head college football coachfor the University of Texas at Arlington Mavericks located in Arlington, Texasand he held that position for five seasons, from 1966 until 1970.... |
Southland Conference | 1st | 6 | 4 | 0 | — | |
| 1967 * | Southland Conference | 1st | 10 | 1 | 0 | Won 1967 Pecan Bowl against North Dakota Fighting Sioux North Dakota Fighting Sioux football The North Dakota Fighting Sioux are a college football program that competes in the Great West Conference in the NCAA Division I's Football Championship Subdivision... , 13–0 ^ |
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| 1968 | Southland Conference | 2nd | 6 | 4 | 0 | — | ||
| 1969 | Southland Conference | 3rd | 5 | 5 | 0 | — | ||
| 1970 | Southland Conference | 5th | 0 | 10 | 0 | — | ||
| 1971 | John Symank John Symank John Richard "Johnny" Symank was an American college and professional football player who was a defensive back in the National Football League for seven seasons during the 1950s and 1960s. Symank played college football for the University of Florida, and thereafter, he played professionally for... |
Southland Conference | 7th | 2 | 9 | 0 | — | |
| 1972 | Southland Conference | 2nd | 5 | 6 | 0 | — | ||
| 1973 | Southland Conference | 5th | 4 | 6 | 0 | — | ||
| 1974 | Harold Elliott Harold Elliott Harold "Bud" Elliott was an American football coach. He served as the head coach at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas , Washburn University , Emporia State University , the University of Texas at Arlington , Northwest Missouri State University , and... |
Southland Conference | 5th | 1 | 10 | 0 | — | |
| 1975 | Southland Conference | 5th | 4 | 7 | 0 | — | ||
| 1976 | Southland Conference | 3rd | 5 | 6 | 0 | — | ||
| 1977 | Southland Conference | 3rd | 5 | 6 | 0 | — | ||
| 1978 | Southland Conference | 3rd | 5 | 6 | 0 | — | ||
| 1979 | Southland Conference | 2nd | 9 | 2 | 0 | — | ||
| 1980 | Southland Conference | 3rd | 3 | 8 | 0 | — | ||
| 1981 * | Southland Conference | 1st | 6 | 5 | 0 | — | ||
| 1982 | Southland Conference | 6th | 3 | 8 | 0 | — | ||
| 1983 | Southland Conference | 5th | 5 | 6 | 0 | — | ||
| 1984 | Chuck Curtis Chuck Curtis Charles “Chuck” Curtis is a former American football coach. After a stellar collegiate career and a short stint with the NFL's New York Giants, Curtis began his coaching career at the high school level, before serving as last head coach at the University of Texas at Arlington.Growing up in... |
Southland Conference | 3rd | 7 | 4 | 0 | — | |
| 1985 | Southland Conference | 6th | 4 | 6 | 1 | — | ||
| Total | 128 | 150 | 2 | (only includes regular season games) | ||||
| 1 | 0 | 0 | (only includes bowl games) | |||||
| 129 | 150 | 2 | (all games) | |||||
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Stadiums
- Memorial Stadium - Through the 1969 season1969 college football seasonThe 1969 college football season was celebrated as the 100th anniversary of college football. During the 20th Century, the NCAA had no playoff for the college football teams that would later be described as "Division I-A"...
- Turnpike Stadium - 19701970 college football seasonThe 1970 college football season was marked by tragedy, due to two airplane crashes. On October 2, one of the planes carrying the Wichita State football team crashed on the way to a game against Utah State, killing 31 people on board, including 14 players...
through the 1976 seasons1976 college football seasonThe 1976 college football season ended with a championship for the Panthers of the University of Pittsburgh. Coached by Johnny Majors , the Pitt Panthers brought a college football championship to the home of the defending pro football champions, the Steelers. Pitt also had the Heisman Trophy... - Cravens Field - 19771977 college football seasonThe 1977 college football season was one in which the top five teams all finished with records of 11-1-0. Notre Dame, which beat a #1 ranked Texas team in the Cotton Bowl Classic, became the national champion. The year 1977 was the last before NCAA's Division I was divided into I-A and I-AA...
through the 1979 seasons1979 NCAA Division I-A football seasonThe 1979 NCAA Division I-A football season saw the Alabama Crimson Tide bring home a national title with a perfect 12-0 season. The title was Alabama's 11th claimed, though the number is disputed. It was their 6th Associated Press awarded title.... - Maverick StadiumMaverick StadiumMaverick Stadium is a 15,000-seat multi-purpose stadium on the western edge of University of Texas at Arlington campus.It hosts the university's track and field teams as well as many community events, and is also leased to the Arlington Independent School District for use by its high school...
- 19801980 NCAA Division I-A football seasonThe 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season saw Georgia take its first national title since World War II.The Georgia Bulldogs starred freshman running back Herschel Walker, who made his NCAA debut against Tennessee. Down 15-2 at halftime, Georgia sent in Walker, the third string running back at the...
through the 1985 seasons1985 NCAA Division I-A football seasonThe 1985 NCAA Division I-A football season saw the Oklahoma Sooners, led by head coach Barry Switzer, win the national championship.Oklahoma finished the season 11-1, with their only loss to Miami at home, in a game future NFL star Troy Aikman was lost for the season...