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Fall 1996
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A near-century of football at NT has seen good, bad
people involved. The school’s presi-
during its first season.
Rogers, in December 1928, Marquis
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area colleges such as Austin College the years of the Freshman Rule, NT for the Pittsburgh as a defensive lineman in the Steelers’ famed Francisco in 1970 and Leonard Dun-
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Daily Reporter
because it was a new member.
In 1922, the Normal Boys were
lap to Baltimore in 1971. In all, 47
players from NT have played in the
NFL and eight have played in Canada
in the CFL.
The most recent draftees have
been Anthony Bridges in 1995 to Ari-
zona, Tomur Barnes to Houston in ppdn
1992, Scott Bowles to San Francisco,
Scott Davies to Pittsburgh and Erric
Pegram to Atlanta, all in 1991.
NT’s football tradition goes back
94 years. With the green and white
still being worn, the NT Eagles are
moving into the 21st century at the
Division I-A level looking for success
and respect.
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Football Preview
The North Texas Daily
began with the Texas Intercollegiate Mitchell went on to coach the Eagles ‘
Athletic Association (TIAA) in 1921 for 21 seasons with a combined 1
after NT developed a four-year cur- record of 122-85-9. The first postwar l
riculum. The football team went game was a 47-0 loss to Texas A&M (
undefeated in conference play in 1922 in 1946, but NT went on to its only 3
but could not claim the championship bowl game victory in football history
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tered a train to Sherman for a game conference championship seven of 11
against Austin College. The game seasons and only fell to third place
was forfeited to Austin College after twice.
an argument over an official’s call. Odus Mitchell took over the head
The first conference affiliation coaching position following the war.
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of Sherman and Durant Normal Col- still managed a 44-25-8 combined “Steel Curtain.”
lege of Durant, Okla. record before freshman eligibility was later that season. On Dec. 21, 1946, Conference. Conference titles were
Hired in 1915, J.W. St. Clair restoredin 1938. NT beat College of the Pacific from won in five of the eight seasons NT
served as the first regular coach for By 1930, the conference had California 14-13 in Houston’s Opti- competed in the Gulf Coast.
men’s athletics. Five years later, expanded with four new members, mist Bowl. Three years later, Fouts Field was
Theron J. Fouts became the football Marquis wanted the new TIAA to In the 1947 season, the Eagles won completed at a cost of $764,981.
coach. Fouts coached five seasons split into east and west divisions, the conference title with a 10-1 sea- When constructed, the stadium held
before later becoming athletic direc- Instead, Marquis and NT along with son, losing only to Arkansas. ‘NT lost 20,000. A distinguishing feature of
tor and having Fouts Field named in five other schools decided to form the its second bowl game appearance 13- the stadium are the 18 stone plaques
his honor. Lone Star Conference in 1931. 6 against the University of Nevada in depicting various athletic scenes
In 1919, the first sports writer from North Texas State Teachers Col- the Salad Bowl held later that season which are found in a series on both
the Campus Chat, the student news- lege, NT’s second name, competed in Phoenix. sides of the stands.
paper’s original name, covered an for 14 years in the Lone Star Confer- In 1949, NT was renamed North In 1957, NT began to compete in
out-of-town game versus Simmons ence before intercollegiate competi- Texas State College, and joined a new the Missouri Valley Conference.
College in Abilene. Simmons won tion was suspended after the 1942-43 athletic conference, the Gulf Coast With a 9-2 record, NT won a trip to
23-0 in a game called on account of season because of World War II. Dur-
darkness. The next week, fans char- ing those 14 years, the Eagles won the
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State University, 1965,” published in Rule under which freshmen could not I
1965, details the university’s first 75 participate in athletics. According to |
NT football has experienced many renamed the Eagles in a student elec-
changes since the first game in 1902. tion. “Glory To The Green,” NT’s
For one thing, NT has changed names alma mater, was also written in 1922
five times and competed in six differ- by students Charles Langford and
ent athletic conferences Julia Smith.
. The one constant has been the One problem facing early Eagle
school’s colors which were adopted football teams was getting enough
the Sun Bowl in 1959. The 28-8 loss
to New Mexico State was the last
time NT has played in a bowl game.
NT won the conference championship
five times before becoming a Divi-
sion I-A Independent in 1975.
One of NT’s better known coaches
was Hayden Fry. Fry gained more
publicity7 after moving on to coach
Iowa. Between 1973-78, the Eagles
were a combined 40-23-3 under Fry.
Between 1983-94, NT competed in
the Division I-AA Southland Confer- *euiw
ence. NT was a combined 64-63-3
before becoming a Division I-A pro-
gram again in 1995.
Corky Nelson became the head
football coach before the 1982 sea-
son. Under Nelson, NT went a com-
bined 48-52-1.
NT’s football program has pro-
duced many All-Americans and NFL
players. In all, NT has had 19 players
win All-American honors. Three
players have been NFL first round
The James L. Rogers book, “The dent, R.L. Marquis, thought no effort
Story of North Texas: From Texas should be made to attract players.
Normal College, 1890 to North Texas Marquis believed in the Freshman
Initially a club team, the Normal said, “Spoiled high school athletes
Boys from Texas Normal College, should be allowed to cool their heels
NT’s original name, played most of a year before getting on a collegiate
their games against non-collegiate team.”
opponents. The football club often Marquis’s belief caused a split in
teamed up with Denton High School the TIAA. Five teams left the confer-
to play other nearby high schools. ence and on Dec. 1, 1929, all remain-
The start of intercollegiate sports ing schools put the Freshman Rule
began in 1913 with a 13-0 loss to the into effect. Teams with “The Rule”
TCU football team. For the next sev- often had their best recruits stolen
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