1965 Texas Longhorns football team
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| Conference | Southwest Conference |
| 1965 record | 6-4 (3-4 SWC) |
| Head coach | Darrell Royal |
| Home stadium | Texas Memorial Stadium (Capacity: 60,130) |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #3 Arkansas $ | 7 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 10 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Texas Tech | 5 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| TCU | 5 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Texas | 3 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Baylor | 3 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SMU | 3 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 5 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Texas A&M | 1 | – | 6 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rice | 1 | – | 6 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 8 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1965 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1965 college football season.
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Regular season
Tommy Nobis was in his final year at Texas[1] and was known an iron man, playing (and starting) on both defense and offense for his entire college career. Aside from being an All-American linebacker, he also played guard on the offensive side of the ball[1] and was often the primary blocker on touchdown runs. Famed Texas coach Darrell K. Royal called him "the finest two-way player I have ever seen." A knee injury slowed him during the latter part of his senior season,[2] but he still was able to perform at a high level and won a number of major individual awards including the Knute Rockne Award, best lineman, the Outland Trophy, best interior lineman, and the Maxwell Award for college football’s best player. Nobis also finished seventh in the Heisman voting to USC’s Mike Garrett. He appeared on the covers of LIFE, Sports Illustrated and TIME magazines.
Schedule
The Longhorns finished the regular season with a 6-4-0 record.
| Date | Time | Opponent# | Rank# | Site | TV | Result | Attendance | ||
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| September 18 | 8:00 PM | Tulane* | #2 | Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX | W 31-0 | 40,000 | |||
| September 25 | 7:30 PM | Texas Tech | #3 | Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX (Rivalry) | W 33-7 | 65,310 | |||
| October 2 | 7:30 PM | Indiana* | #1 | Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX | W 27-12 | 57,000 | |||
| October 9 | 2:00 PM | vs. Oklahoma* | #1 | Cotton Bowl • Dallas, TX (Red River Shootout) | NBC | W 19-0 | 75,504 | ||
| October 16 | 2:30 PM | at #3 Arkansas | #1 | Razorback Stadium • Fayetteville, AR (Rivalry) | NBC | L 24-27 | 42,000 | ||
| October 23 | 7:00 PM | Rice | #5 | Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX | L 17-20 | 63,000 | |||
| October 30 | 2:00 PM | at SMU | #9 | Cotton Bowl • Dallas, TX | L 14-31 | 48,000 | |||
| November 6 | 1:30 PM | Baylor | Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX | NBC | W 35-14 | 57,500 | |||
| November 13 | 2:00 PM | TCU | Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX | L 10-25 | 51,500 | ||||
| November 25 | 1:00 PM | at Texas A&M | Kyle Field • College Station, TX (Rivalry) | W 21-17 | 40,000 | ||||
*Non-conference game.  Homecoming. #Rankings from AP Poll. All times are in Central Time. |
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Game notes
Oklahoma
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Texas' eight straight win in the Red River series.[4]
1965 team players in the NFL
The following players were drafted into professional football following the season.[5]
| Player | Position | Round | Pick | Franchise |
| Tommy Nobis | Linebacker | 1 | 1 | Atlanta Falcons |
| Diron Talbert | Defensive Tackle | 5 | 66 | Los Angeles Rams |
| Phil Harris | Back | 7 | 104 | New York Giants |
| Pete Lammons | End | 14 | 213 | Cleveland Browns |
- Tommy Nobis was also drafted by the Houston Oilers in the first round of the 1966 American Football League draft.[6]
Awards and honors
- Tommy Nobis, Maxwell Award
- Tommy Nobis, Outland Trophy
- Tommy Nobis, Consensus All-American[7]
References
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- ↑ http://www.mackbrown-texasfootball.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/all-time-results.html
- ↑ "Texas Continues March as Sooners Fall, 19-0." Palm Beach Post. 1965 Oct 10.
- ↑ Team 1966
- ↑ NFL 2001 Record and Fact Book, Workman Publishing Co, New York,NY, ISBN 0-7611-2480-2, p. 399
- ↑ Awards
