1936 Texas Mines Miners football team

1936 Texas Mines Miners football
ConferenceBorder Conference
Record5–3–1 (2–1–1 Border)
Head coach
1936 Border Conference football standings
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Arizona $ 3 – 0 – 0 5 – 2 – 3
2 – 1 – 1 5 – 3 – 1
New Mexico A&M 3 – 2 – 0 6 – 4 – 1
Arizona State 2 – 3 – 0 4 – 5 – 0
Arizona State–Flagstaff 1 – 2 – 1 3 – 4 – 1
New Mexico 1 – 4 – 0 2 – 7 – 0
Texas Tech 0 – 0 – 0 5 – 4 – 1
  • $ – Conference champion
  • Arizona State and Arizona State–Flagstaff played twice, but only the first meeting counted in the conference standings. The game between Arizona and Texas Tech also did not count in the conference standings.

The 1936 Texas Mines Miners football team was an American football team that represented Texas School of Mines (now known as University of Texas at El Paso) as a member of the Border Conference during the 1936 college football season. In its eighth season under head coach Mack Saxon, the team compiled a 5–3–1 record (2–1–1 against Border Conference opponents), finished second in the conference, lost to Hardin–Simmons in the first Sun Bowl game, and outscored all opponents by a total of 92 to 86.[1][2]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 25at West Texas State*
L 7–13[3]
October 3New Mexico Military*
W 13–63,000[4]
October 17New Mexico
  • Kidd Field
  • El Paso, TX
W 12–7[5]
October 24at Sul Ross*
W 6–0[6]
October 31at Silver City Teachers*Silver City, NMW 21–01,500[7]
November 7at Arizona State–Flagstaff
T 0–0[8]
November 14Arizona State
  • Kidd Field
  • El Paso, TX
L 0–194,000[9]
November 26New Mexico A&M
W 27–75,500[10]
January 1, 1937vs. Hardin–Simmons
L 6–349,000[11]
  • *Non-conference game

References

  1. ^ "1936 UTEP Miners Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved January 6, 2019.
  2. ^ "2014 UTEP Media Guide" (PDF). University of Texas at El Paso. 2014. p. 175. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 3, 2014. Retrieved January 6, 2019.
  3. ^ "Miners drop close clash". The El Paso Times. September 26, 1936. Retrieved April 1, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Texas Miners win". San Angelo Standard-Times. October 4, 1936. Retrieved April 1, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Texas Mines defeat Lobos". The Arizona Republic. October 18, 1936. Retrieved April 1, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Sul Ross trimmed by Muckers 6 to 0". The Abilene Morning Reporter-News. October 25, 1936. Retrieved April 1, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ John R. Ward (November 1, 1936). "Texas Miners Score 21–0 Victory Over Silver City Teachers". The El Paso Times. pp. 21–22 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Miners And Flagstaff Battle To Scoreless Tie On Soft Field". The El Paso Times. November 8, 1936. pp. 17, 19 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Mines folds up in last half as Tempe cops in 19 to 0 tilt". The El Paso Times. November 15, 1936. Retrieved April 1, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Miners' Sun Bowl grid opponent in doubt". El Paso Herald-Post. November 27, 1936. Retrieved April 1, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ Paxton H. Dent (January 2, 1937). "Cowboys Win Over Miners In Sun Bowl". The El Paso Times. pp. 1, 8 – via Newspapers.com.


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