1941 Texas Mines Miners football team

1941 Texas Mines Miners football
ConferenceBorder Conference
Record4–5–1 (3–4 Border)
Head coach
Home stadiumKidd Field
Seasons
← 1940
1942 →
1941 Border Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Arizona $ 5 – 0 – 0 7 – 3 – 0
Texas Tech 2 – 0 – 0 9 – 2 – 0
West Texas State 4 – 1 – 0 8 – 2 – 0
Hardin–Simmons 3 – 1 – 0 7 – 3 – 1
New Mexico 3 – 2 – 1 5 – 4 – 1
Texas Mines 3 – 4 – 0 4 – 5 – 1
Arizona State 2 – 4 – 1 5 – 1 – 1
Arizona State–Flagstaff 1 – 5 – 0 3 – 5 – 0
New Mexico A&M 0 – 6 – 0 2 – 7 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1941 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 1941 college football season. In its 13th and final season under head coach Mack Saxon, the team compiled a 4–5–1 record (3–4 against Border Conference opponents), finished sixth in the conference, and was outscored by a total of 192 to 184.[1][2]

Halfback Owen Price and guard William Caver were selected by the conference coaches as first-team players on the 1941 All-Border Conference football team. Tackle William Shoopman was named to the second team.[3]

Texas Mines was ranked at No. 202 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System.[4]

  1. ^ "1941 UTEP Miners Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved January 5, 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 10, 2019.
  3. ^ "Arizona, Hardin-Simmons Dominate All-Border Eleven". Arizona Republic. December 15, 1941. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 26, 1941). "Gophers Grid Kings Over 6-Year Span: Tennessee 2d, Pitt 3d Over Period Litkenhous Ratins Are Published". The Courier-Journal. p. Sports 4 – via Newspapers.com.