Dixie University was a short-lived college in downtown Dallas, Texas that was chartered in 1933 by the Somerville Law School partly to expand into a liberal arts college, [1] and partly to create a home for the displaced 1932 Jefferson Rangers football team to relocate. The law school was re-branded in the spring of 1933 and held its first Dixie Law School graduation then. In the fall of 1933 Dixie University opened with 400 students in the law school and the brand-new undergraduate colleges. However, by the spring of 1935 Dixie had failed and the liberal arts college shut its doors without notice. Somerville Law School, founded in 1929, carried on until 1947 before it eventually closed, too.
