1941 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team

The 1941 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team was an American football team that represented Texas Tech University as a member of the Border Conference during the 1941 college football season. In their first season under head coach Dell Morgan, the Red Raiders compiled a 9–2 record (2–0 against conference opponents), lost to Tulsa in the 1942 Sun Bowl, and outscored opponents by a total of 226 to 36. The team shut out six opponents, allowed only 3.3 points per game, and ranked second ranked in scoring defense among 119 major college teams during the 1941 season.^[1] The team did not play sufficient number of games against conference opponents to qualify for the conference championship.

Quarterback Tyrus Bain and fullback Charles Dvoracek were selected by the conference coaches as second-team players on the 1941 All-Border Conference football team.^[2]

Texas Tech was ranked at No. 46 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941.^[3]

Home games were played at

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Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 21	Tech Field Lubbock, TX	W 7–0	9,000	[4]
October 3	vs. Oklahoma A&M*	Taft Stadium Oklahoma City, OK	W 16–6	5,000	[5]
October 10	at Loyola (CA)*	Gilmore Stadium Los Angeles, CA	W 14–0	15,000	[6]
October 18	Centenary*	Tech Field Lubbock, TX	W 25–0	7,000	[7]
October 24	New Mexico	Tech Field Lubbock, TX	W 36–0	7,000	[8]
October 31	at Miami (FL)*	Burdine Stadium Miami, FL	L 0–6	25,000	[9]
November 8	Creighton*	Tech Field Lubbock, TX	W 13–6	6,000	[10]
November 15	Saint Louis*	Tech Field Lubbock, TX	W 46–6	4,000	[11]
November 21	Hardin–Simmons	Tech Field Lubbock, TX	W 7–0	16,000	[12]
November 29	vs. Wake Forest*	American Legion Memorial Stadium Charlotte, NC	W 35–6	7,000	[13]
January 1	vs. Tulsa*	Kidd Field El Paso, TX (Sun Bowl)	L 0–6	12,000–14,000	[14]
*Non-conference game Homecoming

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