109 years of UNT football

[TripleGrad]

109 years ago today, the North Texas State Normal football team took the field for the first time when they played TCU. It was a rainy day , and TCU shut out North Texas on a 13-0 final score. North Texas was coached by J.W. Pender and TCU was coached by Fred Cahoon. Here's to 5 fabulous seasons of UNT football!

 

 

Edited November 22, 2022 by TripleGrad

[untcampbell]

We had the horned frogs at home! Before electricity apparently. 

Great find, btw.

 

GMG

[greenjoe]

Mason Fine’s great great grandfather, Murray Fine, completed the only pass attempted.

[SilverEagle]

Until they adopted the Eagle as their mascot (1922) they alternated calling themselves the Denton Normals, or the Denton Teachers. They had been using Green and white since about 1907. One student remembered that  "Someone suggested Mother Nature would be kind to those using her colors". 

[NT93]

Was that game played at Fouts?😂😂

[UNTLifer]

16 minutes ago, SilverEagle said:

They had been using Green and white since about 1907. One student remembered that  "Someone suggested Mother Nature would be kind to those using her colors". 

So, we've had "those" students since the turn of the last century.

[drex]

Game was probably played at the current location of the UNT library...there was a playing field there for years.

[untphd]

55 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

So, we've had "those" students since the turn of the last century.

I was thinking the same thing. Along with trying to figure out what to call themselves.

[untphd]

23 minutes ago, drex said:

Game was probably played at the current location of the UNT library...there was a playing field there for years.

When I first came here there was a pool out there between the union and library, no water in it, but none the less.

[greenjoe]

I learned to swim in that pool as a bitty boy( and yes, it DID have water in it).  I enrolled the summer I graduated from high school ( 1969) and took Freshman English, 131, and springboard diving at that same pool.  

Edited November 22, 2022 by greenjoe

[UNTLifer]

1 hour ago, untphd said:

When I first came here there was a pool out there between the union and library, no water in it, but none the less.

Swam there as a kid.  They closed it when they determined it was too shallow for a high dive.  Seems they could have just lowered the high dive and kept the pool.  Nice scenery back in the day.