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The Texas Tech Red Raiders football statistical leaders are individual statistical leaders of the Texas Tech Red Raiders football program in various categories, [1] including passing, rushing, receiving, total offense, defensive stats, and kicking. Within those areas, the lists identify single-game, single-season and career leaders.
The Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, representing Texas Tech University, has had 155 players drafted into the National Football League (NFL) since the league began holding drafts in 1936. [1] A 1 ] This includes nine players taken in the first round and one overall number one pick , Dave Parks in the 1964 NFL draft . [ 4 ]
Texas Tech (then known as Texas Technological College) fielded its first intercollegiate football team during the 1925 season.The team was known as the "Matadors" from 1925 to 1936, a name suggested by the wife of E. Y. Freeland, the first football coach, to reflect the influence of the Spanish Renaissance architecture on campus.
In his senior year, Hammond lead all Texas quarterbacks with 3,901 passing yards and 35 passing touchdowns, along with 1,077 rushing yards and 19 rushing touchdowns. [1] Rated as a consensus four-star recruit, Hammond committed to Texas Tech over offers from other programs such as Auburn, Oregon, Penn State, and Texas A&M. [2]
Texas Tech (then known as Texas Technological College) fielded its first intercollegiate football team during the 1925 season. The team was known as the " Matadors " from 1925 to 1936, a name suggested by the wife of E. Y. Freeland , the first football coach, to reflect the influence of the Spanish Renaissance architecture on campus .
This is a list of the starting quarterbacks for the Texas Longhorns football teams since 1944. [1] They are listed in order of the first game each player started for the Longhorns that season. A player is credited with a win if he started the game and the team won that game, no matter if the player was injured or permanently removed after the ...
Morton saw playing time in four of the team's first five games before being named Texas Tech's starting quarterback after both Shough and Smith suffered injuries. [9] He completed 39 of 62 passes for 379 yards and two touchdowns with one interception and rushed 16 times for 46 yards and one touchdown in his first career start, a 41–31 loss to ...
In 1960, Texas Tech was admitted to the Southwest Conference. The Red Raiders won two conference championships in 1976 and 1994, under head coaches Steve Sloan and Spike Dykes respectively. Texas Tech became a charter member in the South Division of the Big 12 Conference in 1996 when the Southwest Conference disbanded. During his ninth season ...