The Longhorns football team will continue competing in the Big 12 through the 2023 season before moving to the SEC in 2024. ## Conference affiliations Texas has been affiliated with four conferences and twice been an independent. Independent (1893–1895, 1905–1912) Southern Intercollegiate Athletic...
Why are we Longhorns? Posted on March 15, 2024 1 Why are University of Texas athletic teams known as Longhorns? Mascots for American colleges and universities are usually connected to the rise of intercollegiate sports, particularly football, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Some ...
As the football team manager, Phillips had to: correspond with team managers at other universities to arrange a schedule and agree upon a share of gate receipts or guarantees (a monetary guarantee was crucial for the visiting team to afford its travel costs), purchase train tickets and make ho...