1936 Texas Mines Miners football team

1936 Texas Mines Miners football
ConferenceBorder Conference
Record5–3–1 (2–1–1 Border)
Head coach
1936 Border Conference football standings
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Arizona $ 3 0 05 2 3
Texas Mines 2 1 15 3 1
New Mexico A&M 3 2 06 4 1
Arizona State 2 3 04 5 0
Arizona State–Flagstaff 1 2 13 4 1
New Mexico 1 4 02 7 0
Texas Tech 0 0 05 4 1
  • $ Conference champion
  • Arizona State and Arizona State–Flagstaff played twice, but only the first meeting counted in the conference standings. The game between Arizona and Texas Tech also did not count in the conference standings.

The 1936 Texas Mines Miners football team was an American football team that represented Texas School of Mines (now known as University of Texas at El Paso) as a member of the Border Conference during the 1936 college football season. In its eighth season under head coach Mack Saxon, the team compiled a 5–3–1 record (2–1–1 against Border Conference opponents), finished second in the conference, lost to Hardin–Simmons in the first Sun Bowl game, and outscored all opponents by a total of 92 to 86.