Team: Texas Tech Red Raiders
Stadium: Jones SBC Stadium
Conference: Big 12
Sport: College Football
Background: Texas Tech University is a Tier
I research university located in Lubbock, Texas. Formed in
1923 as Texas Technological College, the first classes opened
in 1925 with 914 students. A 1921 bill creating an institution
of higher education in West Texas had been vetoed, leading
newspapers from Ft. Worth to El Paso to call for the secession
of West Texas. In a controversial move, the name was changed
to Texas Tech University in 1969. Although most Techsans were
in agreement that the expanded educational opportunities in
the arts and sciences made the school more than just a technological
institution, students and faculty supported changing the school's
name to Texas State University while alumni and the Board
of Directors favored Texas Tech, in part to retain the familiar
Double T. After increasingly acrimonious debate (one student
even suggested "The University of Moscow at Lubbock"
out of frustration at the Board's refusal to listen to student
preference), the Texas Legislature formally changed the school's
name in 1969. A 1964 bill to change the name was defeated
primarily because it would have made Tech a part of the Texas
A&M system. Texas Tech enrolls approximately 25,000 students
in its ten academic colleges and an additional 2,000 in its
School of Law and Health Sciences Center. Consisting of Schools
of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Allied Health, and with
campuses in Lubbock, Amarillo, El Paso, and Odessa, the Health
Sciences Center has an 108 county service area that is larger
than all but 4 states.
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Texas Tech is a member of the Big Twelve Conference and competes
in Division I-A for athletics. Athletic teams are known as
the Red Raiders or Lady Raiders, and Texas Tech is home to
the 1993 NCAA Women's Basketball champions. Tech has two mascots,
a Yosemite Sam-like character, Raider Red, designed by former
Lubbock mayor and cartoonist, Dirk West, and the Masked Rider,
mounted on a black horse, whose first appearance at the 1954
Gator Bowl sparked Tech to an upset of heavily favored Auburn.
In 1999, the "Goin' Band from Raiderland," a 400+
member marching band which was the first to travel extensively
in support of its football team and the first college band
to have its half-time performance broadcast over the radio,
was awarded the Sudler Trophy. Known as the "Heisman
Trophy" of marching bands, this is the highest honor
a collegiate marching band can receive.
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