Top 5 Seasons in Texas Tech History: No. 5, 1938

Welcome to a new mini-series from Viva the Matadors! Today and the next four Fridays will be committed to counting down the top 5 season in Texas Tech’s long football history! Let’se start with the second 10-win team in school history, the 1938-1939 Texas Tech Red Raiders!

It might be interesting to point out that 1938 was only the second season that the team was named the Red Raiders as in the team’s first 11 years in existence they were known as the Matadors. The Head Coach of the team was none other than Pete Cawthon. Cawthon was the Head Coach at Texas Tech from 1931-1940, where he was also the athletic director during that same time. He had many successful years in Lubbock, as he ended…