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15 unusual facts about Texas Tech University


Ben Habern

Habern was heavily recruited starting early in his junior year across the country receiving scholarships from Oklahoma, Arizona, Florida State, Miami (FL), Nebraska, Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M, and Texas Tech).

Charles Collins Thompson

Charles Thompson was appointed by Texas Governor James B. Allred in 1937, to serve on the board of directors of Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University).

Crooked Zebra

Bob Knight, former head basketball coach at Texas Tech University and Indiana University, calls Crooked Zebra “Entertaining, exciting and an easy read.

Deena Katz

She also serves as an Associate Professor in the Personal Financial Planning Division at Texas Tech University.

Dennis Covington

In 2003, he became Professor of Creative Writing at Texas Tech University.

Denton Fox

He moved on to play college football at Texas Tech University, where his combination of size and speed was not common at the time for a cornerback.

Đặng Thùy Trâm

In March 2005, he and his brother Robert (also a Vietnam War veteran) brought the diaries to a conference on the Vietnam War at Texas Tech University.

Ed Robnett

He played college football at Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University) and Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University) and was drafted in the eighteenth round of the 1946 NFL Draft by the Washington Redskins.

M. Cecil Mackey

Cecil Mackey (born January 23, 1929) was the president of University of South Florida from 1971 to 1976, Texas Tech University from 1976 to 1979, and Michigan State University from 1979 to 1985.

Mason Crosby

Mason's father, Jim, was a running back in college for the UTEP Miners and graduated from Texas Tech.

NCAA Award of Valor

2001 - Rob Best (1972 graduate of Texas Tech University), Shawn Elliot (1996 graduate of Appalachian State University) and Stacey Searels (graduate of Auburn University), all members of the Appalachian State University football coaching staff, saved a number of people from a fiery crash.

Reid Gettys

Gettys played his high school ball at Houston's Memorial High School, but chose to stay home to attend college and play for the legendary Guy V. Lewis, rather than following in his father, Marshall's footsteps in attending and playing for Texas Tech University.

Steven Sheffield

Sheffield graduated from Texas Tech University with a Bachelor's Degree in Communication Studies.

Texas Tech Sports Network

It is operated by Red Raider Sports Properties, a property of Learfield Communications, Inc., which manages the multimedia rights for Texas Tech University.

United States administrative law

The Texas Tech Administrative Law Journal specializes in administrative law topics.


1970 Lubbock tornado

At about 9:35PM, a second and much more significant tornado touched down near the campus of Texas Tech University, snapping light poles at Jones Stadium, home of the Red Raider football team, then began to track northeast, carving a path of destruction that at its peak reached almost two miles in width right through the heart of the city.

Bake Turner

He played collegiately at Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University), then professionally for nine seasons.

Bill G. Chapman

In 1973, then legally blind, Chapman procured his Ed.D. from Texas Tech University in Lubbock in the fields of "Rehabilitation Administration" and "Rehabilitation Counseling".

Bob Kilcullen

Kilcullen played at Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University) in college.

Charlie Baird

In February 2009, Baird presided over hearings related to the case of Tim Cole, a Texas Tech University student convicted of raping a fellow student in 1985.

E. J. Holub

In college, he played for Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University).

Ed Mooney

In college, Mooney played for Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University).

George W. Littlefield

Works on Littlefield include David B. Gracy, II, George Washington Littlefield: A Biography in Business (Ph.D. dissertation; Texas Tech University, 1971) and J. Evetts Haley's George W. Littlefield, Texan (1943; through the University of Oklahoma Press in Norman, Oklahoma).

Herbert Southworth

At Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University) in Lubbock, Texas, he majored in history, with a minor in Spanish.

Herschel Ramsey

Ramsey was the first football player drafted from Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University) in the 1938 NFL Draft.

Joseph Morton Ransdell

Joseph Morton Ransdell (1931–2010) was an associate professor of philosophy from 1974 to 2000 at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.

K-Bob's Steakhouse

A graduate in accounting from The University of Texas at Austin and in law from Texas Tech University, Tinsley, an attorney, has ranching, petroleum and natural gas interests in Lincoln County, New Mexico.

King Pu-tsung

King earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from Taiwan's National Chengchi University, then studied abroad to earn a master's degree in mass communications from Texas Tech University and a Ph.D. in journalism from the University of Texas, Austin in United States.

Motion offense

Knight used the motion offense to great success for over 40 years as the head coach of the United States Military Academy, Indiana University, and Texas Tech University, recording 902 total victories.

Murray Foreland

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Grover E. Murray, American geologist, member of the Board of Directors, National Science Foundation (1964-), president of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas (1966–76).

Paducah, Texas

Tom Abraham, a business and civic figure and philanthropist in Canadian, Texas, first worked in Paducah upon his graduation from Texas Tech University in 1932.

Paul Nolen

Nolen attended Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University).

Peter Agre

Agre defended Thomas C. Butler, a plague researcher from Texas Tech University who voluntarily reported to the university safety office that 30 vials of plague bacteria were missing and had probably been autoclaved.

Peter Hurd

From 1953 to 1954, Hurd, assisted by his protégés Manuel Acosta and John Meigs as well as his wife Henriette, painted a fresco mural in the rotunda of what was then the West Texas Museum (now Holden Hall) at Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University) in Lubbock.

Red Raider Rampart

Named by the Texas Tech Shackleton Glacier Expedition (1964–65) for the student body of Texas Tech University (then known as Texas Technological College), whose athletic teams are known as the Red Raiders.

Staunton Military Academy

W. Duke Myers (1960) Centennial First Captain and first cadet full colonel at Staunton Military Academy; Lt. Colonel, United States Army; Nephrologist; Fellow of American College of Physicians (FACP), Fellow of American Society of Nephrology (FASN), Founding member of the Texas Chapter of American Society of Hypertension; Voted outstanding Clinical Professor of Medicine at Texas Tech University

Terry Boose

Boose earned a bachelor’s degree in business management from Bowling Green State University and a master’s degree in business administration from Texas Tech University, and subsequently served as the fiscal officer for Norwalk Township in Huron County.

Texas Tech University School of Music

Texas Tech University School of Music is a school within the College of Visual & Performing Arts at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.

Wade Bowen

Bowen is a graduate of Texas Tech University where he was a member of the Epsilon Nu chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity.

Walt Schlinkman

In 1945, the Green Bay Packers used the 11th pick in the 1st round of the 1945 NFL Draft to sign Schlinkman out of Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University).

Women in the Air Force

Major General Wendy M. Masiello, a 1980 graduate of Texas Tech University, is an example of high-ranking woman officer who was commissioned via Air Force ROTC.