1930 Season - Results: 0-7-2
| Coach: | Archie French | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Opponent | Op Score | HJC/UH Score | W/L/T | Location | Time | Day of Week |
| 10/4/1930 | Baylor University Freshmen - Cubs | 50 | 0 | L | Waco, Texas | Saturday | |
| 10/11/1930 | St. Mary’s University - Saints | 0 | 0 | T | West End Park - Houston, Texas | 3:00 PM | Saturday |
| 10/18/1930 | Temple Junior College - Leopards | 0 | 0 | T | San Jacinto High School Field - Houston, TX | 3:00 PM | Saturday |
| 10/25/1930 | Sam Houston State Teachers College Reserves - Bearkats | 25 | 0 | L | Huntsville, Texas | Saturday | |
| 11/1/1930 | Sam Houston State Teachers College Reserves - Bearkats | 13 | 0 | L | San Jacinto High School Field - Houston, TX | 3:00 PM | Saturday |
| 11/7/1930 | Victoria Junior College - Pirates | 25 | 0 | L | San Jacinto High School Field - Houston, TX | 3:00 PM | Friday |
| 11/11/1930 | Allen Military Academy - Cadets | 67 | 0 | L | Forrest Field (Bryan, Texas) | Tuesday | |
| 11/15/1930 | Lutheran Junior College - Bulldogs | 13 | 0 | L | West End Park - Houston, Texas | 3:00 PM | Saturday |
| 11/21/1930 | Blinn Memorial College - Bulldogs | 38 | 6 | L | Brenham, Texas | Friday |
Notes:
- Coach Captain Archie W. French, the first HJC athletic director and athletics coach, was announced on September 3, 1930. A World War I hero and retired Captain in the US Marine Corps (1917). Coach French was a College of Idaho football player who graduated in 1929 from Pacific University (Oregon) and earned his Post-grad Diploma at Columbia University in “Supervisor of Physical Education” studies, in 1930. Prior to joining HJC, Coach French had a ten-year coaching career, including as a “line coach” at Pacific University in 1926. The Cougar claims that Pacific won their Pacific Northwest Conference championship in 1926, but it was College of Idaho that won.
- Temple Junior College was renamed Temple College in 1996. TJC had a similar founding to HJC, in their local High School: Temple High School. TJC moved out into its own campus in 1957.
- Allen Military Academy is claimed to be the oldest private school (K-12) in the state of Texas, founded in 1886 near Texas A&M University. It is known primarily as “Allen Academy” and in 1927 began offering Junior College courses to prepare students for University. It added a full Junior College division in 1947 which was taken over by Blinn College in 1968.
- Lutheran Junior College gained status as a JC in 1928 and gained a senior four-year institution status in 1948. TJC later evolved into Texas Lutheran University.
End of the Houston Junior College Era of Interscholastic Football: 9-19-5
In the end of the 1930-1931 school year, after initially planning the 1931 football season, Houston Junior College banned interscholastic sports with a compromise for a commitment to intramural sports built around “football, basketball, playground ball, speedball, and soccer” under Coach French. The decision was made by Assistant Dean N.K. Dupre, after attending a meeting with the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools (“SACSS” later known as SACS) for accreditation purposes. The outcome of this meeting stated that in order for HJC to gain accreditation, HJC would have to join a Texas Athletic Conference (at this time, Texas Junior College Athletic Association was active), but the leagues required students taking 4 courses, per semester, and passing 3 of them.
It was decided that HJC could not gain membership from the athletic conferences because school was conducted at night and the schedule did not allow athletes sufficient time to enable them to carry the required number of courses and maintain athletic competitiveness. From what I’ve found, this ban was initially communicated (in the Cougar) as only a ban on interscholastic football.
September 1930 HJC Cougar Lineup Photo
Colorized and up-scaled photo
You can see that their uniforms are either white with blue numbers or royal blue.
Edits
10/11/2022 - Addition of colorized team photo