Magazines - Houston Cougar Football History

Morning Coogs,

Here are some links to some great magazines of yesteryear. (Reorgainzed by alphabetical magazine)

Missing a Preview from years:
1946 - 1950, 1952-1953, 1955 - 1960, 1962, 1964 - 1966, 2008, 2010 - 2014, 2017, 2022

Athlon’s College Football Preview

Coach and Athlete (& “Southern Coach and Athlete”) - All sports - Let’s be honest, there are so many of these that I tried to give a small preview of what is inside. This magazine is the best source for Pre-1960s coverage of UH sports, in general.

  • 1947 Feb
  • 1947 May - Lone Star Conference Basketball champs
  • 1948 Feb
  • 1948 May - Brown gets second team for All-conference basketball team selection
  • 1948 June - Track and Tennis winners
  • 1949 Apr - Formation of the Gulf Coast Conference
  • 1949 Sep - Harry Fouke Issue
  • 1949 Oct - “Southern Co-Ed” Winner, Dolores Becker, UH student
  • 1950 May - GCC Basketball champs
  • 1950 June - GCC Baseball champs
  • 1950 Sep - Houston joins the Missouri Valley Conference
  • 1951 Sep - Dr. William Rhodes talks about UH’s Football Classification Index
  • 1952 Feb - UH wins the Salad Bowl
  • 1953 Mar - 1952 MVC Champs
  • 1954 Mar
  • 1954 Dec - Dr. Rhodes, at it again
  • 1956 Mar - Special Basketball Cover with Coach Alden Pasche and Don Boldebuck
  • 1956 Apr - SMU goes to NCAA playoff quarterfinals; UH accolade
  • 1956 May - UH wins MVC Basketball Championship, Pasche wins Coach of the Year
  • 1956 Jun - UH Sixth straight track conference championship
  • 1956 Oct - UH grad becomes HISD head trainer; Guy Lewis is new Head Coach
  • 1957 Jan - UH Coach Bill Meek goes to SMU
  • 1957 Feb - OU’s Bud Wilkinson offered a lot to come to UH; NCAA Golf champs
  • 1957 Mar - UH’s Golf team is loaded
  • 1958 Aug - UH MVC football preview
  • 1958 Jan - Phil Hansel - UH women’s swimming coach
  • 1958 Mar - Golf, golf, golf
  • 1958 May - Baseball
  • 1958 Jun - Golf and Coach DG Williams; UH wins the MVC Arthur E Eilers Memorial Trophy for all sport supremacy
  • 1958 Aug - Football preview
  • 1959 Jun - DG Williams and how he coachs Golf
  • 1960 Mar - Coach Williams, again; Houston leaves MVC - Coach Bryant endorsed UH as an SEC member; Basketball too
  • 1960 Jun - UH in NAIA (?); John Walter Morriss - UH Track Coach and world record holder for 120-yard hurdles
  • 1961 Oct - Zane Chastain - UH Alum writes the Prep Sportlight

There’s even more, but I’ll have to find a way to host it!

College Sports

Conley’s Football Guide

Don Heinrich’s College Football

Football Digest

Game Plan College Football

Inside Sports

Jim Feist’s College Football

Lindy’s Southwest Football

NCAA Official Collegiate Guide

Popular Sports

Sports Eye

Sports Illustrated

Sport Magazine

The Sporting News

Sports Quarterly’s College Football

Street & Smith

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Should this be reorganized again? Lemme know.

  • It’s fine, as is
  • Reorg - years first, then pub
  • Just find the remaining years

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