Long Live the Matadors

In 1923, Texas Tech’s purpose was to bring the highest quality teaching to the horizons of West Texas. Now as the state’s next premier research institution, we are shaping the world. Take a tour through Texas Tech history with us!

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Happy National World Kindness Day! Take time out of your day to spread a little kindness around campus.

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Happy Halloween, Red Raiders! May your Halloween be filled with more treats than tricks! Take a look back at Raider Red serving more treats to the local children of Lubbock.

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With basketball season approaching, both #TexasTech men’s and women’s programs enter their 43rd and 93rd season, respectively. The women’s team has garnered one national championship under former head coach Marsha Sharp.

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One thing is always the same, excitement for Friday! This Saddle Tramp can't help but show his excitement at a #TexasTech football game. 

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Homecoming Clowns

Two students from Monterey High School painted Double T logos on their faces before marching with the Lubbock Ronald McDonald House in the 1991 homecoming parade.

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Name Change

Several students participated in the rallies on campus from May 4-6 in 1967. The issue at hand was whether to change the name of Texas Technological College to Texas State University or Texas Tech University.

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B.B. King in Lubbock

In 1976, “King of the Blues” B.B. King stopped in Lubbock for a performance. With his guitar, Lucille, at hand he entertained the audience with tickets at only $6.50. 

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Beef Cattle Production Class

This photo is of the last Beef Cattle Production class that Dean W. L. Stangel taught in December 1953. The students are lined up by the cows on the sides and Stangel is standing in the center aisle. Stangel was the head of the Animal Husbandry department and then the Dean of the College of Agriculture.

Cattle feeding experiments at Texas Technological College began in 1933, with 40 cows. Now Texas Tech University has the Burnett Center for Beef Cattle Research and Instruction, which is located north of Lubbock, and has flexible feedlot design and state-of-the-art technology.

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Turkish Oral Narrative

Barbara Walker and her husband Warren, the first Horn Professor of English, spent the 1961-1962 academic year traveling through the Turkish Republic with Dr. Ahmet Edip Uysal. 

Barbara began audio-taping narratives which were later published and added to the Uysal-Walker Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative at Texas Tech. 

Here she is pictured talking with a class of fourth graders in Lubbock.

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309th College Training Detachment

This portrait shows pre-flight instructor pilots (in dark uniforms) posing with one of the sections of Texas Tech’s pre-flight program in 1944.

These student pilots were already in the U.S. Army Air Forces but were sent to Texas Tech to see if they could qualify to become pilots.

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Texas Tech Basketball

In 1927, Texas Tech had just begun its Red Raider Basketball team two years prior. Grady Higginbotham was the head coach. Wreck ’Em Tech! 

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Red Raiders’ Radio

KTXT 88.1 FM is the student-run radio station licensed to Texas Tech University. In February 1999, KTXT became the first Lubbock FM station to broadcast on the internet, via a live audio feed. Pictured here are three radio staff members: Telea Johnson, Jason Wright, and Cory Powell.

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The Band Wagon

Two students pose by the Texas Tech Band Wagon on the Texas Technological College campus in September 1963.

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1926 Texas Tech Volleyball

Check out the 1926 Lady Raider Volleyball team! 

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Tech Dairy Industry Conference

This photo shows four attendees at the Tech Dairy Industry Conference in November 1963. 

From left to right: D. H. Ellis, State Department of Health; Ellis Wurzbach, Foremost Dairies of Fort Worth; Dr. D. H. Jacobsen, American Dairy Association, and N. J. Nelson.

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Concrete Double T

Texas Tech Athletic Director Polk Robinson thanked two Alpha Phi Omega officers on October 5, 1961, for the work their organization did in installing the Double T fixture on the north sloping edge of the Jones stadium.