National champion (four official selectors) SWC champion
Rose Bowl, L 0–7 vs. Stanford
Conference
Southwest Conference
Record
12–1 (6–0 SWC)
Head coach
Matty Bell (1st season)
Captain
Harry Shuford, Marco Stewart, J. C. Wetsel
Home stadium
Ownby Stadium
Seasons
← 1934
1936 →
1935 Southwest Conference football standings
v
t
e
Conf
Overall
Team
W
L
T
W
L
T
No. 2 SMU $
6
–
0
–
0
12
–
1
–
0
No. 4 TCU
5
–
1
–
0
12
–
1
–
0
Baylor
3
–
3
–
0
8
–
3
–
0
Rice
3
–
3
–
0
8
–
3
–
0
Arkansas
2
–
4
–
0
5
–
5
–
0
Texas A&M
1
–
5
–
0
3
–
7
–
0
Texas
1
–
5
–
0
4
–
6
–
0
$ – Conference champion
Rankings from United Press
The 1935 SMU Mustangs football team was an American football team that represented Southern Methodist University (SMU) in the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1935 college football season. In their first season under head coach Matty Bell, the Mustangs posted an overall record of 12–1 record with a mark of 6–0 in conference play, winning the SWC title. SMU was invited to the Rose Bowl, where they lost to Stanford. The Mustangs shut out eight of thirteen opponents and outscored all opponents by a total of 288 to 39 on the season.[1]
SMU was named as the national champion in 1935 by the Dickinson System and Houlgate System, and retroactively by Berryman and Sagarin, and was one of five teams chosen by selectors recognized as official by the NCAA.[2]
Two SMU players, halfback Bob Wilson and guard J. C. Wetsel, were selected as a consensus first-team player on the 1935 All-America college football team.[3] In addition, tackle Truman Spain was selected as a first-team All-American by Collier's Weekly and as a second-team All-American by the Associated Press.[4][5]
^"1935 SMU Mustangs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 1, 2022.
^2020 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records(PDF). Indianapolis: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. July 2020. pp. 112–114. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 1, 2020. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
^"Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 7. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
^"Inwood Smith Selected For Collier's 'American: Ohio State Guard One of Three Middlewestern Players Honored; Year Termed 'Greatest'". Circleville Herald. December 12, 1935.
^Alan Gould (December 7, 1935). "Lutz, Grayson Only Coast Stars On A.P. All-American: Four Southern Aces Given Laurels". Oakland Tribune.
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