By Bartee Haile

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he University of Texas lived up to its lofty billing as the best college team in the land on Nov. 2, 1941 by crushing SMU 34-0 for the sixth straight victory of the season.

Dana X. Bible’s Longhorns looked invincible even to near-sighted sportswriters back east, who always tried to ignore the superior brand of football played in the Southwest Conference.  But after Texas blew out Colorado, LSU, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Rice by a combined score of 196-27, th...