Historic Football Records

U.S.S. Texas

U.S.S. Texas
(The flagship of the Coast Squadron, 1902-1905)

1903
10/24  L  0-17     1^st Battalion, New York State Naval Militia

1904
11/    W           Governor's Island

History:
	•First United States battleship, built at Norfolk, commissioned 8/15/1895.
	•Part of the Flying Squadron during Spanish-American War
	•Took part in bombardment of fortress at Cayo del Tore, Guantanamo Bay & in the Battle of Santiago, 1898.
	•Flagship of the (East) Coast Squadron, 1902-1905
	•Used as Station Ship (Receiving Ship) at Charlestown from 1908.
	•Renamed U.S.S. San Marcos February 1911 so the new U.S.S. Texas could be so named.
	•Sunk as a target in Tangier Sound in Chesapeake Bay end of 1911

U.S.S. Texas (BB-35)
(At Brooklyn Navy Yard for repairs after running aground on Block Island, Aug. to Dec. 1917)

1914
.      L  0-27     Fordham

1915
.      L  7-28     Fordham
.      L  7-31     Fordham

1916
11/9   L           U.S.S. Arkansas  11/2?
10/12  L  0-27     Fordham  0-22?

1917
10/12  W 18-0      Hillcrest Club, at Prospect Park Parade Grounds
.      L  0-20     Fordham
11/6   W 54-0      Aqueduct FBC of Queens, at Central Park
.      W 21-7      Fort Hamilton
.      W 11-0      General Electric
11/25  L  0-45  at Stapleton FC

1918
.      L  0-24     Fordham
.      L  7-31     Fordham

History:
	•Last Coal-fired U.S. battleship, built at Newport News, launched 1912, commissioned 1914, designated BB-35 in 1920.
	•Joined the Special Service Squadron off Mexico following the “Vera Cruz Incident”.
	•First U.S. battleship to mount anti-aircraft guns.
	•Convoy and blockade duty during the First World War out of Scapa Flow and the Firth of Forth.
	•First ship to launch airplane (off a turret platform), 1919. Accompanied the first trans-Atlantic flight by the seaplane NC-4.
	•Flagship of the U.S. Navy, 1927-31.
	•First ship installed with commercial radar, 1939
	•Designated flagship of the Atlantic Fleet 1940.
	•In Second World War only battleship to see action in Africa, Europe and Asia.
	•Provided gunfire support for the amphibious assault on Morocco, putting war correspondent Walter Cronkite ashore, 1942.
	•Decommissioned December 1948 becoming the first Battleship Memorial Museum located at San Jocinto State Historical Park in La Porte, Texas.
	•National Historic Landmark, its reciprocating marine steam engines are National Historic Engineering Landmarks.