San Antonio Texans

San Antonio Texans
League	Canadian Football League
Division	South Division
Founded	1995
Folded	1995
Home field	Alamodome
Based in	San Antonio, Texas
Colours	Old Gold, Teal and Burgundy
Owner(s)	Fred Anderson
Head Coach	Kay Stephenson

The San Antonio Texans were a Canadian football team that played in the Alamodome for the 1995 CFL season. They had relocated from Sacramento, California, where the team had been called the Sacramento Gold Miners. The team still had the same ownership in Fred Anderson and the same staff like GM, Dan Bass and Head Coach, Kay Stephenson.

Ironically in the 1993 season, there was supposed to be two U.S. teams in the CFL with Sacramento and San Antonio, however, the original San Antonio franchise would fold when their owner, Larry Benson ran out of money and was forced to withdraw before playing a down.

Brief Franchise History

On The Field

In their third season in the CFL and their first as the Texans, the team had the second-highest scoring offense in the league, which was led by veteran quarterback David Archer. The franchise would finish the 1995 CFL season with a 12-6 record, finishing in second place of the South Division, which qualified them to their first playoff berth. In the playoffs, the San Antonio Texans soundly defeated the Birmingham Barracudas, 52-9, in the Southern Semi-Finals at the Alamodome. However, their playoff run would end after falling to the eventual champion, Baltimore Stallions in the Southern Finals by a score of 21-11, which eventually ended the last season of the franchise.

Off The Field

The San Antonio Texans had respectable attendance with the average being 15,855. In one of their games at the Alamodome, attendance reached to 22,043, in a 38-32 loss to the Stampeders.

However, at the end of the '95 season, the CFL decided to fold the Birmingham Barracudas, the Memphis Mad Dogs and the Shreveport Pirates. In addition, when it was announced that Art Modell would move the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore, Stallions owner Jim Speros knew his franchise would not survive the NFL and moved the team to Montreal.

In The End

With all this going on, it looked like Fred Anderson's franchise would be the only U.S.-based team in the CFL, again. However, Anderson did not want to go that path and decided to fold the San Antonio Texans after the '95 season, which ended the CFL's attempt to expand to the United States.

Malcolm Frank is the only remaining player from the team currently playing in the Canadian Football League with the Edmonton Eskimos.

Players and Builders of note

Retired

Still Playing in the CFL

Malcolm Frank

External links

Canadian football in the United States | Defunct Canadian football teams | Sports in San Antonio

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