During the offseason of 1932, Jefferson hired Nick Dobbs from local Highland Park High School as its new head coach.
[1][2][3] In its third season of intercollegiate football, Jefferson compiled an 8–0 record, including a stunning victory over Oklahoma A&M, 12–6, at the Fair Park Stadium in Dallas.
Coaches from other schools were suspicious of the sudden transformation of the Jefferson team from one that just two years earlier had lost to a private boys prep school, but now had beaten Oklahoma A&M, as well as other strong, smaller-college teams such as Oklahoma City and Phillips.
Texas and SMU cancelled games for their freshmen teams against Jefferson, and other schools chose to avoid playing them because of concerns that the Rangers were a semi-pro team, and since Jefferson did not belong to a conference, there was no institutional oversight to ensure the eligibility of players.
In early December 1932, Andrew Priest, the founder and president of Jefferson declared that the team was being ejected from the university for the eligibility issues and the failure of most of the players to attend classes.