Dixie University was a short-lived college in downtown Dallas, Texas that was chartered in 1933 by the Somerville Law School partly to expand into a liberal arts college,[1] and partly to create a home for the displaced 1932 Jefferson Rangers football team to relocate.
In the fall of 1933 Dixie University opened with 400 students in the law school and the brand-new undergraduate colleges.
However, by the spring of 1935 Dixie had failed and the liberal arts college shut its doors without notice.
[2][3] Dixie was not destined to be a success and as quickly as things started, the college soon foundered.
The imported 1934 Dixie Rebels women's basketball team had played the previous years as the well-known Dallas Golden Cyclones, counting Babe Zaharias as one of its former players.