 The 1919 team, known as "Mauley's Iron Men", was considered by many experts to be the finest football squad in the southwest that season.After defeating the Oklahoma and Texas football teams, the "Haymakers" gained a reputation as “one of the strongest teams in the southwest.” When Phillips defeated Texas, 10–0, in Austin, Texas in October 1919, the Longhorns had not lost a game since 1917.One Texas newspaper reported that Phillips had "whitewashed the Longhorns in their own corral."