1973 Houston Cougars football team , also known as the Houston Cougars , Houston , or UH , represented the University of Houston in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season . It was the 28th year of season play for Houston . The team was coached by twelfth-year head coach Bill Yeoman who would later be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2001 . The team played its home games in the Astrodome , a 50,000-person capacity stadium off-campus in Houston at the Astrodomain . Houston competed as a member of the NCAA in the University Division , independent of any athletic conference . It was their fourteenth year of doing so . The Cougars had been admitted to the Southwest Conference two years prior , but were ineligible for conference play until the 1976 season . After completion of the regular season , the Cougars were invited to the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl where they defeated the Tulane Green Wave
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1973 Houston Cougars football team