1935 TCU Horned Frogs football team
| 1935 TCU Horned Frogs football | |
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National champion (Williamson) Sugar Bowl champion | |
Sugar Bowl, W 3–2 vs. LSU | |
| Conference | Southwestern Conference |
| Record | 12–1 (5–1 SWC) |
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| Home stadium | Amon G. Carter Stadium (Capacity: 22,000) |
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| No. 2 SMU $ | 6 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 12 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 4 TCU | 5 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 12 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Baylor | 3 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rice | 3 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Arkansas | 2 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Texas A&M | 1 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Texas | 1 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1935 TCU Horned Frogs football team represented Texas Christian University (TCU) in the 1935 college football season. One of the 13 selectors recognized as official by the NCAA (Williamson) recognize the 1935 TCU team as the co-national champion.[1]
TCU was led by second-year head coach Dutch Meyer. TCU and SMU again met to decide not only the SWC title but the first trip to the Rose Bowl for a team from the SWC. Grantland Rice of the New York Sun called it the "Game of the Century" and reported the following:
In a TCU Stadium that seated 30,000 spectators, over 36,000 wildly excited Texans and visitors from every corner of the map packed, jammed, and fought their way into every square foot of standing and seating space to see one of the greatest football games ever played…this tense, keyed up crowd even leaped the wire fences from the top of automobiles…"[2]
SMU scored the first 14 points of the game. TCU, led by All-American quarterback Sammy Baugh, tied the game at the beginning of the fourth quarter. Then, with seven minutes left in the game SMU, on a 4th and 4 on the Frogs' 37 yard-line, lined up to punt. Quarterback Bob Finley threw a 50-yard pass to running back Bob Wilson who made what is described as a "jumping, twisting catch that swept him over the line for the touchdown."[2] TCU would lose the game 20–14, but would be invited to play the LSU Tigers in the 1936 Sugar Bowl, where the Frogs would be victorious 3–2 at messy and muddy Tulane Stadium.[3]
Even with the loss to SMU, who later lost to Stanford in the 1936 Rose Bowl, TCU is recognized as National Co-Champions of the 1935 College Football season.,[4] along with Louisiana State University, Southern Methodist University[5][6] and the University of Minnesota.[7] (The National Championship was unified in the AP Poll in 1938).
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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| September 21 | at Howard Payne* | Brownwood, TX | W 41–0 | ||
| September 28 | North Texas State Teachers* | W 28–11 | 5,000 | [8] | |
| October 5 | at Arkansas |
| W 13–7 | ||
| October 12 | at Tulsa* | W 13–0 | 9,000 | ||
| October 19 | Texas A&M |
| W 19–14 | ||
| October 26 | at Centenary* | W 27–7 | 8,000 | [9] | |
| November 2 | at Baylor | W 28–0 | |||
| November 8 | at Loyola (LA)* | W 14–0 | 6,000 | [10] | |
| November 16 | at Texas | W 28–0 | |||
| November 23 | Rice |
| W 27–6 | ||
| November 30 | SMU |
| L 14–20 | 36,000 | [11] |
| December 7 | at Santa Clara* | W 10–6 | 25,000 | [12] | |
| January 1, 1936 | vs. LSU* |
| W 3–2 | 35,000 | |
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References
- ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). "National Poll Champions" (PDF). 2011 NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA.org. p. 73. Retrieved April 3, 2012.
- ^ a b Jenkins, Dan; Fitzgerald, Francis J., eds. (1996). Greatest Moments in TCU football. AdCraft Sports Marketing. p. 55. ISBN 1-887761-04-7.
- ^ "1936 Game Recap".
- ^ Recognized under the Williamson system
- ^ Dickinson and Houlgate systems
- ^ Williamson system
- ^ Boand, Litkenhous and Poling systems
- ^ "Surprised Frons beat Eagles 28 to 11". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. September 29, 1935. Retrieved November 7, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Frogs run over Gentlemen, 27 to 7". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. October 27, 1935. Retrieved July 25, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Frogs given big scare in battle against Wolves". The Shreveport Times. November 9, 1935. p. 20. Retrieved March 5, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Flem R. Hall (December 1, 1935). "S.M.U. Takes Thrilling Game From T.C.U. 20-14: 36,000 Jam Stadium To See Classic". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. p. Main 1, Sports 1 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Harry Borba (December 8, 1935). "Horned Frogs Shade Game Broncos, 10-6: Sam Baugh's 'Pitching' Feature; T.C.U. Pressured". The San Francisco Examiner. p. 25 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "1935 Texas Christian Horned Frogs". College Football at Sports-Reference.com.
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