TCU Horned Frogs

TCU Horned Frogs
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University	Texas Christian University
Conference	Mountain West
Division	Division I
Athletic director	Dr. Daniel Morrison
Location	Fort Worth, Texas
Varsity teams	18
Football stadium	Amon G. Carter Stadium
Arena	Daniel-Meyer Coliseum
Mascot	Super Frog
Nickname	Horned Frogs
Colors	Purple and White
Website	www.gofrogs.com

Texas Christian University features 18 varsity sports teams. The school's mascot is the Horned Frog and it's women's athletics teams are referred to often as the Lady Frogs. They participate in the NCAA's Division I and in the Div I-Bowl Sub-Division for football competing in the Mountain West Conference. The University's current athletic director is Dr. Daniel Morrison.

Varsity sports

Texas Christian University began its athletic life as an independent program with a six year (1914-1920) stint in the Texas Intercolligiate Athletic Association interjected before eventually joining it's long time home, the Southwest Athletic Conference (SWC), in 1923. TCU remained a member of the SWC until it disbanded after the 1994-1995 academic year due to Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech and Baylor defecting to the Big 8 Conference to form the Big 12 Conference. An earlier defection in 1992 by Arkansas to the Southeastern Conference also helped destroy the former SWC. The Horned Frogs no longer having a conference to call home after 72 years, joined the Western Athletic Conference (WAC), along with SMU and Rice. TCU called the WAC home from 1996 through 2000. In 2001, TCU joined Conference USA (CUSA) and remained there through 2004. TCU joined its current home of the Mountain West Conference (MWC) in 2005.

Football

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Amon G. Carter Stadium (Authorized picture needed)

National Titles: 1935 and 1938 [1]
Conference Championships: 14

• TIAA - 1920
  
• SWC - 1929, 1932, 1938, 1944, 1951, 1955, 1958, 1959, 1994
  
• WAC - 1999, 2000
  
• CUSA - 2002
  
• MWC - 2005
  

AP 1st-Team All-Americans:

Year	Position	Number	Name	Hometown
1927	E	#31	Rags Matthews	Fort Worth
1929	G	#44	Mike Brumbelow	Jacksboro
1930	HB	#5	Cy Leland	Lubbock
1932	G	#44	Johnny Vaught	Fort Worth
1934	C	#22	Darrell Lester	Jacksboro
1935	C	#22	Darrell Lester	Jacksboro
	QB	#45	Sammy Baugh	Sweetwater
1936	QB	#45	Sammy Baugh	Sweetwater
1937	QB	#8	Davey O'Brien	Dallas
	T	#22	I.B. Hale	Dallas
	C	#48	Ki Aldrich	Temple
1938	QB	#8	Davey O'Brien	Dallas
	T	#22	I.B. Hale	Dallas
	C	#48	Ki Aldrich	Temple
1942	T	#71	Derrell Palmer	Albany
1944	T	#32	Clyde Flowers	Perryton
1949	QB	#43	Lindy Berry	Wichita Falls
1951	C	#34	Keith Flowers	Perryton
	QB	#49	Ray McKown	Dumas
	T	#77	Doug Conaway	Hillsboro
1955	HB	#23	Jim Swink	Rusk
	C	#54	Hugh Pitts	Woodville
1956	T	#75	Norman Hamilton	Vanderbilt
	HB	#23	Jim Swink	Rusk
1958	T	#75	Don Floyd	Midlothian
1959	T	#75	Don Floyd	Midlothian
	FB	#20	Jack Spikes	Snyder
1960	T	#72	Bob Lilly	Throckmorton
1963	FB	#38	Tommy Crutcher	McKinney
1981	SE	#7	Stanley Washington	Dallas
1984	RB	#36	Kenneth Davis	Temple
1991	TE	#86	Kelly Blackwell	Richland Hills
1995	PK	#17	Michael Reeder	Sulphur, La.
2000	TB	#5	LaDainian Tomlinson	Waco
2002	LB	#44	LaMarcus McDonald	Waco
2003	PK	#9	Nick Browne	Garland
2005	KR	#17	Cory Rodgers	Houston

AP Top 25 Finishes:

Year	Rank
1935	#1
1936	#16
1937	#16
1938	#1
1951	#11
1955	#6
1956	#14
1958	#10
1959	#7
2000	#21
2002	#23
2003	#25
2005	#11

Bowl History

Year	Bowl	Opponent	Result
1920	Fort Worth Classic	Centre College	Loss 63-7
1935	Sugar Bowl	LSU	Win 3-2
1936	Cotton Bowl	Marquette	Win 16-6
1938	Sugar Bowl	Carnegie Mellon	Win 15-7
1941	Orange Bowl	Georgia	Loss 40-26
1944	Cotton Bowl	Oklahoma State	Loss 34-0
1947	Delta Bowl	Mississippi	Loss 13-9
1951	Cotton Bowl	Kentucky	Loss 20-7
1955	Cotton Bowl	Mississippi	Loss 14-13
1956	Cotton Bowl	Syracuse	Win 28-27
1958	Cotton Bowl	Air Force	Tie 0-0
1959	Bluebonnet Bowl	Clemson	Loss 23-7
1965	Sun Bowl	UTEP	Loss 13-12
1984	Bluebonnet Bowl	West Virginia	Loss 31-14
1994	Independence Bowl	Virginia	Loss 20-10
1998	Sun Bowl	Southern California (USC)	Win 28-19
1999	Mobile Alabama Bowl	East Carolina	Win 28-14
2000	Mobile Alabama Bowl	Southern Miss	Loss 28-21
2001	galleryfurniture.com Bowl	Texas A&M	Loss 28-9
2002	Liberty Bowl	Colorado State	Win 17-3
2003	Fort Worth Bowl	Boise State	Loss 34-31
2005	Houston Bowl	Iowa State	Win 27-24
2006	Poinsettia Bowl	Northern Illinois	Win 37-7

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Men's basketball

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Women's Basketball

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Women's Volleyball

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Men's & Women's Cross Country

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Women's Equestrian

In December 2005 it was announced that starting in the 2006-2007 academic year women's equestrian would become a varsity sport sponsored by TCU. The NCAA designated equestrian as an emerging sport in 1998, and there are currently 23 intercollegiate programs in NCAA Division I and II. Programs in the region include Baylor, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, SMU, Stephen F. Austin, Texas A&M and West Texas A&M. Intercollegiate equestrian programs support an average of 70 student-athletes.

Men's & Women's Golf

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Women's Rifle

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Women's Soccer

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Men's & Women's Swimming & Diving

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Men's & Women's Tennis

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Men's & Women's Track & Field

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Discontinued Sports

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Rivalries

University of Arkansas

Arkansas leads the football series dating back to 1920, 43-23-2. The two schools played regularly until Arkansas left the Southwest Conference to join the Southeastern Conference in 1992. They are scheduled to pick up this series again with a game in both 2008 and 2009. Last meeting: 1991 Arkansas 22 - TCU 21

Baylor University

Baylor leads the football series 49-48-7. This rivalry harkens back to 1899 in the early days of TCU football when TCU was know as AddRan Christian University. When the series started TCU and Baylor were both located in Waco, Texas. It is one of the most played rivalries in all of NCAA College Football. The two schools are scheduled to conclude a home-and-home series in 2007, with another home-and-home to be held in 2010 and 2011. Last meeting: 2006 TCU 17 - Baylor 7

University of Houston

Houston leads the football series dating back to 1976, 13-11-0. While Houston won 9 of the first 12 meetings, TCU has won 8 of the last 12 including the last 7 straight. Houston was the one school that was left behind in the breakup of the Southwest Conference that didn't move to the Western Athletic Conference to continue it's SWC rivalries, opting instead to join Conference USA where it and TCU reunited in the 2001 season. It was thought that the 4 SWC schools left behind in 1996 would be reuinted in the western division of the lastest incarnation of Conference USA starting in 2005, however, TCU was invited to and joined the Mountain West Conference after SMU and Rice accepted their invitations to CUSA. This once again left at least one of the schools, in this cast TCU, away from the other three, Houston, Rice and SMU. Last meeting: 2004 TCU 34 - Houston 27

Rice University

TCU leads the football series dating back to 1914, 41-35-3. The two institutions shared a common bond as a fellow private institutions in the now legendary former Southwest Conference. As of now there is no plan to renew the football rivalry. Last meeting: 2000 TCU (10-2) 37 - Rice (3-8) 0

Southern Methodist University

TCU leads the football series 40-39-7. Since 1915 when SMU was founded and subsequently started playing football there have been only three seasons that the two schools didn't meet on the football field (1919, 1920 and 2006) and in which both universities fielded a football team. The schools are scheduled to meet again starting in 2007 through at least 2010. Last meeting: 2005 SMU 21 - TCU 10 (TCU's only loss of the 2005 season.)

University of Texas

Texas leads the football series dating back to 1897, 60-20-1. TCU has only won 4 of the last 35 matchups with the last occuring in 1992. The two schools are scheduled renew this rivalry for the first time since the breakup of the Southwest Conference, with only one future game scheduled when TCU visits Austin in 2007. Last meeting: 1995 Texas 27 - TCU 19

Texas A&M University

Texas A&M leads the football series also dating back to 1897, 56-29-7. Texas A&M was the first of the 4 schools that left the Southwest Conference to form the Bix 12 Conference to play TCU but not because of any agreement between the two schools. They met in a 2001 matchup in the galleryfurniture.com Houston Bowl and their is no current plan to renew this rivalry. TCU has lost the last 24 contests between the two schools with TCU's last win coming in 1973. Last meeting: 2001 Texas A&M 28 - TCU 9

Texas Tech University

Texas Tech leads the football series dating back to 1926, 28-23-3. Texas Tech was the first of the 4 Southwest Conference schools that left to form the Big 12 Conference to schedule a game with TCU in the regular season in 2004. The two schools are next scheduled to meet in the 2009-2010 seasons. Last meeting: 2006 TCU 12 - Texas Tech 3

Traditions

Alma Mater

Academic Verse:
Hail all hail, TCU
Memories Sweet, Comrades True
Light of Faith, Follow Through
Praise to Thee, TCU

Athletic Verse:
Hail all hail, Glory bright
Purple Frogs, Honor White
Victory, Spirits True
Praise to Thee, TCU

Fight Song

Verse:
We'll raise a song, both loud and long
To cheer our team to victor
For TCU, so tried and true,
We pledge eternal loyalty.

Rah, Rah, TCU!
Rah, Rah, TCU!

Fight on boys, fight, with all your might
Roll up the scores for TCU
Hail white and purple flag whose heroes never lag,
Horned Frog, we are all for you!

Chant:

F-R-O-G-S F-I-G-H-T
Purple, White, Horned Frogs Fight
Victory, Victory, Right, Right, Right

Rah, Rah TCU! Rah, Rah, TCU

F-R-O-G-S F-I-G-H-T
Go, Go, Horned Frogs Go
TCU Frogs Fight

Cheers

Rif Ram:
Riff, Ram, Bah Zoo
Lickety, Lickety, Zoo, Zoo
Who, Wah, Wah, Who
Give 'em hell, TCU

NCAA National Championships

Year	Sport	Coach
1935	Football	Dutch Meyer
1938	Football	Dutch Meyer
1983	Women's Golf	Unknown

External links

• Official TCU athletics site
• Killer Frogs - TCU Fan Site.