1935 TCU Horned Frogs football team
| 1935 TCU Horned Frogs football | |
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National champion | |
Sugar Bowl, W 3–2 vs. LSU | |
| Conference | Southwestern Conference |
| Ranking | |
| Coaches | No. 4 |
| 1935 record | 12–1 (5–1 SWC) |
| Head coach | Dutch Meyer |
| Home stadium |
Amon G. Carter Stadium (Capacity: 22,000) |
| 1935 Southwest Conference football standings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SMU $ | 6 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 12 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | 1 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Texas A&M | 1 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1935 TCU Horned Frogs football team represented Texas Christian University (TCU) in the 1935 college football season. 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…"[1]
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 Bobby Wilson who made what is described as a "jumping, twisting catch that swept him over the line for the touchdown."[1] 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.[2]
Even with the loss to SMU, who later lost to Stanford in the 1936 Rose Bowl, TCU claims 1935 as a national championship year.
Schedule
| Date | Opponent# | Rank# | Site | Result | |||||
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| September 21 | at Howard Payne* | Brownwood, TX | W 41–0 | ||||||
| September 28 | North Texas* | Amon G. Carter Stadium • Fort Worth, TX | W 28–11 | ||||||
| October 5 | at Arkansas | The Hill • Fayetteville, AR | W 13–7 | ||||||
| October 12 | at Tulsa* | Skelly Field • Tulsa, OK | W 13–0 | ||||||
| October 19 | Texas A&M | Amon G. Carter Stadium • Fort Worth, TX | W 19–14 | ||||||
| October 26 | Centenary* | Amon G. Carter Stadium • Fort Worth, TX | W 27–7 | ||||||
| November 2 | at Baylor | Waco, TX (Rivalry) | W 28–0 | ||||||
| November 8 | at Loyola* | W 14–0 | |||||||
| November 16 | at Texas | Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX | W 28–0 | ||||||
| November 23 | Rice | Amon G. Carter Stadium • Fort Worth, TX | W 27–6 | ||||||
| November 30 | SMU | Amon G. Carter Stadium • Fort Worth, TX (Rivalry) | L 14–20 | ||||||
| December 7 | at Santa Clara* | Kezar Stadium • San Francisco, CA | W 10–6 | ||||||
| January 1 | vs. LSU* | New Orleans, LA (Sugar Bowl) | W 3–2 | ||||||
*Non-conference game.  Homecoming. #Rankings from Coaches' Poll released prior to game. | |||||||||
References
- 1 2 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".
- ↑ "1935 Texas Christian Horned Frogs". College Football at Sports-Reference.com.