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The ''' TCU Horned Frogs football team''' is the [[college football|intercollegiate football]] team of [[Texas Christian University]] (TCU). The Horned Frogs compete in [[Division I (NCAA)#Football Bowl Subdivision|Division I Football Bowl Subdivision]] (FBS), the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association]] (NCAA) in the United States.

Since 2012, the Horned Frogs have been a member of the [[Big 12 Conference]], and were previously members of the [[Mountain West Conference]] (MWC), [[Western Athletic Conference]] (WAC), [[Conference USA]] (C-USA), [[Southwest Conference]] (SWC), and [[Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association]] (TIAA).

TCU began playing football in 1896 and claims national championships in 1935 and 1938. TCU has one [[Heisman Trophy]] winner, [[Davey O'Brien]], and has had seven former players inducted into the [[College Football Hall of Fame]]. The Horned Frogs play their home games in [[Amon G. Carter Stadium]], which is located on campus in [[Fort Worth, Texas|Fort Worth]].

==History==
{{See also|List of TCU Horned Frogs football seasons}}

===Early Years (1896–1922)===
TCU's first year of football started on December 7, 1896, when it still went by the name [[Texas Christian University#History|AddRan Male & Female College]]. TCU won its first game ever played by beating Toby's Business College to the score of 8–6, apparently not having to use any substitutes. TCU finished its first ever season with a record of 12–0–0. {{Clarify|date=July 2008}}<ref>{{cite book
| editor = Jenkins, Dan & Fitzgerald, Francis J.
| title = Greatest Moments in TCU Football
| year = 1996
| publisher = AdCraft Sports Marketing
| isbn = 1-887761-04-7
| page = 27
}}</ref>

Prior to joining the [[Southwest Conference]] in 1923, TCU amassed a record of 165–15–0. In [[1912 college football season|1912]], TCU went 8–1–0 and scored 230 points while only allowing 53 points the whole season.

In [[1920 college football season|1920]], TCU won its first conference title as a member of the [[Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association]] (TIAA). The Horned Frogs' 9–1–0 record earned them a spot in the [[Fort Worth Classic]], also known as the Dixie Bowl, against [[Centre Praying Colonels football|Centre College]]. Although the game was played in Fort Worth, Centre won the game 63–7.<ref name="MGHistory">{{cite web
| title = 2006 TCU Football Media Guide
| year = 2006
| url = http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/tcu/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/06-mg-section-8.pdf
| format = PDF
| accessdate = 2007-05-25
| page = 154 }}
</ref>

===Early Southwest Conference years (1923–1933)===
In [[1923 college football season|1923]], TCU endured a 5-game winning streak during its first year in the SWC, but it earned a 2–1–0 conference record and a 5–4–0 overall record. One loss that year was a 40–21 decision against TCU's emerging rival, the [[SMU Mustangs football|SMU Mustangs]], who went 9–0 en route to a conference championship.<ref>{{cite web | title = D1aFootball.com 1923 SWC Standings | date = | url = http://d1afootball.com/standing/1900-24/1923.php | accessdate = 2007-05-25 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070927204049/http://d1afootball.com/standing/1900-24/1923.php <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2007-09-27}}</ref> The next year, TCU finished second place in the conference with a 5–1 SWC record and another 5–2 overall record.<ref>{{cite web | title = D1aFootball.com 1924 SWC Standings | date = | url = http://d1afootball.com/standing/1900-24/1924.php | accessdate = 2007-05-25 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070927204036/http://d1afootball.com/standing/1900-24/1924.php <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2007-09-27}}</ref>

After two great seasons, the Horned Frogs righted the ship. Prior to 1923 TCU had had a revolving door of coaches, with no coaching the football for more than two years. Following entrance to the SWC, the school established a high degree of stability, employing just four coaches over the next 43 years, and would not hit last place again until [[1953 college football season|1953]].<ref name="MGHistory"/> Under those four coaches (Bell, Schmidt, Meyer, and Martin, the Frogs accumulated a record of [tel:262–165–30 262–165–30].

[[Madison A. "Matty" Bell|Matty Bell]], who began coaching the Frogs in 1923, had his best year in [[1928 college football season|1928]], his last year as coach. That year's only losses came at home 7–6 to the [[Baylor Bears football|Baylor Bears]] and to Texas by a score of 6–0. That year the Frogs finished in second place in the conference at 8–2–0 overall and 3–2 in conference play.<ref>{{cite web | title = D1aFootball.com 1928 SWC Standings | date = | url = http://d1afootball.com/standing/1925-49/1928.php | accessdate = 2007-05-25 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070927204043/http://d1afootball.com/standing/1925-49/1928.php <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2007-09-27}}</ref>

The 1929 season saw the arrival of Coach [[Francis Schmidt]] and TCU's first SWC title. The title was won in the last game of the year on November 30, 1929 against SMU. Coming into the game TCU led SMU in the conference standings. TCU had 4 wins, while SMU's conference record was 3–0–1. Since this was the last conference game of the year for both teams, TCU could win its first SWC title with a win or a tie. The first half of the game was scoreless, but in the third quarter Weldon "Speedy" Mason tacked on 40 yards to a 16-yard pass from SMU quarterback Bob Gilbert. After the extra point, the Mustangs led 7–0. TCU would not score until its second time on the SMU] 1-yard line in the fourth quarter. That is when TCU quarterback Howard Grubbs ran behind All-SWC fullback Harlos Green and [[Mike Brumbelow]] for the game-tying score. The Frogs left plenty of time on the clock for SMU to answer their score, but Grubbs, now playing defense, intercepted Gilbert's pass. TCU then ran the clock out to force the tie and to win its first SWC title.<ref>{{cite book
| editor = Jenkins, Dan & Fitzgerald, Francis J.
| title = Greatest Moments in TCU Football
| year = 1996
| publisher = AdCraft Sports Marketing
| isbn = 1-887761-04-7
| page = 33
}}</ref>

===The Dutch Meyer era (1934–1952)===
[[1935 college football season|1935]] began the first year for TCU coach [[Dutch Meyer]]. That year TCU and SMU again met to decide not only the SWC title but the first trip to the [[Rose Bowl (game)|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:
<blockquote>
In a [[Amon Carter Stadium|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…"<ref name="greatest">{{cite book
| editor = Jenkins, Dan & Fitzgerald, Francis J.
| title = Greatest Moments in TCU football
| year = 1996
| publisher = AdCraft Sports Marketing
| isbn = 1-887761-04-7
| page = 55
}}</ref>
</blockquote>
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 (running back)|Bobby Wilson]] who made what is described as a "jumping, twisting catch that swept him over the line for the touchdown."<ref name="greatest"/> TCU would lose the game 20–14, but would be invited to play the [[LSU Tigers football|LSU Tigers]] in the [[1936 Sugar Bowl]], where the Frogs would be victorious 3–2 at messy and muddy [[Tulane Stadium]].<ref>{{cite web
| title = 1936 Game Recap
| url = http://www.allstatesugarbowl.org/site165.php}}
</ref>

Even with the loss to SMU, who later lost to [[Stanford Cardinal football|Stanford]] in the 1936 Rose Bowl, TCU claims [[1935 college football season|1935]] as a national championship year. Dan Jenkins states that one of the first statistical national polls was created by Frank G. Dickinson in 1924. By [[1935 in sports|1935]] there were several other polls, and "…only one of them was big and caught on big and rivaled Dickinson. This was the Paul O. Williamson System out of [[New Orleans]]. It quickly gained nation-wide respect and a large syndicated circulation."<ref>{{cite book
| editor = Jenkins, Dan & Fitzgerald, Francis J.
| title = Greatest Moments in TCU Football
| year = 1996
| publisher = AdCraft Sports Marketing
| isbn = 1-887761-04-7
| page = 14
}}</ref> The Williamson System awarded TCU a shared championship with LSU in 1935, the year before the first sportswriter poll by the [[Associated Press]]. The Dickinson poll awarded SMU the national title, and several smaller polls designated the [[University of Minnesota]] and [[Princeton University]] as their champions<ref>{{cite web
| title = NCAA D-IA Football Past Champions
| url = http://www.ncaa.org/champadmin/ia_football_past_champs.htm
| accessdate = 2007-05-25}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}
</ref>

Meyer led TCU to a win in the inaugural [[Cotton Bowl Classic]] in [[1937 college football season|1937]]. [[1938 college football season|A year later]], TCU would go undefeated in [[1938 college football season|1938]] behind TCU's only [[Heisman Trophy]] winner—quarterback [[Davey O'Brien]]. That year the Frogs' closest game came against the [[Arkansas Razorbacks football|University of Arkansas]] where they beat the Razorbacks 21–14 in Fort Worth. They were invited to the 1939 [[Sugar Bowl]] and beat the [[Carnegie Mellon University|Carnegie Tech Tartans]] from [[Pittsburgh]] by a score of 15–7 in front of more than 50,000 spectators.<ref>{{cite book
| editor = Jenkins, Dan & Fitzgerald, Francis J.
| title = Greatest Moments in TCU Football
| year = 1996
| publisher = AdCraft Sports Marketing
| isbn = 1-887761-04-7
| page = 73
}}</ref>

Meyer coached TCU from 1934 to 1952, compiling a record of [tel:109-79-13 109-79-13].<ref>{{cite web
| title = TCU – News and Events
| url = http://www.newsevents.tcu.edu/1794.asp}}
</ref>
He also won seven Southwest Conference titles. During Meyer's tenure, TCU played in the first nationally televised regular season game against [[Kansas Jayhawks football|Kansas]].

===The Abe Martin era (1953–1966)===
When Dutch Meyer retired, his backfield assistant, [[Abe Martin]], became head coach at TCU. One of his three tries at a SWC title came in 1958. The Frogs only losses were to [[1958 Iowa Hawkeyes football team|Iowa]] by a score of 0–17 and at #18 [[SMU Mustangs football|SMU]], 13–20.<ref>[http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/tcu/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/06-mg-section-7.pdf 2006 TCU Football Media Guide] p. 150</ref> The [[1958 college football season|1958]] season ended in a scoreless tie against the [[Air Force Falcons football|Air Force Falcons]] in the 1959 Cotton Bowl Classic. Martin-led TCU teams amassed a 4–1–1 record in bowl games. The lone win came in the 1957 Cotton Bowl Classic against a [[Jim Brown]]-led [[1956 Syracuse Orangemen football team|Syracuse]] team in front of 68,000 spectators.<ref>{{cite book
| editor = Jenkins, Dan & Fitzgerald, Francis J.
| title = Greatest Moments in TCU Football
| year = 1996
| publisher = AdCraft Sports Marketing
| isbn = 1-887761-04-7
| page = 138
}}</ref> A blocked extra-point attempt was the difference in the game and allowed the Horned Frogs to win 28–27.{{Citation needed|date=July 2008}}

=== Pittman/F.A. Dry Era (1967–1982)===
After TCU won the 1959 SWC championship, the Horned Frogs did not earn another share of the conference title for twenty years. During this time, TCU played the role of the underdog. In [[1961 in sports|1961]], '''Bill Van Fleet''' of the ''[[Fort Worth Star-Telegram]]'' called the Horned Frogs' 6–0 win at then-No. 1 [[Texas Longhorns|Texas]], "the season's greatest upset of the year."<ref>{{cite book
| editor = Jenkins, Dan & Fitzgerald, Francis J.
| title = Greatest Moments in TCU Football
| year = 1996
| publisher = AdCraft Sports Marketing
| isbn = 1-887761-04-7
| page = 162
}}</ref> In [[1965 college football season|1965]], TCU traveled to [[El Paso]] to play in the [[Sun Bowl]] against [[UTEP Miners|UTEP]]; the Frogs lost<ref>Sun Bowl History</ref> 13–12. The state of football at TCU eventually declined and in the 1980s to 1983 the Frogs never won more than two games in three seasons.

===Jim Wacker (1983–1991) and NCAA Probation===
TCU would have a successful year in [[1984 NCAA Division I-A football season|1984]] under coach [[Jim Wacker]]. That year TCU leaned on All-American running back [[Kenneth Davis (American football)|Kenneth Davis]]. The Frogs would be invited to the [[Bluebonnet Bowl]] in [[Houston]] for their bowl invitation in 1984 to play the [[1984 West Virginia Mountaineers football team|West Virginia Mountaineers]]. The Frogs would lose against the Mountaineers 31–14. TCU wouldn't attend another bowl game until the 1994 [[Independence Bowl]] in [[Shreveport, Louisiana]], which they lost, 20–10, to the [[Virginia Cavaliers football|Virginia Cavaliers]].

In 1986, the NCAA placed TCU on three-year probation.<ref name="probation">{{cite press release | title = Major Infractions Database: Texas Christian University | publisher = NCAA | date = May 9, 1986 | url=https://goomer.ncaa.org/wdbctx/LSDBi/LSDBi.MajorInfPackage.DisplayMICase?p_PkValue=424&p_HeadFoot=1&p_CallCount=1&p_Name=Texas%20Christian%20University&p_HeadingTerms=ThisIsADummyPhraseThatWillNotBeDuplicated&p_SummaryTerms=ThisIsADummyPhraseThatWillNotBeDuplicated&p_PenaltyTerms=ThisIsADummyPhraseThatWillNotBeDuplicated&p_PublicTerms=ThisIsADummyPhraseThatWillNotBeDuplicated&p_AppealTerms=ThisIsADummyPhraseThatWillNotBeDuplicated | accessdate = 2007-07-08}}</ref> They found that 6 boosters provided football recruits and football players with cash and other forms of payment. The final penalty of the NCAA was to ban TCU from post-season play for one season, a forfeiture of TV revenue for the 1983 and 1984 seasons, only 10 scholarships for the 1987–88 academic year and only 15 scholarships for the 1988–89 season. The NCAA said it would have given TCU a harsher penalty: a three-year ban from postseason play, a three-year television appearance ban and no new scholarships for two years.<ref name="probation" /> In the NCAA's public release they imposed a reduced penalty because TCU self-reported the violations, suspended the players in question, fully cooperated with the enforcement committee and presented a lack of previous infractions.<ref name="probation" />

===The Pat Sullivan era (1992–1997)===
In 1992, TCU hired [[Pat Sullivan (American football)|Pat Sullivan]], the [[1971 college football season|1971]] [[Heisman Trophy]] winner from Auburn, as head coach. His tenure at TCU was plagued with inconsistency, but marked the beginning of the new TCU renaissance.

In 1992, his first year as head coach, Sullivan introduced a new arched TCU logo. This change to the uniforms was part of a broader plan by Sullivan and the school to replace the expectation of losing with a new look and attitude. Since its introduction the arched TCU has become the preferred and most popular of the school's logos.

In 1992 Sullivan's team finished 2-8-1, but one of their victories was a 28-14 triumph over the [[1992 Texas Longhorns football team|Texas Longhorns]], which was a major accomplishment for the program at that time.

The 1993 team continued to show signs of improvement, finishing 4-7.

1994 was Sullivan's best year. In the final game of that season, Sullivan led TCU to a 24-17 victory over [[Texas Tech]] before a crowd of 43,000 at [[Amon Carter Stadium]]. That victory propelled the Frogs to a 7-5 record and a share of the Southwest Conference title. It was the first the Southwest Conference title for TCU since 1959.

After 1994, the team regressed: the Frogs went 6-5 in 1995, the last year of the Southwest Conference. TCU struggled even more during Sullivan's final two seasons, when the team competed in the [[Western Athletic Conference]]. They finished 4-7 in 1996, and a disastrous 1-10 campaign in 1997 led to Sullivan's firing.

One of Coach Sullivan's greatest contributions to TCU was the recruitment of future NFL star running back [[LaDainian Tomlinson]] to Fort Worth.

===Dennis Franchione (1998–2000)===

Under [[Dennis Franchione]], and with the help of Tomlinson, TCU defeated the [[1998 USC Trojans football team|USC Trojans]] in the [[1998 NCAA Division I-A football season|1998]] [[Sun Bowl]]. In the three years Coach Franchione was at TCU, his bowl record was 2–0 and he accumulated three [[Western Athletic Conference|WAC]] Championships. Franchione coached the entire [[2000 NCAA Division I-A football season|2000]] regular season, but left for the head coaching position at the [[Alabama Crimson Tide football|University of Alabama]] before the [[2000 Mobile Alabama Bowl]].

===The Gary Patterson era (2000–present)===
Defensive Coordinator [[Gary Patterson]] took over as head coach for the bowl game in 2000. In [[2001 NCAA Division I-A football season|2001]] TCU left the [[Western Athletic Conference|WAC]] for [[Conference USA]] (C-USA). TCU would only stay in C-USA for four years before accepting an invitation to join the newly formed [[Mountain West Conference]] (MWC).

Patterson led the Horned Frogs to five conference championships. In [[2002 NCAA Division I-A football season|2002]], TCU shared the C-USA title with [[Cincinnati Bearcats football|Cincinnati]]. In [[2005 NCAA Division I-A football season|2005]], TCU won the MWC title their first year in the league, and the Frogs claimed additional conference crowns in [[2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season|2009]], [[2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season|2010]] and [[2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season|2011]]. Patterson has had a winning season every year except 2004 and 2013, and TCU has gone to a bowl game every year except 2004 and 2013.

In the [[2005 Houston Bowl]], played at [[Reliant Stadium]] in Houston, Texas, the Horned Frogs defeated the [[2005 Iowa State Cyclones football team|Iowa State Cyclones]] by a score of 27–24.

In the [[2006 Poinsettia Bowl]] TCU defeated the [[Northern Illinois Huskies football|Northern Illinois Huskies]] 37–7.

In 2007, the Horned Frogs returned to play in the [[2007 Texas Bowl]], a revival of the old [[Houston Bowl]], and defeated the [[2007 Houston Cougars football team|University of Houston]] [[2007 Houston Cougars football team|Cougars]], 20–13.

In a return to the [[2008 Poinsettia Bowl|Poinsettia Bowl]] in 2008 the #11 Frogs defeated unbeaten #9 [[2008 Boise State Broncos football team|Boise State]] 17–16. Boise State was the second to last unbeaten team in the nation in 2008 besides the [[2008 Utah Utes football team|Utah Utes]]. TCU's Poinsettia Bowl victory helped them finish the [[2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season|2008 season]] ranked #7 in the country.

In [[2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season|2009]], [[2009 TCU Horned Frogs football team|TCU]] again attained national prominence with its second undefeated regular season (12–0) since Dutch Meyer led the Frogs to perfection in 1938. They lost in the [[2010 Fiesta Bowl|2010 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl]], 17–10, to the [[2009 Boise State Broncos football team|Boise State Broncos]], on January 4, 2010—their first major-bowl appearance since the 1959 Cotton Bowl.

In the [[2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season|following year]], the Horned Frogs capped their second consecutive perfect regular season with a win in their first [[Rose Bowl Game|Rose Bowl]], a 21–19 victory over [[Big Ten]] co-champion [[2010 Wisconsin Badgers football team|Wisconsin]] on New Year's Day, [[2011 Rose Bowl|2011]]. This capped off only the second undefeated and untied season in school history.

After going 11-2 and winning the Mountain West title again in [[2011 TCU Horned Frogs football team|2011]], the Horned Frogs played [[2011 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team|Louisiana Tech]] in the [[2011 Poinsettia Bowl|Poinsettia Bowl]]. TCU won 31-24 in a somewhat lackluster performance after narrowly (and somewhat controversially) missing their third BCS Bowl bid in a row. TCU finished 16th in the final BCS rankings, two slots below the cutoff for a non-AQ team to get a BCS bid. The win allowed Patterson to tie Meyer as the winningest coach in TCU history. On October 10, 2011, the TCU Board of Trustees approved an invitation to join the Big 12 Conference, and entered that conference on July 1, 2012. The move to the Big 12 is a return "home" in a sense for the Horned Frogs, as they renew many of their in-state rivalries from the old Southwest Conference. Before the move to the Big 12, the Horned Frogs had been reckoned as one of the closest things to a major football power in a mid-major conference.

[[Amon G. Carter Stadium]], the Horned Frogs' home field since 1929, concluded large renovations prior to the [[2012 TCU Horned Frogs football team|2012]] season. It features a new press box, suites, club seats and improved fan amenities in many areas – new and more comfortable seating, wider concourses, new and improved restrooms and concessions areas, handicap accessible accommodations, elevators and escalators to move patrons among levels, and new lighting. The stadium was used during the [[2011 TCU Horned Frogs football team|2011]] season while being renovated.<ref>{{cite web|title=Amon G Carter Stadium Redevelopment|url=http://www.stadium.tcu.edu/faq.asp|publisher=Texas Christian University|accessdate=2011-03-18}}</ref>

The Horned Frogs played their first game in the renovated stadium on September 8, 2012 and routed Grambling 56-0. The win was also Patterson's 110th win with the Horned Frogs, making him the winningest coach in TCU history.

The Horned Frogs returned to national prominence in [[2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season|2014]], after they finished the [[2013 NCAA Division I FBS football season|2013]] season with a disappointing 4-8 record. The Horned Frogs started with a 4-0 record to begin the year, with impressive wins over [[University of Minnesota|Minnesota]] and #4 ranked [[University of Oklahoma|Oklahoma]]. After the upset of Oklahoma, the Horned Frogs rose to the #9 ranking going into their October 11 meeting with then #5 ranked [[Baylor University|Baylor]]. With approximately 11 minutes remaining in the game, TCU had a commanding 58-37 lead over the Bears, but Baylor engineered one of the greatest comebacks in NCAA history by scoring 24 unanswered points in the fourth quarter to defeat the Horned Frogs, 61-58. The Baylor game would be the lone loss for TCU in 2014, as they would rally to win their remaining seven games behind the leadership of their [[Heisman Trophy]] finalist quarterback, [[Trevone Boykin]]. The Horned Frogs began to emerge as a [[2015 College Football Championship Game|National Championship]] contender after their convincing 41-20 win over then #7 ranked [[Kansas State University|Kansas State]]. Going into the final week of the regular season, TCU was ranked #3 in the newly formed [[College Football Playoff]] poll, which coincided with the new [[College Football Playoff]] system, whose format selects the Top 4 teams in the rankings at the end of the season to participate in a four team playoff system to decide a [[2015 College Football Championship Game|National Champion]]. TCU soundly defeated [[Iowa State University|Iowa State]] in their final regular season game to finish the 2014 season with an 11-1 record. The Horned Frogs also claimed a share of the [[2014 Big 12 Conference football season|Big 12 Conference Championship]] along with [[Baylor University|Baylor]]. On December 7, 2014, the final [[College Football Playoff]] rankings were released, despite the Horned Frogs' impressive resume, they dropped to the #6 ranking in the poll, abruptly ending the Horned Frogs' National Championship hopes. TCU decimated #9 [[2014 Ole Miss Rebels football team|Ole Miss/Mississippi]], 42-3 in the [[2014 Peach Bowl|Peach Bowl]].<ref>{{cite web|title=TCU lets it all out in rout of Ole Miss|url=http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/college/big-12/texas-christian-university/article5247093.html|publisher=Fort Worth Star-Telegram|accessdate=2014-12-31}}</ref>

==Home Stadium==
{{Main|Amon G. Carter Stadium}}
The Horned Frogs have played their home football games at [[Amon G. Carter Stadium]], located on the campus of TCU, since 1930.

Named for the famous Fort Worth newspaper magnate who made the original donation to finance the stadium, Amon G. Carter Stadium opened in 1930 with an original [[seating capacity]] of 22,000. The first game played in the stadium was in October, a 70-6 TCU victory over the [[Arkansas Razorbacks]]. Renovations in 1947 and 1955 added additional seating and an upper deck, which increased capacity to roughly 45,000. The stadium remained in this configuration until [[2010 TCU Horned Frogs football team|2010]], when a major renovation reduced the entire stadium to its original lower bowl, before erecting a new stadium on the same site. The design of the current Amon Carter stadium was influenced heavily by the surrounding architecture of Fort Worth, with emphasis on Art Deco style. The Frogs opened the new stadium in time for the [[2012 TCU Horned Frogs football team|2012]] season.

Amon G. Carter stadium features a natural grass field and a seating capacity of roughly 45,000. Standing-room only concourses allow capacity to exceed this number when ticket demand exceeds seating availability. The record attendance is 50,307 which took place on November 14, 2009 when the Frogs played the then No. 16 ranked Utah Utes. The final score was a whopping 55-28 in favor of the Frogs. The 2012-2012 renovation added a 54ft. video board over the North endzone, with a smaller videoboard located in the Southeast corner.

Before Amon G. Carter Stadium, the Horned Frogs played their home games on campus at Clark Field, located at the current site of [[Mary Couts Burnett Library]].

==Uniforms==

===Colors===
TCU's school colors are purple and white. Historically, black has also featured prominently in the school's uniforms. As early as 1935 the football team wore black leather helmets with a purple stripe, or occasionally purple helmets with a black stripe. Jerseys were purple with white numbers were, worn with beige or khaki pants.

Beginning with the introduction of plastic helmets in the 1946 TCU dropped black from their uniforms and introduced a new purple helmet with a white stripe. The team's pants remained khaki colored until the 1950s, when they were changed to white.

During this period the exact shade of TCU purple varied wildly depending on the uniforms worn, though a royal purple was most common. In 1971 the school hired Jim Pittman as its head coach. Pittman had been an assistant at the [[University of Texas]] when the Longhorns had changed their color from orange to burnt orange, and wanted to do something similar at TCU. Pittman chose to introduce a very pale shade of lilac into the TCU uniforms, and the team quickly became known as the "Lavender Hill Mob." These uniforms are often regarded as the worst in TCU's history. TCU returned to a royal purple in 1974 following Pittman's premature and tragic death on the sidelines.

Beginning in 1998, TCU began once again incorporating black into the uniforms. The practice was started by Coach Franchione, who introduced a new helmet with black facemask, and purple jerseys with black pants. In 2012 the school debuted helmets which featured a black stripe in addition to the black facemask, reflecting the helmets worn during the TCU championship years of the 1930s.

===Helmets===
TCU was the last school in college football to wear leather helmets, switching to hard plastic helmets in 1946. Prior to 1946 the TCU football team wore either black helmets with a purple stripe, or purple helmets with a black stripe. Since the introduction of plastic TCU helmet has gone through a number of designs.

In the 1950s TCU wore a purple helmet with white stripe down the middle. In 1954 a gray facemask was introduced, and in 1958 white numbers were added to the sides of the helmet.

In 1965 a new helmet was introduced featuring a purple shell and a white stylized [[Texas Horned Lizard|Horned Frog]] on the side. A different, fiercer Horned Frog design was used for the 1966 helmets, featuring just the Frog's head. In 1967 the school used a pattern similar to that of [[Texas A&M University|Texas A&M]].

In 1977 the school introduced a "Flying TCU" logo, which remained on the helmets until 1991, and remains popular with the school and especially students today. In 1992 Head Coach Pat Sullivan introduced an arched TCU design, which eventually became the official logo of the school. This logo has been featured on every TCU helmet, with slight variations, ever since.

==Championships and Bowl Games==

===National Championships (2)===

{| border="0" style="width:100%;"
|-
| valign="top" |
| cellpadding="1" border="1" cellspacing="0" style="width:80%;"
|-
! style="background:#609;"| <span style="color:white;">Year
! style="background:#609;"| <span style="color:white;">Coach
! style="background:#609;"| <span style="color:white;">Selector
! style="background:#609;"| <span style="color:white;">Record
! style="background:#609;"| <span style="color:white;">Bowl
! style="background:#609;"| <span style="color:white;">Result
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[1935 college football season|1935]] || [[Dutch Meyer]] || Williamson Poll || 12–1 || [[Sugar Bowl]] || TCU 3, LSU 2
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[1938 TCU Horned Frogs football team|1938]] || [[Dutch Meyer]] || [[AP Poll]] || 11–0 || [[Sugar Bowl]] || TCU 15, Carnegie Mellon 7
|- style="text-align:center; background:#fff;"
| colspan="5"| '''Total national championships:'''
| colspan="1"| '''2'''
|}

TCU holds two national championships in football, one from [[1935 college football season|1935]] and the other from [[1938 college football season|1938]]. In 1935, TCU spent most of the season ranked No. 1 in the country before losing a regular season game to then No. 2 ranked [[SMU Mustangs football|SMU]] in the "Game of the Century." SMU went on to lose to [[Stanford Cardinal football|Stanford]] in the [[Rose Bowl (game)|Rose Bowl]], while TCU went on to beat [[LSU Tigers football|LSU]] in the [[Sugar Bowl]]. Since the [[Associated Press]] and wire services didn't award [[Mythical National Championship|national championships]] until 1936, TCU recognizes a statistical poll created by '''Paul O. Williamson''' who awarded his national title to LSU and TCU for the 1935 season. The [[1938 TCU Horned Frogs football team|1938 team]] was undefeated and was the consensus #1 team in the [[Associated Press Poll]].

===Conference Championships (18)===

TCU has won a combined 18 conference championships in 5 different conferences

{| border="0" style="width:100%;"
|-
| valign="top" |
{| cellpadding="1" border="1" cellspacing="0" style="width:80%;"
|-
! style="background:#609;"| <span style="color:white;">Year
! style="background:#609;"| <span style="color:white;">Conference
! style="background:#609;"| <span style="color:white;">Coach
! style="background:#609;"| <span style="color:white;">Record
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[1920 college football season|1920]]|| TIAA || [[W. L. Driver]] || 9–1–0
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[1929 college football season|1929]]|| Southwest Conference || [[Francis Schmidt]] || 9–0–1
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[1932 college football season|1932]] || Southwest Conference || [[Francis Schmidt]] || 10–0–1
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[1938 college football season|1938]]|| Southwest Conference || [[Dutch Meyer]] || 11–0–0
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[1944 college football season|1944]]|| Southwest Conference || [[Dutch Meyer]] || 8–3–0
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[1951 college football season|1951]]|| Southwest Conference || [[Dutch Meyer]] || 6–5–0
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[1955 college football season|1955]]|| Southwest Conference || [[Abe Martin]] || 9–2–0
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[1958 college football season|1958]]|| Southwest Conference || [[Abe Martin]] || 8–2–1
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[1959 college football season|1959]] § || Southwest Conference || [[Abe Martin]] || 8–3–0
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[1994 NCAA Division I-A football season|1994]] § || Southwest Conference || [[Pat Sullivan (American football)|Pat Sullivan]] || 7–5–0
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[1999 NCAA Division I-A football season|1999]] § || Western Athletic Conference || [[Dennis Franchione]] || 8–4
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[2000 NCAA Division I-A football season|2000]] § || Western Athletic Conference || [[Dennis Franchione]] || 10–2
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[2002 NCAA Division I-A football season|2002]] § || Conference USA || [[Gary Patterson]] || 11–2
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[2005 NCAA Division I-A football season|2005]]|| Mountain West Conference || [[Gary Patterson]] || 11–1
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season|2009]]|| Mountain West Conference || [[Gary Patterson]] || 12–1
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season|2010]]|| Mountain West Conference || [[Gary Patterson]] || 13–0
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season|2011]]|| Mountain West Conference || [[Gary Patterson]] || 11–2
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season|2014]] §|| Big 12 Conference || [[Gary Patterson]] || 12–1
|- style="text-align:center; background:#fff;"
| colspan="2"| <span style="color:black;">'''Total conference championships:'''
| colspan="2"| <span style="color:black;">'''18'''
|}

§ – Conference co-champions

* Note that the 1920 TIAA Championship was disputed between TCU and Austin College. Although TCU defeated the Kangaroos 9–7 on October 9, 1920, one of the TCU players, Allen Rowson, was declared ineligible after the 1920 season due to transfer rules.

===Conference affiliations===

{{col-begin}}
{{col-2}}
*1896–1913: [[NCAA Division I-A independent schools|Independent]]
*1914–1920: [[Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association]]
*1921–22: Independent
*1923–95: [[Southwest Conference]]
{{col-2}}
*1996–2000: [[Western Athletic Conference]]
*2001–2004: [[Conference USA]]
*2005–2011: [[Mountain West Conference]]
*2012–Present: [[Big 12 Conference]]
{{col-end}}

===Bowl games===
[[File:Boise State 2010 Fiesta Bowl.jpg|320px|right|thumb|The [[2010 Fiesta Bowl]] with [[Boise State Broncos football|Boise State]] against TCU]]

In 2014, TCU became just the fourth program in history to have competed in all six of the modern day CFP bowls (Rose, Fiesta, Sugar, Cotton, Peach and Orange). TCU joined Florida State University, Miami(Fl) and the University of Tennessee to earn this distinction. TCU has a combined 6-5-1 record in those bowls, notching wins in all but the Fiesta and Orange.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- style="background:#609; text-align:center;"
! Date || Bowl || W/L || Opponent || PF || PA
|- align=center
| January 1, 1921 || [[Fort Worth Classic]] || '''L''' || [[Centre Praying Colonels football|Centre College]] || 7 || 63
|- align=center
| January 1, 1936 || [[1936 Sugar Bowl|Sugar Bowl]] || '''W''' || [[LSU Tigers football|LSU]] || 3 || 2
|- align=center
| January 1, 1937 || [[1937 Cotton Bowl Classic|Cotton Bowl Classic]] || '''W''' || [[Marquette Golden Eagles|Marquette]] || 16 || 6
|- align=center
| January 2, 1939 || [[Sugar Bowl]] || '''W''' || [[Carnegie Mellon University|Carnegie Tech]] || 15 || 7
|- align=center
| January 1, 1942 || [[Orange Bowl (game)|Orange Bowl]] || '''L''' || [[1941 Georgia Bulldogs football team|Georgia]] || 26 || 40
|- align=center
| January 1, 1945 || [[Cotton Bowl Classic]] || '''L''' || [[Oklahoma State Cowboys football|Oklahoma State]] || 0 || 34
|- align=center
| January 1, 1948 || [[1948 Delta Bowl|Delta Bowl]] || '''L''' || [[Ole Miss Rebels|Mississippi]] || 9 || 13
|- align=center
| January 1, 1952 || [[1952 Cotton Bowl Classic|Cotton Bowl Classic]] || '''L''' || [[1951 Kentucky Wildcats football team|Kentucky]] || 7 || 20
|- align=center
| January 2, 1956 || [[Cotton Bowl Classic]] || '''L''' || [[Ole Miss Rebels|Mississippi]] || 13 || 14
|- align=center
| January 1, 1957 || [[Cotton Bowl Classic]] || '''W''' || [[1956 Syracuse Orangemen football team|Syracuse]] || 28 || 27
|- align=center
| January 1, 1959 || [[Cotton Bowl Classic]] || '''T''' || [[Air Force Falcons football|Air Force]] || 0 || 0
|- align=center
| December 19, 1959 || [[Bluebonnet Bowl]] || '''L''' || [[Clemson Tigers football|Clemson]] || 7 || 23
|- align=center
| December 31, 1965 || [[Sun Bowl]] || '''L''' || [[UTEP Miners|UTEP]] || 12 || 13
|- align=center
| December 31, 1984 || [[Bluebonnet Bowl]] || '''L''' || [[1984 West Virginia Mountaineers football team|West Virginia]] || 14 || 31
|- align=center
| December 28, 1994 || [[Independence Bowl]] || '''L''' || [[Virginia Cavaliers football|Virginia]] || 10 || 20
|- align=center
| December 31, 1998 || [[Sun Bowl]] || '''W''' || [[USC Trojans football|USC]] || 28 || 19
|- align=center
| December 22, 1999 || [[1999 GMAC Bowl|Mobile Alabama Bowl]] || '''W''' || [[1999 East Carolina Pirates football team|East Carolina]] || 28 || 14
|- align=center
| December 20, 2000 || [[2000 GMAC Bowl|Mobile Alabama Bowl]] || '''L''' || [[Southern Miss Golden Eagles football|Southern Miss]] || 21 || 28
|- align=center
| December 28, 2001 || [[Houston Bowl|Galleryfurniture.com Bowl]] || '''L''' || [[2001 Texas A&M Aggies football team|Texas A&M]] || 9 || 28
|- align=center
| December 31, 2002 || [[Liberty Bowl]] || '''W''' || [[Colorado State Rams football|Colorado State]] || 17 || 3
|- align=center
| December 23, 2003 || [[2003 Fort Worth Bowl|Fort Worth Bowl]] || '''L''' || [[2003 Boise State Broncos football team|Boise State]] || 31 || 34
|- align=center
| December 31, 2005 || [[2005 Houston Bowl|Houston Bowl]] || '''W''' || [[Iowa State Cyclones football|Iowa State]] || 27 || 24
|- align=center
| December 19, 2006 || [[2006 Poinsettia Bowl|Poinsettia Bowl]] || '''W''' || [[Northern Illinois Huskies football|NIU]] || 37 || 7
|- align=center
| December 28, 2007 || [[2007 Texas Bowl|Texas Bowl]] || '''W''' || [[Houston Cougars football|Houston]] || 20 || 13
|- align=center
| December 23, 2008 || [[2008 Poinsettia Bowl|Poinsettia Bowl]] || '''W''' || [[2008 Boise State Broncos football team|Boise State]] || 17 || 16
|- align=center
| January 4, 2010 || [[2010 Fiesta Bowl|Fiesta Bowl]]* || '''L''' || [[2009 Boise State Broncos football team|Boise State]] || 10 ||17
|- align=center
| January 1, 2011 || [[2011 Rose Bowl|Rose Bowl]]* || '''W''' || [[2010 Wisconsin Badgers football team|Wisconsin]] || 21 || 19
|- align=center
| December 21, 2011 || [[2011 Poinsettia Bowl|Poinsettia Bowl]] || '''W''' || [[2011 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team|Louisiana Tech]] || 31 || 24
|- align=center
| December 29, 2012 || [[2012 Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl|Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl]] || '''L''' || [[2012 Michigan State Spartans football team|Michigan State]] || 16 || 17
|- align=center
| December 31, 2014 || [[2014 Peach Bowl|Peach Bowl]]** || '''W''' || [[2014 Ole Miss Rebels football team|Ole Miss]] || 42 || 3
|- align=center
| '''Total''' || '''30 bowl games''' || '''14–15–1''' || || ||
|}
<nowiki>*</nowiki> denotes [[Bowl Championship Series|BCS]] game.
<nowiki>**</nowiki> denotes [[College Football Playoff|New Year's Six]] Bowl game.

====Top 25 Finishes====
{| cellpadding="1" border="1" cellspacing="0" style="width:80%;"
|- style="background:#609; text-align:center;"
| <span style="color:white;">'''Year''' || <span style="color:white;">'''Record''' ||<span style="color:white;">'''AP Poll''' || <span style="color:white;">'''UPI/Coaches Poll'''
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[1935 in sports|1935]]||12-1||--||Shared National Championship (w LSU)
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[1936 in sports|1936]]||9-2-2||12||
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[1937 in sports|1937]]||4-4-2||8||
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[1938 in sports|1938]]||11-0||1||Consensus National Championship
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[1951 in sports|1951]]||6-5||11||10
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[1955 in sports|1955]]||9-2||6||6
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[1956 in sports|1956]]||8-3||14||14
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[1958 in sports|1958]]||8-2-1||10||9
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[1959 in sports|1959]]||8-3||7||9
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[2000 NCAA Division I-A football season|2000]]||10-2||21||18
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[2002 NCAA Division I-A football season|2002]]||10-2||23||22
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[2003 NCAA Division I-A football season|2003]]||11-2||25||24
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[2005 NCAA Division I-A football season|2005]]||11-1||11||9
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[2006 NCAA Division I FBS football season|2006]]||11-2||22||21
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season|2008]]||11-2||7||7
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season|2009]]||12-1||6||6
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season|2010]]||13-0||2||2
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season|2011]]||11-2||14||13
|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season|2014]]||12-1||3||3
|-

==Individual Awards==

===Retired numbers===

*5 [[LaDainian Tomlinson]] (2005)
*8 [[Davey O'Brien]] (1939)
*45 [[Sammy Baugh]] (1993)

===National Awards===

{{col-begin}}
{{col-2}}
*'''[[Heisman Trophy]] Winner'''
[[Davey O'Brien]], 1938

*'''[[Heisman Trophy]] finalists'''
[[Sammy Baugh]], 4th in 1936<br>
[[Jim Swink]], 2nd in 1955<br>
[[Kenneth Davis (American football)|Kenneth Davis]], 5th in 1984<br>
[[LaDainian Tomlinson]], 4th in 2000<br>
[[Trevone Boykin]], 4th in 2014
*'''[[Maxwell Award]]'''

[[Davey O'Brien]], 1938

*'''[[Doak Walker Award]]'''
[[LaDainian Tomlinson]], 2000

*'''[[Rimington Trophy]]'''
[[Jake Kirkpatrick]], 2010
{{col-2}}
*'''[[Lott Trophy]]'''
[[Jerry Hughes]], 2009

*'''[[Ted Hendricks Award]]'''
[[Jerry Hughes]], 2009

*'''[[Lou Groza Award]]'''
[[Michael Reeder]], 1995

*'''[[Rudy Award]]'''<br>(Awarded to the Div I football player than best exemplifies <br>Character, Courage, Contribution and Commitment)
[[Drew Combs]], 2008

*'''[[Jim Brown Trophy]]'''
[[LaDainian Tomlinson]], 2000
{{col-end}}

===Coaching Awards===

{{col-begin}}
{{col-2}}
*'''[[Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award]]'''
[[Jim Wacker]], 1984<br>
[[Gary Patterson]], 2009

*'''[[Walter Camp Coach of the Year]]'''
[[Gary Patterson]], 2009<br>
[[Gary Patterson]], 2014

*'''[[George Munger Award]]'''
[[Gary Patterson]], 2009

*'''[[Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year]]'''
[[Gary Patterson]], 2009<br>
[[Gary Patterson]], 2014

*'''[[AFCA Coach of the Year]]'''
[[Gary Patterson]], 2009

{{Col-2}}
*'''[[Touchdown Club of Columbus|The Woody Hayes Trophy]]'''
[[Gary Patterson]], 2009

*'''[[Sporting News College Football Coach of the Year]]'''
[[Jim Wacker]], 1984<br>
[[Gary Patterson]], 2009

*'''[[Associated Press College Football Coach of the Year Award]]'''
[[Gary Patterson]], 2009<br>
[[Gary Patterson]], 2014

*'''[[Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Award]]'''
[[Gary Patterson]], 2009

*'''[[Home Depot Coach of the Year Award]]'''
[[Gary Patterson]], 2014

{{col-end}}

===College Football Hall of Fame inductees===

The following Horned Frogs have been inducted into the [[College Football Hall of Fame]]:
{{col-begin}}
{{col-2}}
[[Ki Aldrich]], Center, 1960<br>
[[Sammy Baugh]], Quarterback, 1951<br>
[[Madison A. "Matty" Bell]], Coach, 1955<br>
[[Darrell Lester]], Center, 1988<br>
[[Bob Lilly]], Tackle, 1981<br>
[[LaDainian Tomlinson]], halfback, 2012<br>
{{col-2}}
[[Rags Matthews]], End, 1971<br>
[[Dutch Meyer]], Coach, 1956<br>
[[Davey O'Brien]], Quarterback, 1955<br>
[[Francis Schmidt]], Coach, 1971<br>
[[Jim Swink]], Halfback, 1980<br>
{{col-end}}

===AP 1st-Team All-Americans===

'''Note:''' Unless otherwise indicated, all hometowns are in Texas.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- style="background:#609; text-align:center;"
| <span style="color:white;">'''Year''' || <span style="color:white;">'''Position''' || <span style="color:white;">'''Jersey #''' || <span style="color:white;">'''Name''' || <span style="color:white;">'''Hometown'''
|- align=center
| [[1927 college football season|1927]] || E || 31 || [[Rags Matthews]] || [[Fort Worth, Texas|Fort Worth]]
|- align=center
| [[1929 college football season|1929]] || G || 44 || [[Mike Brumbelow]] || [[Jacksboro, Texas|Jacksboro]]
|- align=center
| [[1930 college football season|1930]] || HB || 5 || Cy Leland || [[Lubbock, Texas|Lubbock]]
|- align=center
| [[1932 college football season|1932]] || G || 44 || [[Johnny Vaught]] || Fort Worth
|- align=center
| [[1934 college football season|1934]] || C || 22 || [[Darrell Lester]] || Jacksboro
|- align=center
| [[1935 college football season|1935]] || C || 22 || [[Darrell Lester]] || Jacksboro
|- align=center
| [[1935 college football season|1935]] || QB || 45 || [[Sammy Baugh]] || [[Sweetwater, Texas|Sweetwater]]
|- align=center
| [[1936 college football season|1936]] || QB || 45 || [[Sammy Baugh]] || Sweetwater
|- align=center
| [[1937 college football season|1937]] || QB || 8 || [[Davey O'Brien]] || [[Dallas]]
|- align=center
| [[1937 college football season|1937]] || T || 22 || [[I. B. Hale]] || Dallas
|- align=center
| [[1937 college football season|1937]] || C || 48 || [[Ki Aldrich]] || [[Temple, Texas|Temple]]
|- align=center
| [[1938 college football season|1938]] || QB || 8 || [[Davey O'Brien]] || Dallas
|- align=center
| [[1938 college football season|1938]] || T || 22 || [[I. B. Hale]] || Dallas
|- align=center
| [[1938 college football season|1938]] || C || 48 || [[Ki Aldrich]] || [[Temple, Texas|Temple]]
|- align=center
| [[1942 college football season|1942]] || T || 71 || [[Derrell Palmer]] || [[Albany, Texas|Albany]]
|- align=center
| [[1944 college football season|1944]] || T || 32 || Clyde Flowers || [[Perryton, Texas|Perryton]]
|- align=center
| [[1949 college football season|1949]] || QB || 43 || [[Lindy Berry]] || [[Wichita Falls, Texas|Wichita Falls]]
|- align=center
| [[1951 college football season|1951]] || C || 34 || Keith Flowers || [[Perryton, Texas|Perryton]]
|- align=center
| [[1951 college football season|1951]] || QB || 49 || Ray McKown || [[Dumas, Texas|Dumas]]
|- align=center
| [[1951 college football season|1951]] || T || 77 || Doug Conaway || [[Hillsboro, Texas|Hillsboro]]
|- align=center
| [[1955 college football season|1955]] || HB || 23 || [[Jim Swink]] || [[Rusk, Texas|Rusk]]
|- align=center
| [[1955 college football season|1955]] || C || 54 || Hugh Pitts || [[Dumas, Texas|Dumas]]
|- align=center
| [[1956 college football season|1956]] || T || 75 || [[Norman Hamilton]] || [[Lolita, Texas|Vanderbilt]]
|- align=center
| [[1956 college football season|1956]] || HB || 23 || [[Jim Swink]] || [[Rusk, Texas|Rusk]]
|- align=center
| [[1958 college football season|1958]] || T || 75 || [[Don Floyd]] || [[Midlothian, Texas|Midlothian]]
|- align=center
| [[1958 college football season|1958]] || FB || 20 || [[Jack Spikes]] || [[Snyder, Texas|Snyder]]
|- align=center
| [[1960 college football season|1960]] || T || 72 || [[Bob Lilly]] || [[Throckmorton, Texas|Throckmorton]]
|- align=center
| [[1963 college football season|1963]] || FB || 38 || [[Tommy Crutcher]] || [[McKinney, Texas|McKinney]]
|- align=center
| [[1981 NCAA Division I-A football season|1981]] || WR || 7 || Stanley Washington || Dallas
|- align=center
| [[1984 NCAA Division I-A football season|1984]] || RB || 36 || [[Kenneth Davis (American football)|Kenneth Davis]] || [[Temple, Texas|Temple]]
|- align=center
| [[1991 NCAA Division I-A football season|1991]] || TE || 86 || [[Kelly Blackwell]] || [[Richland Hills, Texas|Richland Hills]]
|- align=center
| [[1995 NCAA Division I-A football season|1995]] || K || 17 || [[Michael Reeder]] || [[Sulphur, Louisiana|Sulphur, LA]]
|- align=center
| [[2000 NCAA Division I-A football season|2000]] || RB || 5 || [[LaDainian Tomlinson]] || [[Waco, Texas|Waco]]
|- align=center
| [[2002 NCAA Division I-A football season|2002]] || LB || 44 || [[LaMarcus McDonald]] || [[Waco, Texas|Waco]]
|- align=center
| [[2003 NCAA Division I-A football season|2003]] || K || 9 || [[Nick Browne]] || [[Garland, Texas|Garland]]
|- align=center
| [[2005 NCAA Division I-A football season|2005]] || KR || 17 || [[Cory Rodgers]] || [[Houston]]
|- align=center
| [[2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season|2009]] || DE || 98 || [[Jerry Hughes]] || [[Sugar Land, Texas|Sugar Land]]
|- align=center
| [[2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season|2010]] || S || 3 || [[Tejay Johnson]] || [[Garland, Texas|Garland]]
|- align=center
| '''Total''' || '''39''' || || ||
|}

==Coaches==

===Head coaches===
[[File:Coach Gary Patterson of the TCU Horned Frogs.JPG|thumb|350px|Gary Patterson, current head coach of the TCU Horned Frogs.]]
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- style="background:#609; text-align:center; color:white;"
| '''Years'''
| '''Coach'''
| '''Wins'''
| '''Losses'''
| '''Ties'''
| '''Pct.'''
|-
|[[1897 in sports|1897]]||Joe Field||3||1||0||{{Winning percentage|3|1|0}}
|-
|[[1898 in sports|1898]]||James Morrison||1||3||1||{{Winning percentage|1|3|1}}
|-
|[[1902 in sports|1902]]||H. E. Hildebrand||0||5||1||{{Winning percentage|0|5|1}}
|-
|[[1904 in sports|1904]]||C.E. Cronk||1||4||1||{{Winning percentage|1|4|1}}
|-
|[[1905 in sports|1905]]–[[1907 in sports|1907]]||E.J. Hyde||10||11||2||{{Winning percentage|10|11|2}}
|-
|[[1908 in sports|1908]]–[[1909 in sports|1909]]||J.R. Langley||11||5||1||{{Winning percentage|11|5|1}}
|-
|[[1910 in sports|1910]]||Kemp Lewis||2||6||1||{{Winning percentage|2|6|1}}
|-
|[[1911 in sports|1911]]||Henry W. Lever||4||5||0||{{Winning percentage|4|5|0}}
|-
|[[1912 in sports|1912]]||W.T. Stewart||8||1||0||{{Winning percentage|8|1|0}}
|-
|[[1913 in sports|1913]]||Fred Cahoon||3||1||2||{{Winning percentage|3|1|2}}
|-
|[[1914 in sports|1914]]||[[S. A. Boles]]||4||4||2||{{Winning percentage|4|4|2}}
|-
|[[1915 in sports|1915]]||[[E. Y. Freeland]]||4||5||0||{{Winning percentage|4|5|0}}
|-
|[[1916 in sports|1916]]–[[1917 in sports|1917]]||Milton Daniel||14||4||1||{{Winning percentage|14|4|1}}
|-
|[[1918 in sports|1918]]||E.M. Tipton||4||4||0||{{Winning percentage|4|4|0}}
|-
|[[1919 in sports|1919]]||T.E.D. Hackney||1||7||0||{{Winning percentage|1|7|0}}
|-
|[[1920 in sports|1920]]–[[1921 in sports|1921]]||[[W. L. Driver]]||15||4||1||{{Winning percentage|15|4|1}}
|-
|[[1922 in sports|1922]]||John McKnight||2||5||3||{{Winning percentage|2|5|3}}
|-"
|[[1923 in sports|1923]]–[[1928 in sports|1928]]||[[Madison A. "Matty" Bell|Matty Bell]]||33||17||5||{{Winning percentage|33|17|5}}
|-
|[[1929 in sports|1929]]–[[1933 in sports|1933]]||[[Francis Schmidt]]||45||6||5||{{Winning percentage|45|6|5}}
|-
|[[1934 in sports|1934]]–[[1952 in sports|1952]]||[[Dutch Meyer]]||109||79||13||{{Winning percentage|109|79|13}}
|-
|[[1953 in sports|1953]]–[[1966 in sports|1966]]||[[Abe Martin]]||74||64||7||{{Winning percentage|74|64|7}}
|-
|[[1967 in sports|1967]]–[[1970 in sports|1970]]||[[Fred Taylor (football coach)|Fred Taylor]]||15||25||1||{{Winning percentage|15|25|1}}
|-
|[[1971 in sports|1971]]||[[Jim Pittman]]||3||3||1||{{Winning percentage|3|3|1}}
|-
|[[1971 in sports|1971]]–[[1973 in sports|1973]]||Billy Tohill||11||15||0||{{Winning percentage|11|15|0}}
|-
|[[1974 in sports|1974]]–[[1976 in sports|1976]]||[[Jim Shofner]]||2||31||0||{{Winning percentage|2|31|0}}
|-
|[[1977 in sports|1977]]–[[1982 in sports|1982]]||[[F. A. Dry]]||12||51||3||{{Winning percentage|12|51|3}}
|-
|[[1983 in sports|1983]]–[[1991 in sports|1991]]||[[Jim Wacker]]||40||58||2||{{Winning percentage|40|58|2}}
|-
|[[1992 in sports|1992]]–[[1997 in sports|1997]]||[[Pat Sullivan (American football)|Pat Sullivan]]||24||42||1||{{Winning percentage|24|42|1}}
|-
|[[1998 in sports|1998]]–[[2000 in sports|2000]]||[[Dennis Franchione]]||25||10||0||{{Winning percentage|25|10|0}}
|-
|[[2000 in sports|2000]]– present||[[Gary Patterson]]||131||45||0||{{Winning percentage|131|45|0}}
|}

===Current coaching staff===
{| class="wikitable"
|- "
! Name !! Title
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Gary Patterson]] || [[Head Coach]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
| Jarrett Anderson || [[Offensive Coordinator|Offensive Line Coach]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
| Dick Bumpas || [[Defensive Coordinator]] / [[Defensive Line]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
| Rusty Burns || Outside Receivers
|- style="text-align:center;"
| Demontie Cross || [[Linebacker]]s
|- style="text-align:center;"
| Sonny Cumbie || [[Offensive Coordinator|Co-Offensive Coordinator]] / [[Quarterback]]s Coach
|- style="text-align:center;"
| Zarnell Fitch || Director of High School Relations
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Chad Glasgow]] || [[Safety (American and Canadian football position)|Safeties]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
| Matt Lewis || Director of Football Operations
|- style="text-align:center;"
| Curtis Luper || Running Backs
|- style="text-align:center;"
| Doug Meacham || [[Offensive Coordinator|Co-Offensive Coordinator]] / Inside Wide Receivers
|- style="text-align:center;"
| Dominique Neville || Asst Director of Football Operations
|- style="text-align:center;"
| Kenny Perry || Cornerbacks Coach
|- style="text-align:center;"
| Dan Sharp || Special Teams / Dir Player Personnel
|- style="text-align:center;"
| Jake Brown || Graduate Assistant - Offense
|- style="text-align:center;"
| David Gable || Associate Director of Sports Medicine
|- style="text-align:center;"
| Paul Gonzales || Graduate Assistant - Defense
|- style="text-align:center;"
| Bryson Oliver || Graduate Assistant - Offense
|- style="text-align:center;"
| Don Sommer || Head strength and conditioning coach
|- style="text-align:center;"
| Jason Teague || Graduate Assistant - Defense
|- style="text-align:center;"
| Jeremy Modkins || Defensive Analyst
|- style="text-align:center;"
| Matt Parker || Assistant strength and conditioning coach
|- style="text-align:center;"
|}

== Recruiting ==
Texas Christian University Horned Frogs Football Scout.com team recruiting rankings:

{|
!
Class
!
Scout.com

Rank
!
Commits
!
Top Commit
|
|-
!
2013
|44
|23
|Kyle Hicks
|
|-
!
2012
|38
|24
|Griffin Gilbert
|
|-
!
2011
|28
|25
|Ladarius Brown
|
|-
!
2010
|63
|18
|Sam Carter
|
|-
!
2009
|54
|20
|Malcolm Williams
|
|-
!
2008
|114
|15
|Walker Dille
|
|-
!
2007
|73
|24
|Jeremy Kerley
|
|-
!
2006
|73
|19
|Wayne Daniels
|
|-
!
2005
|63
|21
|Corderra Hunter
|
|-
!
2004
|70
|21
|Quincy Butler
|
|-
!
2003
|66
|20
|James Battle
|
|-
!
2002
|61
|10
|Robert Merrill
|
|-
!
|}

==Rivalries==
Because TCU was a member of the [[Southwest Conference]] for 72 years, rivalries remain with many of the schools that once participated in that conference. Most of former Southwest Conference members are located within the state of [[Texas]].

===Southern Methodist University===
{{Main|Battle for the Iron Skillet}}
This rivalry is prominent for both schools, as both are located in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and were long-time members of the SWC before its dissolution. TCU leads the football series with [[SMU Mustangs football|SMU]], 45–40-7.<ref>[http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/mountainwest/texas_christian/opponents_records.php?teamid=3049 CFB Data Warehouse Head-to-Head TCU vs. SMU]</ref> The SMU - TCU football game is called "The [[Battle for the Iron Skillet]]", with the winning team gaining possession of a ceremonial iron skillet. Since 1915, when SMU was founded and began football competition, the game has not been played in only three years when both fielded football teams — 1919, 1920 and 2006. The schools are scheduled to compete through at least 2016. Because they are no longer members of the same conference, annual meetings may or may not be scheduled after 2016.

===Baylor University===
{{main|Baylor–TCU football rivalry}}
TCU trails with [[Baylor Bears football|Baylor]] at 51–52-7 in one of the oldest rivalries in college football. This rivalry harkens back to 1899 in the early days of TCU football when TCU was known as AddRan Christian University. When the series started, TCU (then AddRan) and Baylor were both located in [[Waco, Texas]]. One well-remembered incident in the rivalry occurred in 1971. TCU coach [[Jim Pittman]] collapsed and died on the sideline during the 1971 TCU at Baylor football game, the only time in collegiate history that a coach died while a game was in the progress of being played. TCU-Baylor is one of the most played rivalries in all of NCAA College Football despite a near 16-year break after the collapse of the [[Southwest Conference]] in 1995. Some TCU fans have long held a deep resentment resulting from Baylor being asked to take a spot in the new [[Big 12 Conference]] ahead of TCU, in 1996. The two schools concluded a home-and-home series in 2007, and have continued their rivalry in Fort Worth in 2010 and Waco in 2011. TCU and Baylor have returned to being conference mates in the Big 12 with yearly football games scheduled. In 2013 and 2014, TCU lost to Baylor by 3 both times, 41-38 in 2013 and 61-58 in 2014, and in 2014 lead 58-37 in the last 10 minutes, and this loss proved to kill TCU National Championship hopes.

===Texas Tech University===
{{Main|TCU–Texas Tech football rivalry}}
The football series dates back to 1926, 23–30–3.<ref>[http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/mountainwest/texas_christian/opponents_records.php?teamid=3211 CFB Data Warehouse Head-to-Head TCU vs. Texas Tech]</ref> TCU was the first Southwest Conference team to play Texas Tech. The [[Texas Tech University Goin' Band from Raiderland]] was the first college marching band to travel to an away game when Will Rogers financed their trip to accompany the Red Raiders to Fort Worth.<ref>http://www.orgs.ttu.edu/goinband/History.asp</ref><ref>http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/big12/texas_tech/yearly_results.php?year=1925</ref>

After the collapse of the Southwest Conference, Texas Tech was the first of the schools that joined the [[Big 12 Conference]] in 1996 to schedule a non-conference game with TCU. This first post-Southwest Conference game between TCU and its former conference mate was played in the regular season in 2004.

Prior to Texas Tech joining the SWC, a traveling trophy was exchanged between the Horned Frogs and Red Raiders. The trophy was of a miniature saddle and the game between the teams was dubbed "The West Texas Championship."<ref>http://lubbockonline.com/editorial-columnists/2011-10-16/pettit-tcus-return-re-stirs-memories-days-left-behind#.Tpr9WpuAqU8</ref> TCU and Texas Tech return to being conference mates, competing in football annually, in 2012. In 2014, 109 points combined was put up, in a 82-27 rout by TCU.

===Other rivalries===

Former [[Southwest Conference|SWC]] rivals include [[Houston Cougars football|Houston]], [[Rice Owls football|Rice]], [[Arkansas Razorbacks football|Arkansas]], and [[Texas A&M football|Texas A&M]]. While in the [[Conference USA|C-USA]], TCU engaged in new rivalries with [[Louisville Cardinals football|Louisville]] and [[Southern Miss Golden Eagles football|Southern Miss]]. In 2005, after joining (and winning) the [[Mountain West Conference|Mountain West]], TCU immediately started new rivalries with [[Utah Utes football|Utah]] and [[BYU Cougars football|BYU]], as they were the conference's top two programs. Because the Mountain West wasn't an automatic qualifier in the BCS, these 3 teams were always battling for an At-Large spot in one of the 4 BCS Bowls. [[Boise State football|Boise State]] was also in contention for one of the At-Large BCS spots, which led to a rivalry between TCU and Boise St. In 2011, after splitting bowl games in the 2008 and 2009 seasons (and Utah and BYU defecting to the Pac-12 and Independence/WCC, respectively), Boise State moved over from the [[Western Athletic Conference|WAC]] to join TCU in the Mountain West. Because Boise State replaced Utah in the conference schedule, the TCU-BSU game was supposed to be played in Ft. Worth, but as TCU was leaving for the [[Big East Conference (1979–2013)|Big East]] in 2012, the conference voted to have the game take place in Boise; this led to even more tension between the two schools. In fall 2010, after announcing intentions of moving to the Big East in 2012, fans of TCU and [[West Virginia Mountaineers football|West Virginia]], the class of the Big East, began debating which team would win the conference during their first season together, the "unproven" BCS Buster (TCU) or the established Big East power (WVU). In fall 2011, after Texas A&M and Missouri announced their intentions of moving to the SEC for 2012, TCU and West Virginia accepted invitations to join the [[Big 12 Conference|Big 12]] in that year. This only furthered the TCU-WVU debate, which has led to a small new rivalry. Also, with TCU replacing Texas A&M in the Big 12, their former rivalry sparked back up within the state through recruiting, press, and the fans, although not on the field.

===All-time Records versus Rivals===
<center>
{| cellpadding="1" border="1" cellspacing="0" style="width:100%;"
|-
! style="background:#660099;"|<span style="color:white;">Team
! style="background:#660099;"|<span style="color:white;">Traveling trophy
! style="background:#660099;"|<span style="color:white;">Games Played
! style="background:#660099;"|<span style="color:white;">TCU Win
! style="background:#660099;"|<span style="color:white;">TCU Loss
! style="background:#660099;"|<span style="color:white;">Ties
! style="background:#660099;"|<span style="color:white;">Win %

! style="background:#660099;"|<span style="color:white;">First Meeting
! style="background:#660099;"|<span style="color:white;">Last Meeting
! style="background:#660099;"|<span style="color:white;">Next scheduled Meeting

|- style="text-align:center;"
|[[Baylor Bears football|Baylor Bears]] || || 110 ||51 || 52 || 7 || {{Winning percentage|51|51|1}}|| 1899|| 2014 lost 58-61 ||2015 @TCU
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[SMU Mustangs football|SMU Mustangs]] || [[Battle for the Iron Skillet|Iron Skillet]] || 94 ||47 || 40 || 7 || {{Winning percentage|47|40|7}}|| 1915 || 2014 won 56-0 ||2015 @ TCU
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Texas A&M Aggies Football|Texas A&M Aggies]] || || 92 || 29 || 56 || 7 || {{Winning percentage|29|56|7}}||1897 || 2001 lost 9-28 ||
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Texas Longhorns football|Texas Longhorns]] || || 84 || 21 || 62 || 1 || {{Winning percentage|21|62|1}}||1897 || 2013 lost 7-30 || 2014 @Texas
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Rice Owls football|Rice Owls]] || || 79 || 41 || 35 || 3 || {{Winning percentage|41|35|3}}||1914 || 2000 won 37-0 ||
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Arkansas Razorbacks football|Arkansas Razorbacks]] || || 68|| 23 || 43 || 2 || {{winning percentage|23|43|2}} || 1920 || 1991 lost 21-22 || 2016 @ TCU
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Texas Tech Red Raiders football|Texas Tech Red Raiders]]|| [[Saddle Trophy]] || 56 || 23 || 30 || 3 || {{Winning percentage|23|30|3}}|| 1926 || 2014 won 82-27 || 2015 @Texas Tech
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Houston Cougars football|Houston Cougars]] || || 25 || 12 || 13 || 0 || {{Winning percentage|12|13}}|| 1976 || 2007 won 20-13 ||
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[BYU Cougars football|BYU Cougars]] || || 11 || 6 || 5 || 0 || {{Winning percentage|6|5}}|| 1987 || 2011 won 38-28 ||
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Utah Utes football|Utah Utes]] || || 8 || 3 || 5 || 0 || {{Winning percentage|3|5}}|| 1996 || 2010 won 47-7 ||
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[Boise State football|Boise State Broncos]] || || 4 || 2 || 2 || 0 || {{Winning percentage|2|2}}|| 2003 || 2011 won 36-35 ||
|}
</center>

==Future non-conference opponents==
TCU has released a partial list of non-conference opponents for the near future:<ref>{{cite web
| title = TCU Football Future Schedule
| url=http://gofrogs.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/092804aab.html
| accessdate = 2008-12-10 }}</ref>
<ref name="nonconfopp">{{cite web| title=TCU Horned Frogs Football Schedules and Future Schedules|publisher=fbschedules.com| url=http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa/mtn-west/tcu-horned-frogs.php|accessdate=2012-02-25}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#660099; text-align:center;"
|<span style="color:white;"> '''2015''' ||<span style="color:white;"> '''2016''' ||<span style="color:white;"> '''2017''' ||<span style="color:white;"> '''2018''' ||<span style="color:white;"> '''2019'''||<span style="color:white;"> '''2020'''||<span style="color:white;"> '''2021'''
|-align=center
| vs [[SMU Mustangs football|SMU]] || at [[SMU Mustangs football|SMU]] || vs [[SMU Mustangs football|SMU]] || vs [[Ohio State Buckeyes football|Ohio State]] || at [[Ohio State Buckeyes football|Ohio State]] || at [[California Golden Bears football|California]] || vs [[California Golden Bears football|California]]
|-align=center
| vs [[Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks football|Stephen F. Austin]] || vs [[Arkansas Razorbacks football|Arkansas]] || at [[Arkansas Razorbacks football|Arkansas]] || at [[SMU Mustangs football|SMU]] || || ||
|-align=center
| at [[Minnesota Golden Gophers|Minnesota]] || vs [[South Dakota State Jackrabbits|South Dakota State]] || || || || ||
|}

==Horned Frogs in Professional Football==
[[File:Tomlinson warming up.jpg|thumb|LaDainian Tomlinson with the Chargers]]

===Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees===
*[[Sammy Baugh]], QB (1963) [[Washington Redskins]] 1937–1952
*[[Bob Lilly]], DT (1980) [[Dallas Cowboys]] 1961–1974

===National Football League Most Valuable Player award===
*[[LaDainian Tomlinson]], RB (2006) [[San Diego Chargers]]

===Super Bowl Most Valuable Player award===
*[[Larry Brown (cornerback)|Larry Brown]], CB (1996) [[Dallas Cowboys]]

===Canadian Football League Most Outstanding Player award===
*[[Casey Printers]], QB (2004) [[BC Lions]]

===Grey Cup Most Valuable Player award===
*[[Jason Tucker]], WR (2003) [[Edmonton Eskimos]]

===Horned Frogs Currently in the NFL===
*[[Jason Verrett]], CB [[San Diego Chargers]]
*[[Drew Coleman]], CB [[Jacksonville Jaguars]]
*[[Marvin White]], FS [[Cincinnati Bengals]]
*[[David Hawthorne]], LB [[New Orleans Saints]]
*[[Aaron Brown (running back)|Aaron Brown]], RB [[Detroit Lions]]
*[[Jason Phillips (linebacker)|Jason Phillips]], LB [[Carolina Panthers]]
*[[Jerry Hughes]], OLB [[Buffalo Bills]]
*[[Daryl Washington]], LB [[Arizona Cardinals]]
*[[Clint Gresham]], LS [[Seattle Seahawks]]
*[[Marshall Newhouse]], OT, [[Green Bay Packers]]
*[[Andy Dalton (American football)|Andy Dalton]], QB [[Cincinnati Bengals]]
*[[Jeremy Kerley]], WR/KR, [[New York Jets]]
*[[Colin Jones (American football)|Colin Jones]], S [[Carolina Panthers]]
*[[Marcus Cannon]], OG [[New England Patriots]]
*[[Malcolm Williams]], CB [[New England Patriots]]
*[[Bert Johnson (American football)|Bart Johnson]], WR [[Cincinnati Bengals]]
*Curtis Clay, WR [[Dallas Cowboys]]
*[[Jimmy Young (American Football)|Jimmy Young]], WR [[Pittsburgh Steelers]]
*[[Tank Carder]] ILB [[Cleveland Browns]]
* Josh Boyce WR New England Patriots
* Stansly Maponga DE Atlanta Falcons
* Waymon James TB Tennessee Titans

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==External links==
* {{Official website|http://gofrogs.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/tcu-m-footbl-body.html}}

{{TCU Horned Frogs football navbox}}
{{Big 12 Conference football navbox}}
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TCU is a worthless football program that was beaten by Baylor by a score of 61-58

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