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 | Southwest Conference |
Record | 12–1 (5–1 SWC) |
Head coach |
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Offensive scheme | Meyer spread |
Home stadium | Amon G. Carter Stadium |
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Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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.
The Williamson System, recognized by the NCAA as a "major selector" of national championships,[1] ranked TCU number one in its final post-bowl rankings.[2]
TCU was led by second-year head coach
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…"[3]
SMU scored the first 14 points of the game. TCU, led by
Even with the loss to SMU, who later lost to Stanford in the 1936 Rose Bowl,
After the bowls, TCU ended the season ranked number one in the Williamson System final rankings.[2] However, the system's creator wrote "there was no undisputable national champion in 1935" in his column accompanying the final rankings.[2] SMU finished second and LSU third in the final Williamson rankings.[2] The NCAA records book erroneously credits TCU and LSU as Williamson System co-national champions for the season.[2][1] Southern Methodist University[5] and the University of Minnesota[6] were selected as national champions by other selectors.
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 | [7] | |
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 | [8] | |
November 2 | at Baylor | W 28–0 | |||
November 8 | at Loyola (LA)* | W 14–0 | 6,000 | [9] | |
November 16 | at Texas | W 28–0 | [10] | ||
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
- ^ a b 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 c d e Williamson, Paul B. (January 16, 1936). "Frogs Rated First In Final Grid Standings; S.M.U. Mustangs Placed Second By Williamson". Fort Worth Star–Telegram. Fort Worth, Texas. Retrieved January 2, 2023.
No Undisputable National Champions Picked; Sugar Bowl Game One of Best
- ^ ISBN 1-887761-04-7.
- ^ "1936 Game Recap". Archived from the original on September 22, 2010. Retrieved November 5, 2015.
- ^ Dickinson and Houlgate systems
- ^ Boand, Litkenhous and Poling systems
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- ^ "1935 Texas Christian Horned Frogs". College Football at Sports-Reference.com.