BOWLS TCU has advanced to seven bowl games in the last eight seasons. The Horned Frogs were 14th in the final 2005 Bowl Championship Series standings. It was the 20th time TCU has appeared in the BCS standings, the most of any school playing in a conference without an automatic BCS bid. Football BOWL GAMES 1936 Sugar Bowl 1937 Cotton Bowl TCU 3, LSU 2 • January 1, 1936 TCU 16, Marquette 6 • January 1, 1937 NEW ORLEANS, LA. — Bernie Moore, coach of the LSU foot- DALLAS — With a sling-back attack that whipped over a ball team, was skeptical that TCU’s 3 to 2 victory in the Sug- field goal and two touchdowns in the first 25 minutes of play ar Bowl game was a conclusive test of the squads. “My con- and with a sturdy defense that piled up the Marquette clusion of the game was that the slippery field eliminated at Golden Avalanche, TCU captured a spectacular football game least 30 percent of the offensive power of both teams,” he here this New Year’s Day. The score in the Cotton Bowl clas- said. Dutch Meyer, coach of TCU, said he thought the contest sic was 16-6. before a capacity crowd of 35,000 was the “finest I’ve ever So sudden, sharp and dazzling was the sweep of action of the battle that 15,000 spec- seen played in the rain.” tators, who braved threatening weather, forgot the gray gloom of the afternoon. Led by Sammy Baugh, who out-passed and outplayed “Buzz” Buivid to cinch his claim to the title Yesterday’s “baseball score” game was a thriller which kept the spectators in their seats of the greatest passer of the season, the despite a slow rain which fell throughout the second half ... LSU scored in the second quar- Texans uncorked an offense that flared into ter after passes and runs brought the ball to the TCU two-inch line where it changed hands long gains both on the ground and in the air. on downs. When (Sammy) Baugh attempted to pass from behind the goal line he stepped Although it was Baugh who paced the over the end zone, automatically giving LSU a safety for a two-point lead. The Texans came attack and won the attention of the crowd, back in the same period to recover a it was L.D. Meyer who did the real dam- Louisiana fumble on the Louisiana 40 and age... pushed down to the LSU 16. Taldon Manton then kicked a field goal from the Tiger 26. He scored all of TCU’s 16 points. He From that point on the game was a battle of kicked a 33-yard field goal for the first three mighty defensives... points in the opening minutes. Before the first quarter had ended, Meyer collaborated It was the third time in as many meet- with Sambo on a 55-yard pass-and-run gain ings that kicked field goals have figured for the first Frog touchdown, and in the sec- vitally in TCU-LSU football games. In 1931 ond quarter he took an 18-yard heave from the Frogs defeated the Tigers, 3 to 0, and Vic Montgomery for the last score. Meyer the following season they tied, 3-3 ... No even converted after the first touchdown. more spectacular and engrossing football was ever played under such adverse condi- A 60-yard punt return by Art Guepe in the tions as existed here. first quarter accounted for all of Marquette’s points ... Before the game was half over Ordinarily mud battles are dull, shoving Coach Dutch Meyer, feeling safe behind the contests, but that was not the case in this 10-point lead, sent in most of his reserves ... Sugar Bowl scrap ... TCU played most of the TCU 16, Marquette 6 Baugh was on the bench for nearly a quarter game minus the services of three of her TCU 10 6 0 0 — 16 and was only reinserted in the closing min- brightest stars — Left Halfback George Marquette 6 0 0 0 — 6 utes when the crowd howled to see him one Kline, All-American Center Darrell Lester Attendance — 15,000 last time. and Halfback Rex Clark ... Clark played only TCU 3, LSU 2 one down and that was by the courtesy of Team Statistics Fort Worth Star-Telegram TCU MU TCU 0300— 3 Coach Meyer who wanted the injured senior LSU 0200— 2 star to be able to say he played in the 1936 First Downs 16 10 Attendance — 35,000 Rushes-yards 34-169 32-55 Sugar Bowl game ... Baugh made the longest Passing yards 149 134 run of the day — a 44-yard gallop. Team Statistics Return yards 81 109 TCU LSU Passes 20-9-3 21-11-3 Fort Worth Star-Telegram Punts 4-32.5 6-39.5 First downs 6 9 Fumbles-lost 1-0 1-0 Rushes-yards 29-121 45-120 Penalties-yards 5-35 3-25 Passing yards 54 59 Return yards 31 42 Individual Statistics Passes 8-3-1 21-3-3 Rushing — TCU: McClure 5-48, Roberts 11-46, Punts 14-46.0 13-44.7 Baugh 2-28, Montgomery 4-26, McCall 5-17, Fumbles-Lost 2-1 3-2 Clifford 1-4, Hall 1-3, Wilkinson 2-2, Blackmon 2- Penalties-yards 4-20 3-33 minus 1, O'Brien 1-minus 4. Marquette: Guepe (Art) 12-31, Cuff 7-30, Guepe (Al) 1-2, Buivid 12-(- Individual Statistics 8). Rushing — TCU: Lawrence 6-54, Baugh 22-45, Passing — TCU: Baugh 5-13-2, 100 yards, Manton 14-15, Kline 1-6, Harrell 3-1, Roberts 1- O'Brien 3-6-1, 33 yards, Montgomery 1-1-0, 16 1, McCall 1-0, Montgomery 1-minus 1. LSU: yards. Marquette: Buivid 9-18-3, 111 yards, Crass 15-34, Reed 6-29, Fatheree 6-117, Mickal Guepe (Art) 2-3-0, 23 yards. 8-16, Seago 3-13, Bowman 6-10, Kohm 1-1. Receiving — TCU: Meyer 3-79, McCall 2-32, Passing — TCU: Baugh 2-7-1, 29 yards, Roach 2-26, McClure 1-7, Montgomery 1-5. Lawrence 1-1-0, 25 yards. LSU: Mickal 2-14-3, Marquette: Cuff 3-30, Anderson 3-14, Buivid 2- 36 yards, Crass 1-7-0, 23 yards. 23, Guepe (Art) 1-41, Guepe (Al) 1-19, Cooper 1- Receiving — TCU: Walls 1-25, Meyer 1-18, 7. Lawrence 1-11. LSU: Barrett 3-59. 172 2006 TCU Football Media Guide BOWL GAMES 1939 Sugar Bowl 1942 Orange Bowl TCU 15, Carnegie Tech 7 • January 2, 1939 Georgia 40, TCU 26 • January 1, 1942 NEW ORLEANS, LA. — It was with power, passes and kicking MIAMI, FLA. — In the wildest, weirdest football battle ever that the Christians made the two touchdowns and one field waged in this corner of the country, the Georgia Bulldogs goal that enabled them to win, 15-7. Carnegie’s most consis- outscored the courageous TCU Horned Frogs 40-26 ... Coach tent method of attack was a bristling, quick-starting and Wally Butts’ fast team, well-equipped on ground and in the hard-hitting offense, but it was with a brilliant 38-yard pass air, almost chased the Frogs off the field for 35 minutes... The in the last seconds of the first half that the Skibos scored ... score mounted to 40-7 with only a few minutes played in the The second half started with the Pittsburghers leading, 7-6. second half. The first time they got possession of the hoghide the Frogs But the Frogs are not quitters ... Everything was against them. They couldn’t hold the proved irresistible. Moving with giant strides, they went 80 enemy, they couldn’t move themselves and they were battered and weary from their empty- yards and a touchdown on five plays without losing posses- handed efforts. But there was too much tra- dition behind those purple shirts. Suddenly, sions. almost as if a fresh wind had blown into the stadium, the tide turned. They knocked over TCU punted one time. That fact alone three touchdowns in rapid order. They indicates accurately how fearfully effective turned back every Georgia thrust. And at was the ground-gaining maneuvers of the the end, they were only five yards from big white-shirted representatives ... The one another score ... At the end it was the Purple punt was by the second string in the second team for which the gathering stood and quarter and it figured in making TCU’s first cheered. The great comeback in the last 25 touchdown ... When the Skibos punted out, minutes saved the Frogs from humiliation. the TCU regulars took over and went 48 yards on 11 plays to take a 6-0 lead ... Bruce Alford was the Frog star ... He blocked a punt, he made two great catches Carnegie took the next kickoff and went for touchdowns. He threw the most vicious to town with big, fast and tough George tackles on the field ... Replacements kept Muha doing most of the dirty work ... Earl coming in but nothing seemed to halt the Clark intercepted a pass and ran 25 yards to devastating Bulldog attack ... After the rest the Carnegie 35 yard-line, but Durward period, Texas supporters hoped for a rally. Horner, a TCU end, had been offsides so the But Georgia stepped out and banged 80 play was called back ... It was on fourth yards for still another touchdown that prom- down of this series of plays that Petey ised to make it a rout ..