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Fabulous Five
You have to go back to 1935 to find a TCU home game with both teams ranked higher nationally than what the No. 4 Horned Frogs and No. 16 Utah are ranked heading into Saturday’s game. A look at five big games TCU has played in Fort Worth:Nov. 30, 1929TCU 7, SMU 7A record-breaking crowd of 21,000 at Clark Field witnessed a late TCU scoring drive that gave the Horned Frogs (9-0-1) their first Southwest Conference championship. SMU, which entered the game 6-0-3, scored early in the third quarter. On TCU’s score-tying drive, the Mustangs held off three Horned Frogs scoring attempts from inside the 2-yard line before quarterback Howard Grubbs broke the goal line. Harlos Green’s extra-point kick gave TCU the conference title. Nov. 30, 1935SMU 20, TCU 14The matchup billed as the Southwest Conference’s "Game of the First Half of the Century" featured No. 1-ranked teams: TCU in the Williamson Rating System, SMU in the Dickinson rankings. A standing-room-only crowd of more than 40,000 fans plus sportswriters from across the country came to Amon G. Carter Stadium to watch the 10-0 teams battle for a Rose Bowl berth. SMU led 14-0 before Sammy Baugh brought the Horned Frogs back to tie the score. The Mustangs scored the winning points on a fake punt. SMU lost in the Rose Bowl, while TCU defeated LSU 3-2 in the Sugar Bowl to earn the Williamson national championship.Oct. 29, 1938TCU 39, Baylor 7More than 33,000 fans filled the seats and grassy areas behind the end zones to watch two of the nation’s top quarterbacks — TCU’s Davey O’Brien and Baylor’s "Bullet Bill" Patterson — lead teams with Southwest Conference and national title hopes. The Horned Frogs (5-0) led 13-7 at halftime, but O’Brien — who won the Heisman Trophy that season — threw three second-half touchdown passes as TCU dropped Baylor to 4-1-1. TCU won its final four games for the conference title, then defeated Carnegie Tech in the Sugar Bowl to win the school’s second national championship, finishing No. 1 in The Associated Press, Williamson and Helms rankings.Nov. 29, 1947TCU 19, SMU 19SMU came into Fort Worth with a 9-0 record and contending with Notre Dame and Michigan for the national championship. Mustangs all-purpose star Doak Walker turned in one of his finest performances, scoring two touchdowns while rushing for 119 yards, passing for 136 yards and accounting for 206 yards on kickoff and punt returns. TCU (4-4-1) took a 19-13 lead with 1:40 left in the game, but Walker returned the kickoff to TCU’s 35 to set up Gil Johnson’s touchdown pass to Sid Halliday with 20 seconds remaining. Walker’s PAT attempt, however, was wide, and the teams tied 19-19. SMU tied Penn State in the Cotton Bowl and finished third in the final Associated Press rankings.Sept. 16, 2006TCU 12, Texas Tech 3It was a nonconference game, but the No. 20 Horned Frogs drew their first sellout in 22 years with a crowd of 45,647. TCU improved to 3-0 on the season, extended the nation’s longest winning streak to 13 games and took a major step up in national respect by shutting down No. 24 Texas Tech. The Red Raiders, who had hung 70 points on TCU two years earlier, were held without a touchdown in a game for the first time since 2000. "We gave them too much. We wanted to pitch a shutout," Frogs coach Gary Patterson said afterward. "We’ve been waiting for this one for a long time."
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