1951 TCU Horned Frogs football team
| 1951 TCU Horned Frogs football | |
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Southwest Conference champion | |
Cotton Bowl Classic, L 7–20 vs. Kentucky | |
| Conference | Southwest Conference |
| Ranking | |
| AP | No. 11 |
| 1951 record | 6–5 (5–1 SWC) |
| Head coach | Dutch Meyer |
| Home stadium |
Amon G. Carter Stadium (Capacity: 33,000) |
| 1951 Southwest Conference football standings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #11 TCU $ | 5 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #9 Baylor | 4 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 8 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Texas | 3 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rice | 3 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Texas A&M | 1 | – | 3 | – | 2 | 5 | – | 3 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Arkansas | 2 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SMU | 1 | – | 4 | – | 1 | 3 | – | 6 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1951 TCU Horned Frogs football team represented Texas Christian University (TCU) in the 1951 college football season. The Horned Frogs finished the season 6–5 overall and 5–1 in the Southwest Conference. The team was coached by Dutch Meyer in his eighteenth year as head coach. The Frogs played their home games in Amon G. Carter Stadium, which is located on campus in Fort Worth, Texas. They were invited to the Cotton Bowl Classic where they lost to Kentucky by a score of 7–20.
Schedule
| Date | Time | Opponent# | Rank# | Site | TV | Result | Attendance | ||
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| September 22 | Kansas* | Amon G. Carter Stadium • Fort Worth, TX | L 13–27 | - | |||||
| September 29 | at No. 12 Nebraska* | Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, NE | W 28–7 | 36,000 | |||||
| October 6 | at Arkansas | War Memorial Stadium • Little Rock, AR | W 17–7 | - | |||||
| October 13 | at Texas Tech | Jones Stadium • Lubbock, TX | L 19–33 | - | |||||
| October 20 | No. 6 Texas A&M | Amon G. Carter Stadium • Fort Worth, TX | W 20–14 | - | |||||
| October 27 | at No. 6 USC* | Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA | L 26–28 | - | |||||
| November 3 | at No. 8 Baylor | Baylor Stadium • Waco, TX (The Revivalry) | W 20–7 | - | |||||
| November 17 | at No. 15 Texas | No. 13 | Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX | L 21–32 | 55,000 | ||||
| November 24 | No. 18 Rice | Amon G. Carter Stadium • Fort Worth, TX | W 22–6 | - | |||||
| December 1 | SMU | No. 11 | Amon G. Carter Stadium • Fort Worth, TX (Battle for the Iron Skillet) | W 13–2 | 35,000 | ||||
| January 1 | vs. No. 17 Kentucky | No. 11 | Cotton Bowl • Dallas, Texas (Cotton Bowl) | L 7–20 | 75,349 | ||||
*Non-conference game.  Homecoming. #Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Central Time. | |||||||||
References
- ↑ "1951 TCU Horned Frogs". Retrieved 2 August 2016.
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