Fall 2010
TCU agreed to stay for 10 years when it moved to Fort Worth in 1910. But the booming city and the small university found such delights in each other that the association is stronger than ever, 100 years later.
Spring 2010
Every university today distributes viewbooks, brochures and advertisements to publicize its many advantages to prospective students. But marketing the university isn’t a new concept at TCU. Here’s TCU’s 1903 pitch.
Spring 2010
Alums recall the hilarity and hijinks that came with wearing Addy the Frog and SuperFrog costumes.
Spring 2009
All that’s left of Fort Worth’s first public golf course are the legends — and an old bridge you’ve probably walked across.
Winter 2008
The first issue of TCU’s university magazine opened with a story nearly five decades old. How appropriate.
Fall 2008
It’s been seven decades since TCU’s only undefeated, untied team ruled college football. Led by their three All-Americans Davey O’Brien, Ki Aldrich and I.B. Hale, the 1938 Frogs were 11-0 and undisputed national champions. This season as TCU Athletics celebrates the 70th anniversary of arguably the Frogs’ great team ever and inducts the entire squad into the Lettermen’s Hall of Fame, here are 38 things you may not know about the 1938 National Champion Horned Frogs.
Fall 2008
Two new sessions — Eco and London — give students more reasons to love being a Horned Frog.
Fall 2008
The yearbook advisor discovered a hidden treasure amid the rubble of the Brown-Lupton Student Center. With four TCU offspring, she found that memories — and a lot more — will stand the test of time.
Fall 2008
TCU’s first-year program goes across the pond for the first time.
Summer 2008
In March and April, TCU and Brite Divinity School found themselves in the middle of a flap tied to the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. Brite was to present its Black Church Leader Award to retired pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Chicago. But controversy ensued after Wright, former pastor to presidential candidate Barack Obama, made some questionable comments just a week prior. The event was moved off campus and the award presented privately to Wright the following month. The whole ordeal made national news. But such hullabaloo is nothing new to us Horned Frogs. Here’s a smattering of TCU “to-dos” through the years.
Six longtime TCU faculty and staff share what stands out after decades of service. The common thread? Students are at the heart of every memory, every triumph, every legacy worth preserving.
In 1971, TCU was the place where the Grateful Dead cemented their reputation as a touring band.
The 1948 presidential election when Truman beat Dewey — we stayed up all night listening to the results. Richard Collier ’51 During the student body train trip in 1957 to Little Rock for the TCU-Arkansas football game, armed troops were visible all over Little Rock — scary! President Eisenhower had sent federal troops to enforce
TCU-Kansas gridiron meetups have a storied past, but what happens when Les Miles joins the party?
