Frog DJ
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Leap - When I turned 11 in 59 my parents asked me what I wanted for my birthday. I told them tickets to see TCU play UT in Austin.Please bear with an old-timer who cherishes the 3 times Frogs knocked Texas out of the national championship:
Nov 15, 1941-- TCU 14, Texas 7.
Nov 14, 1959-- TCU 14, Texas 9.
Nov 18, 1961-- TCU 6, Texas 0.
The Horns are my favorite team to dislike, and all 3 were played in Austin--- sweet, sweet memories.
We got up early that morning, and a Blue Norther was rolling in. We crept along I-35 until we got almost all the way to Waco, and Dad lost control of the car on a patch of black ice.
He safely stopped the car, but my mother insisted he turn around and go home. I was heartbroken - especially when the Frogs won the game while Dad I listened to Kern Tips on the radio.
To add insult to injury Harold Taft announced on his Channel 5 weather report that night that the ice accumulations stopped just south of Waco.
Go Frogs!