RollToad
Baylor is Trash.
Just to be clear, we were playing Baylor, right?
Fear the Lavender....
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SwissArmyFrog
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DallasFrog
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Pretty sure that's my dad (on the ground) in the original pic... 
Austintxfrog94
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My apologies. I can’t imagine being there and/or involved with TCU during that event.
TopFrog
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Alec?
TopFrog
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ShadowFrog
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Me too, arrived ‘77 August for band basic training 2 weeks before the rest of campus. Drove right up the rear of Clark hall & offloaded my crap from dads 1973 Malibu & reported to duty marching my scrawny little butt every day from 0800–not for the faint of heart tho we did have some fainters. Halftime in September was ShowTime when we marched in heavy wool uniforms, sweatin’ Balls, already down 45-0 on scoreboard.
Good ole daze......
ShreveFrog
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Pretty sure that's my dad (on the ground) in the original pic...
#75 Lloyd Draper? Hey, it looked like slippery footing, right Lloyd?
ShreveFrog
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We lived in Wedgewood and some other coaches' boys lived in the neighborhood. I remember some backyard pickup football games with Alec Tohill (?) and a Bourgeois (sp?) boy. We went to Westcreek Elementary.
My family went to the game at Baylor while I was trick or treating. I remember Dad describing what happened when they got home. Sad.
DallasFrog
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That's him... Pretty sure that wasn't the technique Coach Boudreaux taught!
Limp Lizard
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The Lavender HIll Mob refers to a 1951 British comedy. The stars included Alec Guinness.
The British 50's dark comedy I want to see come out on DVD is "How to Murder a Rich Uncle." Saw it as a kid and thought it was hilarious.
We had a new coach come in (a TX ass't) who did what DKR did at TX whan he started coaching there. DKR changed them from orange to the burnt orange. BTW, this was the coach who had the heart attack and died in Waco. I'm old and can't recall his name
Leap Frog
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Frogs really didn't stink in Jim Pittman's only year (1971). Record was 6-4-1 and 5-2 in SWC.
However, his replacement, Billy Tohill, was a bad choice-- 5-6 in '72 and 3-8 in '73.
Then things got very bad under Jim Shofner-- a truly good man, but not head coach material. A great asst. coach .
Hoosierfrog
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Yep, down at half after he died in the back of a McClelkand County Sheriff car. Ended up winning with a lot of tears.
Will have to say Baylor was classy leading a prayer session at midfield after the gun.
Froginbedford
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Jim Pittman came to TCU from being head coach at Tulane....
Hoosierfrog
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But he went their from UT.
Froginbedford
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Pittman's team was Fred Taylor's recruiting....Taylor had a couple of 4-3 SWC seasons, but the over schedulting out side killed his season records with only the conference wins and no OOC and his last two years were the first two years of UT blowing the Frogs out of the stadium....At the time Pittman died, I remember lots of coffee shop discussions that he might have turned things around....
Hoosierfrog
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Don’t know where I got the gang thing, it came back immediately when you mentioned the movie. Old timers disease.
