Jim Brown dies, TCU 1957 Cotton Bowl big win

[Froglaw]

Takes us more mature Frogs to remember that 1957 classic. Syracuse was ranked 8th, we were ranked 14th, they had Jim Brown, we had Jim Swink. Great weather for the game, sell out crowd, we had big leads twice, they rallied, but one missed extra point and we won. Among great memories, especially Jim Swink. Brown turned out to be one of the NFL's greatest. A good guy. He was 87.

Jim Brown was the SU kicker; he missed the extra point.

No going for two back then.

 

[TemCatFrog71]

Single-platoon football was still the predominant system when I started playing in about 1964-65. But I long ago quit saying "I used to play both ways." People kept misunderstanding what that meant.

I got to TCU in the Fall of 1966. We played two platoon for the 4 years I was there. It seems that the TCU Sun Bowl team of 1965 was also two platoon by then.