peacock
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personally I think he deserves a statue but hopefully they will at least retire his number....his contributions to tcu, and integration have largely been overlooked.....
TCU TO HONOR HALL OF FAMER CASH ON JAN. 29
FORT WORTH—The TCU men’s basketball program will celebrate the career of former Horned Frog James Cash Jr. with a special ceremony during the team's Jan. 29 home matchup against Air Force at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum.
Cash, who became the first African American to play in the Southwest Conference while lettering for TCU from 1967 through 1969, will have his jersey, No. 54, honored at halftime of the Horned Frogs’ 5 p.m. matchup against the Falcons. The game also has been designated as the annual “Take A Kid to the Game Night,” with a free youth ticket accompanying the purchase of any adult ticket.
Cash, one of only 30 players in TCU history to reach the 1,000-point milestone, finished his career in fifth place on the Frogs’ all-time scoring list. He still sits fourth on the program’s career rebounding chart with 856, an average of 11.6 boards per game. A product of Terrell High School in Fort Worth, Cash helped the Frogs win the 1967-68 SWC championship and advance to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. He also was a standout in the classroom, earning Academic All-America honors during his stint at TCU, and was later inducted into the TCU Letterman’s Hall of Fame in 1984.
In addition to his basketball accomplishments as a Frog, Cash put together an accomplished career off the court following his athletic career. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in math from TCU and both a master’s in computer science and a Ph.D. from Purdue, he became the first African American Full Professor at the Harvard Business School, where he helped build the school’s curriculum in the area of computer-based technology. He later served as chairman of the Harvard M.B.A. program from 1992 to 1995 and senior associate dean for Harvard Business School Publishing from 1998 until his retirement in 2003.
Cash currently is a member of the board of directors of several well-known corporations, including General Electric, Wal-Mart and The Chubb Corporation. In the past he served on the boards of Alcon Labs, Tandy Corp (late renamed Radio Shack), Microsoft and Knight Ridder, the former owner of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He kept true to his basketball roots in 2003, when he joined the group that purchased the Boston Celtics.
Tickets to TCU’s Jan. 29 contest are available for purchase through the TCU Athletics Ticket Office by either calling (817) 257-FROG or visiting GoFrogs.com.
TCU TO HONOR HALL OF FAMER CASH ON JAN. 29
FORT WORTH—The TCU men’s basketball program will celebrate the career of former Horned Frog James Cash Jr. with a special ceremony during the team's Jan. 29 home matchup against Air Force at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum.
Cash, who became the first African American to play in the Southwest Conference while lettering for TCU from 1967 through 1969, will have his jersey, No. 54, honored at halftime of the Horned Frogs’ 5 p.m. matchup against the Falcons. The game also has been designated as the annual “Take A Kid to the Game Night,” with a free youth ticket accompanying the purchase of any adult ticket.
Cash, one of only 30 players in TCU history to reach the 1,000-point milestone, finished his career in fifth place on the Frogs’ all-time scoring list. He still sits fourth on the program’s career rebounding chart with 856, an average of 11.6 boards per game. A product of Terrell High School in Fort Worth, Cash helped the Frogs win the 1967-68 SWC championship and advance to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. He also was a standout in the classroom, earning Academic All-America honors during his stint at TCU, and was later inducted into the TCU Letterman’s Hall of Fame in 1984.
In addition to his basketball accomplishments as a Frog, Cash put together an accomplished career off the court following his athletic career. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in math from TCU and both a master’s in computer science and a Ph.D. from Purdue, he became the first African American Full Professor at the Harvard Business School, where he helped build the school’s curriculum in the area of computer-based technology. He later served as chairman of the Harvard M.B.A. program from 1992 to 1995 and senior associate dean for Harvard Business School Publishing from 1998 until his retirement in 2003.
Cash currently is a member of the board of directors of several well-known corporations, including General Electric, Wal-Mart and The Chubb Corporation. In the past he served on the boards of Alcon Labs, Tandy Corp (late renamed Radio Shack), Microsoft and Knight Ridder, the former owner of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He kept true to his basketball roots in 2003, when he joined the group that purchased the Boston Celtics.
Tickets to TCU’s Jan. 29 contest are available for purchase through the TCU Athletics Ticket Office by either calling (817) 257-FROG or visiting GoFrogs.com.
