The Texas Christian University Horned Frogs football team is the interscholastic football team at Texas Christian University that competes as a member of the Mountain West Conference. They have won two national championships and fourteen conference championships. They have had some legendary players, including Sammy Baugh, Davey O'Brien, and LaDainian Tomlinson. They are playing their home games at the 44,008 capacity Amon G. Carter Stadium, which is located on campus in Fort Worth, and opened in 1930. The current head coach of the program is Gary Patterson, their official uniform colors are purple and white, and their mascot is Super Frog. Their first year of football was 1896,and that year the team's record was 1-1-1. Its first win came against Toby’s Business College by the score of 8-6, apparently not having to use any substitutes.
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They went 8-1-0 and scored 230 points while only allowing 53 points the whole 1912 season. TCU won its first conference title while it was a member of the Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1920, and their 9-1-0 record earned them a spot in the Fort Worth Classic, also known as the Dixie Bowl, against Centre College. Under the watch of Dennis Franchione began the revival of TCU football, and they defeated the Trojans of USC in the 1998 Sun Bowl. Franchione coached the entire 2000 regular season, but left for the head coaching position at the University of Alabama before the 2000 Mobile Alabama Bowl, and TCU left the WAC for Conference USA in 2001. In the 2006 Poinsettia Bowl TCU defeated the Northern Illinois Huskies 37-7, and in their latest bowl victory they defeated the Houston Cougars by a score of 20-13 in the 2007 Houston Bowl.