Texas Christian University is a co-ed, private university in Fort Worth, TX. It’s affiliated with the Christian Church, but is not governed by it. The school was established in 1873 as the AddRan Male & Female College by East Texas brothers Addison and Randolph Clark and their father, Joseph A. Clark.

The TCU Horned Frogs are the school’s sports teams that compete in the NCAA’s Division I and the Mountain West Conference. Their mascot is the horned frog and their colors are purple and white. TCU was a former long-time member of the Southwest Conference, along with Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Baylor, Southern Methodist University, Houston, Arkansas and Rice. After the Southwest Conference disbanded in 1995, they went through a period of transition; they joined the Western Athletic Conference soon afterward, then moved to Conference USA in 2001 and again to the Mountain West Conference in 2005.

The Horned Frogs’ football team began play in 1896, when the school was still known as AddRan College and has won 2 national championships: one in 1935 and the other in 1938; the team has also gotten 14 conference championships. There have been a lot of notable players for TCU like Sammy Baugh, Davey O’Brien, Bob Lilly, Aaron Schobel and LaDainian Tomlinson. The team’s home games are played on campus at Amon G. Carter Stadium, which opened in 1930 and has a capacity of 44,008. Their current coach is Gary Patterson, who has been with them since 2000 and has led them to a record if 62-25 and 4 bowl game victories in 7 appearances. Under coach Butch Meyer, they competed in and won the first Cotton Bowl Classic; and they’ve won 2 Sugar Bowls. From 1942 to 1998, they went on an 11 bowl game losing streak. Besides the first Cotton Bowl, TCU has played in other inaugural bowls like the Bluebonnet, Mobile Alabama and both the Fort Worth Classic and Fort Worth Bowl games.