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SMU vs TCU Friday Night on ESPN 8PM ET
The Iron Skillet will be on the line Friday night when TCU visits SMU. The Horned Frogs rolled over Baylor last week as Andy Dalton was nearly perfect, completing 21 of 23 passes. The Ponies had a high of their own last week, beating Washington State for their first win against a BCS school since 2000. TCU's has held the Iron Skillet for three straight years, and SMU's only win over a ranked opponent since 1996 came at the expense of No. 22 TCU in 2005, the last time the Mustangs won the Iron Skillet.
Battle for the Iron Skillet
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The Battle for the Iron Skillet is the name given to the football rivalry between the Mustangs of Southern Methodist University and the Horned Frogs of Texas Christian University, whose campuses are separated by just 40 miles in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The winner of the game receives an iron skillet trophy.
The two teams have faced each other nearly every year since the first meeting in 1915. Since then, there have only been six seasons in which they did not face each other: 1919, 1920, 1925, 1987, 1988 and 2006.
No one knows the original names to the story of the Iron Skillet, but it has been rumored that TCU and SMU fans originated this tradition back in the 1950s. During a pre game festivity a SMU fan was frying up some frog legs as a joke before the game. A TCU fan, seeing this desecration of the "frog", went over and told him that eating the frog legs was going well beyond the rivalry and that they should let the game decide who would get the skillet and the frog legs. TCU ended up winning the game and the skillet and the frog legs went to TCU. The tradition eventually spilled over into the actual game and the Iron Skillet is now passed to the winner between TCU and SMU.
Though not in the same conference anymore, SMU and TCU are signed to play each other every year up to and including 2017 on an alternating home and away basis.
The Iron Skillet will be on the line Friday night when TCU visits SMU. The Horned Frogs rolled over Baylor last week as Andy Dalton was nearly perfect, completing 21 of 23 passes. The Ponies had a high of their own last week, beating Washington State for their first win against a BCS school since 2000. TCU's has held the Iron Skillet for three straight years, and SMU's only win over a ranked opponent since 1996 came at the expense of No. 22 TCU in 2005, the last time the Mustangs won the Iron Skillet.
Battle for the Iron Skillet
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
The Battle for the Iron Skillet is the name given to the football rivalry between the Mustangs of Southern Methodist University and the Horned Frogs of Texas Christian University, whose campuses are separated by just 40 miles in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The winner of the game receives an iron skillet trophy.
The two teams have faced each other nearly every year since the first meeting in 1915. Since then, there have only been six seasons in which they did not face each other: 1919, 1920, 1925, 1987, 1988 and 2006.
No one knows the original names to the story of the Iron Skillet, but it has been rumored that TCU and SMU fans originated this tradition back in the 1950s. During a pre game festivity a SMU fan was frying up some frog legs as a joke before the game. A TCU fan, seeing this desecration of the "frog", went over and told him that eating the frog legs was going well beyond the rivalry and that they should let the game decide who would get the skillet and the frog legs. TCU ended up winning the game and the skillet and the frog legs went to TCU. The tradition eventually spilled over into the actual game and the Iron Skillet is now passed to the winner between TCU and SMU.
Though not in the same conference anymore, SMU and TCU are signed to play each other every year up to and including 2017 on an alternating home and away basis.