Former Horned Frog coach to be honored

Former TCU head football coach Jim Wacker will be honored during a half-time ceremony at the TCU and Alabama-Birmingham football game Saturday at Amon Carter Stadium.

Members of the Wacker family, including his wife, Lillian, will attend the ceremony, which will include a tribute on the videoboard.

Wacker lost a battle to cancer on Aug. 26 at the age of 66.

From 1983 through 1991, Frog football was in the hands of Wacker, who was a Texas college coaching legend after logging a pair of national championships at Division II Southwest Texas State and at Texas Lutheran, an NAIA school. Wacker’s first campaign at TCU produced only a 1-8-2 record, but he steered the Horned Frogs to a dramatic 8-4 turnaround in 1984 en route to a Bluebonnet Bowl date.

— courtesy of (www.gofrogs.com)