FWST: Former TCU quarterback, UT Arlington coach Chuck Curtis dies

FWST: Former TCU quarterback, UT Arlington coach Chuck Curtis dies

BY CARLOS MENDEZ cmendez@star-telegram.com

Chuck Curtis, who won three consecutive high school state championships as a head coach, quarterbacked TCU to a 1957 Cotton Bowl victory against Syracuse and Jim Brown and was the last head coach for UT Arlington football, died Monday after an illness. He was 80.

Curtis led the Horned Frogs to Southwest Conference titles in 1955 and 1956, triggering an offense that included another TCU legend, running back Jim Swink. But it was Curtis who scored three touchdowns in a 28-27 victory over Syracuse and its future Pro Football Hall of Fame running back in the 1957 Cotton Bowl.

“He wanted the ball all the time, and I wanted to give it to him,” Curtis told the Cleburne Times Review in 2015. “It made my life easy.” …


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