TCU ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME
It is somewhat debatable whether Bob Lilly’s collegiate football career or his professional one was more impressive since both were absolutely superb tenures of Hall of Fame proportions. A member of the all-time SWC Dream Team, this great from Throckmorton was the main thrust behind the 1958-59-60 Horned Frog teams which captured two Southwest Conference titles, plus appeared in the 1959 Cotton Bowl, as well as the Bluebonnet Bowl the following season. Lilly was a consensus All-America choice in 1960. And in the spring of 1961 he became the Dallas Cowboys’ first-ever draft choice. He would later go on to earn the nickname “Mr. Cowboy.” For 14 seasons, nine times as an All-Pro, Lilly terrorized the National Football League as a dominating defensive tackle. He became Dallas’ first member of the “Cowboy Ring of Honor” and was inducted into the Professional Football Hall of Fame in 1980. Lilly was named to the NFL’s 75th Anniversary All-Time Team in 1994.
Lilly was inducted into the TCU Athletics Hall of Fame in 1976.
