TCU ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME
One of TCU’s all-time two-way line performers, Darrell “Iron Man” Lester carved his niche into SWC football lore during the early 1930s. Called “Iron Man” because of his burning desire to play every second, Lester anchored the Horned Frogs football team from 1933 to 1935, winning a total of 30 ball games, including captaining the 1935 12-1 squad. A native of Jacksboro, Texas, the 220-pound Lester not only was a consensus-choice All-American selection in 1934 – the university’s first-ever – but he repeated those honors after the 1935 season, becoming the Southwest Conference’s first two-time All-America player (1934 and 1935). Lester helped TCU to a stirring 3-2 Sugar Bowl victory over LSU. Lester performed for a pair of seasons with the Green Bay Packers (1937 and 1938) before a shoulder injury forced his early retirement from the sport. A founder of the Bluebonnet Bowl, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1988.
Lester was inducted into the TCU Athletics Hall of Fame in 1977.
