TCU ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME
Rare individuals come along who leave their Hall of Fame marks on the gridiron as both a player and coach; former TCU great Johnny Vaught managed to pull it off, captaining the Horned Frogs’ 1932 conference championship and heading the Ole Miss football program for a quarter century. From 1930-32, he earned All-Southwest Conference honors twice and consensus All-America honors as a guard.  Vaught, the first genuine All-American footballer developed and displayed on the Fort Worth playing fields, served as a standout lineman for the Horned Frogs teams during the 1930-31-32 campaigns. He helped the team to a 28-4-2 record and its second-ever SWC championship under the leadership of Coach Francis Schmidt. Vaught began his coaching career at North Carolina from 1936-41. In 1946, he assisted at Ole Miss for a year before moving up to head coach in 1947. In his 25-season tenure with the Rebels, 18 of his teams went to bowl games, 10 rated in the nation’s Top 10, and four ranked among the top five. He led the school to six Southeastern Conference titles and compiled 190 victories before retiring in 1970. An election to the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame followed soon after in 1979.
Vaught was inducted into the TCU Athletics Hall of Fame in 1971.
