TCU ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME
Othol “Abe” Martin led the Frogs to a 74-64-7 record over 14 season prior to serving as TCU athletics director for a decade from 1966 through 1975. A founding member of TCU’s Southwest Conference dominance, having played on the first TCU team to win the SWC championship in 1929, Martin began his TCU coaching career as the head coach of the freshman football team in 1945 before his promotion in 1953 following the Dutch Meyer era. Truly a player’s coach, Martin’s TCU ballclubs won three SWC crowns and played in five post-season bowl games, including victories in three Cotton Bowls. Also, some of the university’s greatest football players — Jim Swink, Don Floyd, Bob Lilly, Hugh Pitts, Norman Hamilton, Jack Spikes, and Tommy Joe Crutcher just to name a few — were produced during the Abe Martin era. Seven of them claimed All-American honors, and more than a dozen all-Southwest Conference recognition. Martin was named SWC Coach of the Year in 1955 and 1958.
Martin was inducted into TCU Athletics' second Hall of Fame class in 1968.
