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ALL-TIME GREATS
Cy
Otis
Horatio
LELAND
MCDANIEL
PORTER
CY LELAND | 100 YARD DASH IN 9.4 SECONDS
OTIS MCDANIEL | FOUR-TIME ALL-AMERICAN
HORATIO PORTER | TWO-TIME NCAA CHAMPION
1928-1930
2005-2009
Leland was an all-Southwest Conference halfback on the Horned Frogsʼ 1929 unbeaten Southwest Conference championship team. His shining athletic moment probably came at the 1930 Kansas Relays when he tied the world record in the 100-yard dash in 9.4 seconds.
McDaniel closed out his senior season collecting All-America honors as a member of the men's 4x100 that placed eighth overall in Fayetteville, Ark., with a time of 39.50 seconds. A multiple conference champion, McDaniel earned four All-America honors while at TCU. Probably his biggest accomplishment during his stint in Fort Worth was that he won gold in the 200 at the NACAC Under 23 Track & Field Championships with a meetrecord time of 20.61. He was also the PanAm Junior Champion in the 200 meters and 4x100 relay.
Lelandʼs 1930 track season was filled with record-breaking performances. He started the season by setting TCU marks in the 100 (9.6) and 220-yard dash (21.5) at the Fat Stock Show Meet at TCU on March 15. Leland then gained regional notoriety by winning the 100 at the Drake Relays. He capped the year by breaking the 220-yard dash conference record at the Southwest Conference Championships in 20.9. He closed the season with a fourth-place 100 finish at the NCAA meet.
In 2008, he was part of the men's 4x100 unit that earned All-America honors by crossing the finish line in seventh-place with a time of 39.60 seconds. McDaniel had a solid outing at the MWC Championships as he won the conference title in the 200 meters with a seasonal best time of 20.60, while also posting runner-up honors in the 100 meters. Was a key component on both the sprint medley and 4x100 units during his four years in Fort Worth that ranked in the top-10 of the world and national standings nearly every season.
In football, Cy rushed for 100 yards four times during his career and three times during the 1929 season. A 173-yard outing against Abilene Christian in 1930, setting a TCU single-game rushing mark at the time, highlighted his career. In 1929, Leland led the nation while averaging 7.2 yards per attempt. His 93-yard punt return for a touchdown against Baylor in 1929 remains a TCU record.
During his sophomore campaign, McDaniel was named Outstanding Performer at the Mountain West Outdoor Championships. At the MWC, he won the 100 and 200 meters and was a member of the 4x100 relay team that won conference title He set the conference and meet record en route to winning the 200 meters at the MWC Outdoor Championships with a time of 20.35. He also won the 100 meters at the MWC Outdoor Championships with a time of 10.29
The most famous moment of his TCU athletic career came in Austin, Texas in 1929, when Leland took a kickoff and raced down the west sideline for a 95-yard touchdown that led to a 15-12 TCU win and the Frogsʼ first SWC football championship.
Finally, in 2005 McDaniel earned a spot on the U.S. Junior National team where he captured gold in the 200 meters at the Pan American Junior Championships with a 20.67 clocking.
The man who started TCUʼs sprinting tradition long ago was Texas native Cy Leland. Leland was a TCU immortal when he graduated in 1931.
1989-1992 Yet another local product from Fort Worth Polytechnic High School, Horatio Porter was a five-time all-America sprinter at TCU. En route, he ran the leadoff carry on the fastest NCAA 4x100 relay to that point — 38.23 seconds at the NCAA Championships in Indianapolis, Porter again handled the leadoff leg as the Flyinʼ Frogs won in 38.80 seconds. A two-time NCAA Outdoor qualifier in the 200 meters (he had a career PR of 20.40 in that event), Horatio captured both the 55 meters and the 200 at the 1992 SWC Indoor meet. In 2008, Porter along with Carey Johnson, Ralston Wright and Jon Drummond were honored as part of the 2008 Wall of Fame class at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia. Johnson, Wright, Drummond and Porter were part of a 4x100 relay team in 1991 that set a 10-year Penn Relays record, winning the event in 38.80 seconds. It was the first sub-39 college 4x100 at that time. The unit joins TCU's 1986 4x200 meter relay squad on the Wall of Fame.
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