Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic

Jim Swink lived for the big play. Throughout his career, the Rusk Rambler left defenders grasping in air as the elusive halfback turned long, broken field runs into points. With his gliding, side-stepping running style, Swink was poetry in motion. He scored twice in TCU's narrow 14-13 loss to Ole Miss in the 1956 Classic. His first touchdown was a short, one-yard burst, but the second score came on a dazzling 39-yard sprint over right tackle. Swink returned to the Cotton Bowl a year later for the Frogs' celebrated duel with Syracuse and Jim Brown. True to form, Swink scored what proved to be TCU's winning touchdown, the 35th of his career, on a three-yard blast early in the fourth quarter. The score pushed TCU to a 28-14 advantage and a cushion that Syracuse could not overcome.