Dutch makes the list as both a player and a coach. As a player he earned 11 letters, playing football baseball and basketball. Upon graduating from TCU Meyer went on to play a season for the Cleveland Indians Minor League team before retuning to Fort Worth to coach Polytechnic High. In 1923 Meyer returned to TCU as the freshman coach. In 1934 he was promoted to varsity head coach.
As head coach of the Frogs, Meyer led TCU to two National Championships and 6 bowl games including two wins in the Sugar and one in the Cotton bowl. Meyer also led the Frogs to three SWC championships. perhaps his biggest contribution was the creation of what was then called the double wing and has grown and morphed into the West Coast, and now the Spread offenses. Sammy Baugh quoted Dutch's system as such in the Washington Post:
"The first day we go into a room and he has three S's up on a blackboard; nobody knew what that meant. Then he gives us a little talk and he says,`This is our passing game.' He goes up to the blackboard and he writes three words that complete the S's: `Short, Sure and Safe.' That was his philosophy — the short pass. "Everybody loved to throw the long pass. But the point Dutch Meyer made was, `Look at what the short pass can do for you.' You could throw it for seven yards on first down, then run a play or two for a first down, do it all over again and control the ball. That way you could beat a better team."
Dutch also served as season as baseball coach where he led the Frogs to a SWC championship. His name is on two buildings on TCU's campus, it makes up half of the name of the basketball arena and the recently opened Dutch Meyer Athletic complex. Dutch "The Saturday Fox" Meyer was full of quotes, but I'll end with the one we all know. "Fight 'em till hell freezes over then fight 'em on the ice"
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