This was the first Bluebonnet Bowl, a bowl game that usually featured a team from Texas against an out-of-state opponent, with 19 out of the 29 games in this series involving a team from Texas, or from the Southwest Conference.

Clemson started the scoring with a 22-yard field goal by Lon Armstrong, but TCU struck back with a 19-yard pass from Jack Redding to Harry Moreland with 5:45 left in the first half, to give the Frogs a 7–3 halftime lead.

The game went scoreless in the third period, but in the fourth quarter, Harvey White threw a pass to Gary Barnes, who galloped in for a touchdown to give the Tigers the lead.

Clemson scored 13 more points with the help of Lowndes Shingler, as the Tigers won 23–7.

[2] The Horned Frogs would return to the Bluebonnet Bowl just once more, 25 years later in the 1984 edition.