COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State, willing to overpay and keen on beating Michigan, forced out its coach and stole a rising star. It’s a story fit for the modern day, but one that happened 84 years ago, when the Buckeyes snatched away TCU’s football coach. Saturday night, Ohio State and TCU will meet for the first time since 1973, and the sixth time overall, with the Buckeyes holding a 4-1-1 lead in the series since they swooped into Fort Worth and plucked out an offensive genius. In 1934, in search of a replacement for Sam Willaman, whose departure was seen as a foregone conclusion the moment he lost to Michigan in 1933, though it was the Buckeyes’ only loss of the season, The Plain Dealer listed up to 20 names of college football coaches in the running for the job. The coaches at Purdue and the University of Chicago turned down…
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