Rags Matthews

{{Short description|American football player (1905–1999)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox college football player

| name = Rags Matthews

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1905|8|17}}

| birth_place = Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1999|1|2|1905|8|17}}

| death_place = Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.

| class = Graduate

| currentposition = End

| school = TCU Horned Frogs

| pastschools = TCU (1925–1927)

| highlights =

• Second-team All-American (1927)
• First-team All-SWC (1927)

| CFBHOF_year = 1971

}}

Raymond "Rags" Matthews (August 17, 1905 – January 2, 1999){{Cite web|title=Rags Matthews (1971) - Hall of Fame|url=https://footballfoundation.org/hof_search.aspx?hof=1396|access-date=2021-08-04|website=National Football Foundation|language=en}} was an American football player at Texas Christian University (TCU) in the 1920s. A Fort Worth, Texas native, Matthews attended Polytechnic High School before TCU. He lettered three times under coach Matty Bell, during which the TCU Horned Frogs posted a cumulative record of 17–5–5. He was named the team's Most Valuable Player after the 1926 and 1927 seasons, and was selected to play in the Shrine East-West All-Star Game as a senior in 1927, the first year players from the Southwest Conference were included.{{Cite web|last=Jenkins|first=Dan|title=WHEN THE FROGS WERE PRINCES|url=https://vault.si.com/vault/1981/08/31/when-the-frogs-were-princes-a-texas-christian-alumnus-recalls-the-golden-days-with-sammy-baugh-dutch-meyer-and-a-lot-of-other-terrific-folks|access-date=2021-08-04|website=Sports Illustrated Vault {{!}} SI.com|language=en-us}}

Matthews was named to the All-Time All-SWC Team in 1969, and was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971.{{Cite web|last=Democrat|first=Weatherford|title=TCU's LT Selected to College Football Hall of Fame|url=https://www.weatherforddemocrat.com/sports/tcus-lt-selected-to-college-football-hall-of-fame/article_3e4efede-d300-5712-b90c-78f5d67e178a.html|access-date=2021-08-04|website=Weatherford Democrat|language=en}} He died in his hometown at the age of 93 in 1999.{{Cite web|title=The Texas Christian University Magazine; The Numbers|url=http://www.magarchive.tcu.edu/Numbers/31.asp|access-date=2021-08-04|website=www.magarchive.tcu.edu}}