1951 Santa Barbara Gauchos football team
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Conference | California Collegiate Athletic Association |
1951 record | 5–4 (1–3 CCAA) |
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Home stadium | La Playa Stadium (Capacity: 10,000) |
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Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
San Diego State $ | 4 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 10 | – | 0 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cal Poly | 2 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 5 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pepperdine | 2 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 5 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Santa Barbara | 1 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Los Angeles State | 0 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 1 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1951 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team represented Santa Barbara College[note 1] during the 1951 college football season.
Santa Barbara competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). The team was led by third-year head coach Roy Engle and played home games at La Playa Stadium in Santa Barbara, California. They finished the season with a record of five wins and four losses (5–4, 1–3 CCAA).
Schedule[]
Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance |
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September 29 | at Pomona-Claremont[note 2]* |
| W 48–20 | |
October 5 | Occidental* |
| W 27–25 | |
October 12 | at Fresno State[note 3]* | W 23–22 | 6,152[1] | |
October 20 | Whittier |
| W 19–12 | |
November 3 | vs. Cal Aggies[note 4][note 5] |
| L 7–13 | |
November 10 | at Cal Poly[note 6]* |
| L 7–14 | |
November 16 | Los Angeles State[note 7]* |
| W 26–0 | [2] |
November 22 | at San Diego State[note 8] | L 0–40 | 7,000[3] | |
November 30 | Pepperdine[note 9]* |
| L 6–26 | |
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Team players in the NFL[]
No Santa Barbara Gaucho players were selected in the 1952 NFL Draft.[5][6][7]
Notes[]
- ^ University of California, Santa Barbara was known as Santa Barbara College of the University of California from 1944 to 1957.
- ^ What is now known as the Pomona-Pitzer football team was known as Pomona-Claremont from 1950 to 1961. Pitzer College did not exist until 1963.
- ^ California State University, Fresno was known as Fresno State College from 1949 to 1971.
- ^ The game against the Cal Aggies was part of an "All-UC Doubleheader" that was held annually from 1948 to 1963. The other game of the double-header was California vs. UCLA. The games were always held at the home stadium of either Cal or UCLA.
- ^ University of California, Davis was known as Northern Branch of the College of Agriculture from 1922 to 1959. In common usage, the sports teams were called the "Cal Aggies" from 1924 until the mid 1970s.
- ^ The official name of Cal Poly has been California Polytechnic State University since 1947. However, it is more commonly known as either Cal Poly San Luis Obispo or just Cal Poly.
- ^ California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA) was known as Los Angeles State College of Applied Arts and Sciences from 1947 to 1963.
- ^ San Diego State University was known as San Diego State College from 1935 to 1971.
- ^ Pepperdine University was known as George Pepperdine College from 1937 to 1970.
References[]
- ^ "Fresno State 2016 Media Guide" (PDF). Retrieved December 8, 2016.
- ^ "L.A. State Beaten by Flying Gauchos". The Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. November 17, 1951. p. III-3. Retrieved January 24, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Howard Hagen (November 23, 1951). "Aztecs End Unbeaten Campaign With 40 to 0 Rout of Gauchos". The San Diego Union. San Diego, California. p. B-3.
- ^ "1951 - California-Santa Barbara". Retrieved February 1, 2017.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "1952 NFL Draft". Retrieved February 2, 2017.
- ^ "California-Santa Barbara Players/Alumni". Retrieved February 2, 2017.
- ^ "Draft History: California-Santa Barbara". Retrieved March 18, 2017.
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