1954 Pacific Tigers football team

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1954 Pacific Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
1954 record4–5
Head coach
Home stadiumPacific Memorial Stadium
Seasons
← 1953
1955 →
1954 Western college football independents records
  • v
  • t
 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Pepperdine   –   6 – 2 – 0
San Jose State   –   7 – 3 – 0
Pacific (CA)   –   4 – 5 – 0
Hawaii   –   4 – 4 – 0
La Verne   –   2 – 6 – 0
Cal Poly San Dimas   –   1 – 8 – 0

The 1954 Pacific Tigers football team represented the College of the Pacific[note 1] during the 1954 college football season.

Pacific competed as an independent in 1954. They played home games in Pacific Memorial Stadium[note 2] in Stockton, California. In their second season under head coach Jack Myers, the Tigers finished with a record of four wins and five losses (4–5). For the season they were outscored by their opponents 99–118.

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendance
September 17Stanford
L 12–13
September 25at Washington State
L 0–1812,000
October 2at Indiana
L 6–34
October 9Idaho[1]
  • Pacific Memorial Stadium
  • Stockton, California
W 13–0  9,500
October 16at Colorado A&M
W 15–7
October 23Texas Tech
  • Pacific Memorial Stadium
  • Stockton, California
W 20–714,171
October 30at Cincinnati
L 7–13
November 6San Jose State[note 3]
  • Pacific Memorial Stadium
  • Stockton, California
W 13–7
November 13Marquette
  • Pacific Memorial Stadium
  • Stockton, California
L 13–19

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Team players in the NFL[]

No College of the Pacific players were selected in the 1955 NFL Draft.[3][4][5]

The following finished their college career in 1954, were not drafted, but played in the NFL.

Player Position First NFL team
Fred Miller Tackle 1955 Washington Redskins

Notes[]

  1. ^ University of the Pacific (UOP) was known as College of the Pacific from 1911 to 1961.
  2. ^ Amos Alonzo Stagg Memorial Stadium was known as Pacific Memorial Stadium from its opening in 1950 through 1987.
  3. ^ San Jose State University was known as San Jose State College from 1935 to 1971.

References[]

  1. ^ "Pacific shuts out Idaho 13-0". Lodi New-Sentinel. (California). October 11, 1954. p. 8.
  2. ^ "1954 - Pacific (CA)". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on September 10, 2015. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
  3. ^ "1955 NFL Draft". Retrieved December 7, 2016.
  4. ^ "Pacific Players/Alumni". Retrieved January 30, 2017.
  5. ^ "Draft History: U. of Pacific". Retrieved March 18, 2017.
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