1957 Long Beach State 49ers football team

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1957 Long Beach State 49ers football
ConferenceCalifornia Collegiate Athletic Association
1957 record3–5 (0–3 CCAA)
Head coach
Home stadiumVeterans Stadium
(Capacity: 11,600)
Seasons
← 1956
1958 →
1957 California Collegiate Athletic Association football standings
  • v
  • t
 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Cal Poly 3 – 0 – 0 8 – 1 – 0
UC Santa Barbara 2 – 1 – 0 6 – 2 – 0
Fresno State 1 – 1 – 0 5 – 5 – 0
Los Angeles State 1 – 1 – 0 5 – 4 – 0
San Diego State 0 – 1 – 0 2 – 7 – 0
Long Beach State 0 – 3 – 0 3 – 5 – 0
  • No champion named for the 1957 season

The 1957 Long Beach State 49ers football team represented Long Beach State College[note 1] during the 1957 NCAA College Division football season. The 49ers were in their third year of existence. 1957 was the first year the 49ers played in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). They had played as an independent since they started in 1955.

The team was led by head coach Mike DeLotto, in his third year, and played home games at Veterans Stadium adjacent to the campus of Long Beach City College in Long Beach, California. They finished the season with a record of three wins and five losses (3–5, 0–3 CCAA).

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 27Sacramento State[note 2]*
L 0–14
October 4at Cal Aggies[note 3]*
W 12–6
October 12at Arizona State, Flagstaff[note 4]*
  • Lumberjack Stadium
  • Flagstaff, AZ
W 7–6
October 18at Santa Barbara[note 5]
  • La Playa Stadium
  • Santa Barbara, CA
L 7–28
October 26at Pepperdine[note 6]*
W 21–0
November 1San Francisco State[note 7]*
  • Veterans Memorial Stadium
  • Long Beach, CA
L 23–38
November 8Los Angeles State[note 8]dagger
  • Veterans Memorial Stadium
  • Long Beach, CA
L 14–23
November 15Cal Poly[note 9]
  • Veterans Memorial Stadium
  • Long Beach, CA
L 7–41
  • *Non-conference game
  • daggerHomecoming

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Team players in the NFL[]

No Long Beach State 49ers were selected in the 1958 NFL Draft.[4]

Notes[]

  1. ^ California State University, Long Beach was known as Long Beach State College from 1950 to 1963.
  2. ^ California State University, Sacramento was known as Sacramento State College from 1947 to 1971.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Northern Arizona University was known as Arizona State College at Flagstaff from 1945 to 1957.
  5. ^ University of California, Santa Barbara was known as Santa Barbara College of the University of California from 1944 to 1958.
  6. ^ Pepperdine University was known as George Pepperdine College from 1937 to 1970.
  7. ^ San Francisco State University was known as San Francisco State College from 1935 to 1971.
  8. ^ California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA) was known as Los Angeles State College of Applied Arts and Sciences from 1947 to 1963.
  9. ^ 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.

References[]

  1. ^ Long Beach State Football 1957 (pamphlet). Long Beach, California: LBSC Athletic Department. 1957.
  2. ^ Long Beach State Football 1958 (pamphlet). Long Beach, California: LBSC Athletic Department. 1958.
  3. ^ "Cal St.-Long Beach Yearly Results". Archived from the original on January 8, 2017. Retrieved January 7, 2017.
  4. ^ "1958 NFL Draft". Retrieved December 7, 2016.
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