1956 Santa Barbara Gauchos football team
| 1956 Santa Barbara Gauchos football | |
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Citricado Bowl, L 14–25 vs. San Diego Marines | |
| Conference | California Collegiate Athletic Association |
| 1956 record | 5–5 (1–1 CCAA) |
| Head coach | Ed Cody (1st season) |
| Home stadium |
La Playa Stadium (Capacity: 10,000) |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fresno State | 2 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| San Diego State | 2 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 3 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Santa Barbara | 1 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Los Angeles State | 0 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 5 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cal Poly | 0 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1956 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team represented Santa Barbara College[note 1] during the 1956 College Division football season.
Santa Barbara competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). The team was led by first-year head coach Ed Cody, and played home games at La Playa Stadium in Santa Barbara, California. They finished the season with a record of five wins and five losses (5–5, 1–1 CCAA). At the end of the season, but Gauchos accepted an invitation to play in a charity bowl game. The game was the first and only Citricado Bowl,[1] played at Escondido High School in Escondido, California against a military team from Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego.
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | |||||
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| September 22 | at Whittier* | Hadley Field • Whittier, CA | W 34–0 | ||||||
| September 28 | Occidental* | La Playa Stadium • Santa Barbara, CA | W 31–6 | ||||||
| October 6 | Long Beach State[note 2]* | La Playa Stadium • Santa Barbara, CA | W 13–6 | ||||||
| October 12 | at Los Angeles State[note 3] | Reseda High School • Reseda, CA | W 33–14 | ||||||
| October 20 | at Northern Branch[note 4]* | California Memorial Stadium • Berkeley, CA | L 6–14 | ||||||
| October 27 | Pomona-Claremont[note 5]* | La Playa Stadium • Santa Barbara, CA | L 14–15 | ||||||
| November 3 | at Pepperdine* | El Camino Stadium • Torrance, CA | L 9–21 | ||||||
| November 10 | San Diego State | La Playa Stadium • Santa Barbara, CA | L 7–30 | 4,000[2] | |||||
| November 16 | Sacramento State[note 6]* | La Playa Stadium • Santa Barbara, CA | W 33–0 | ||||||
| December 1 | at San Diego Marines[note 7]* | Escondido High School • Escondido, CA (Citracado Bowl) | L 14–25 | ||||||
| *Non-conference game. | |||||||||
Team players in the NFL
No Santa Barbara Gaucho players were selected in the 1957 NFL Draft.[4][5][6]
Notes
- ↑ UC Santa Barbara was known as Santa Barbara College of the University of California from 1944–1956. See: Santa Barbara College
- ↑ California State University, Long Beach was known as Long Beach State College from 1950–1963. See: Long Beach State
- ↑ California State University, Los Angeles was known as Los Angeles State College of Applied Arts and Sciences from 1947–1963. See: Cal State LA
- ↑ UC Davis was known as Northern Branch of the College of Agriculture from 1922–1959. See: UC Davis
- ↑ What is now known as the Pomona-Pitzer football team was known as Pomona-Claremont from 1950–1961. Pitzer College did not exist until 1963. See: Pomona College
- ↑ California State University, Sacramento was known as Sacramento State College from 1947–1971. See: Sacramento State
- ↑ The Marine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD) in San Diego fielded a team that played against colleges and other military teams from 1922–1964.
References
- ↑ Ron Kenney. "Escondido Reflections: The year Escondido hosted a bowl game". Retrieved February 4, 2017.
- ↑ Howard Hagen (November 11, 1956). "Magee Leads Aztecs To Fourth Win, 30-7". The San Diego Union. p. B-1.
- ↑ "1956 - California-Santa Barbara". Retrieved February 1, 2017.
- ↑ "1957 NFL Draft". Retrieved February 2, 2017.
- ↑ "California-Santa Barbara Players/Alumni". Retrieved February 2, 2017.
- ↑ "Draft History: California-Santa Barbara". Retrieved March 18, 2017.