American college football season
1950 Stanford Indians football |
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Conference | Pacific Coast Conference |
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Record | 5–3–2 (2–2–2 PCC) |
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Head coach | - Marchmont Schwartz (6th season)
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Home stadium | Stanford Stadium |
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Seasons |
1950 Pacific Coast Conference football standings | Conf | | | Overall |
Team | W | | L | | T | | | W | | L | | T |
No. 5 California $ | 5 | – | 0 | – | 1 | | | 9 | – | 1 | – | 1 |
No. 11 Washington | 6 | – | 1 | – | 0 | | | 8 | – | 2 | – | 0 |
UCLA | 5 | – | 2 | – | 0 | | | 6 | – | 3 | – | 0 |
Stanford | 2 | – | 2 | – | 2 | | | 5 | – | 3 | – | 2 |
Idaho | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | | | 3 | – | 5 | – | 1 |
Washington State | 2 | – | 3 | – | 2 | | | 4 | – | 3 | – | 2 |
USC | 1 | – | 3 | – | 2 | | | 2 | – | 5 | – | 2 |
Oregon State | 2 | – | 5 | – | 0 | | | 3 | – | 6 | – | 0 |
Oregon | 0 | – | 7 | – | 0 | | | 1 | – | 9 | – | 0 |
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Rankings from AP Poll |
The 1950 Stanford Indians football team represented Stanford University in the 1950 college football season. Stanford was led by sixth-year head coach Marchmont Schwartz. The team were members of the Pacific Coast Conference and played their home games at Stanford Stadium in Stanford, California.
Coming off the successful 1949 season in which a talented group of sophomores, led by quarterback Gary Kerkorian and end Bill McColl, had the Indians a game away from the Rose Bowl, Stanford was expected to have an excellent season and was ranked 7th in the first-ever preseason AP Poll.[1][2] But after starting 4–0, the team would only win one more game and tie twice, the second tie coming in the Big Game, in which the team rallied to tie undefeated and Rose Bowl-bound rival California.[2][3] Coach Schwartz resigned following the season.[4]
Schedule
Date | Opponent | Rank | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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September 23 | San Jose State* | No. 7 | | W 33–16 | | |
September 30 | San Francisco* | No. 7 | - Stanford Stadium
- Stanford, CA
| W 55–7 | 35,000 | [5] |
October 7 | at Oregon State | No. 8 | | W 21–7 | 16,000 | |
October 14 | Santa Clara* | No. 6 | - Stanford Stadium
- Stanford, CA
| W 23–13 | 29,000 | [6] |
October 21 | at UCLA | No. 6 | | L 7–21 | 58,143 | |
October 28 | Washington | | - Stanford Stadium
- Stanford, CA
| L 7–21 | 32,474 | |
November 4 | USC | | | T 7–7 | 40,000 | |
November 11 | Washington State | | - Stanford Stadium
- Stanford, CA
| W 28–18 | 15,000 | |
November 18 | No. 3 Army* | | - Stanford Stadium
- Stanford, CA
| L 0–7 | | |
November 25 | at No. 4 California | | | T 7–7 | | |
- *Non-conference game
- Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
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Players drafted by the NFL
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References
- ^ "1950 Preseason AP Football Poll". CollegePollArchive.com. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
- ^ a b Migdol, Gary (1997). Stanford: Home of Champions. Champaign, Illinois: Sports Publishing LLC. pp. 112–114. ISBN 1-57167-116-1.
- ^ "Stanford Game-by-Game Results; 1950–1954". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on 2011-10-19. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
- ^ "Schwartz out at Stanford". Miami News. December 30, 1950. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
- ^ Bob Brachman (October 1, 1950). "Stanford Steamrollers USF, 55-7! Thumping by Indians Worst in Don History; Cards Shut Gates of Mercy; 35,000 See Matson Completely Bottled Up". The San Francisco Examiner. pp. 22, 26 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Harry M. Hayward (October 15, 1950). "Stanford Pushes Over Broncos, 23-13: Cards Forced to Go All Out for Victory". The San Francisco Examiner. pp. 24, 28 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "1951 NFL Draft". Archived from the original on December 10, 2010. Retrieved August 5, 2014.
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