1939 Santa Barbara State Gauchos football team

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1939 Santa Barbara State Gauchos football
Conference California Collegiate Athletic Association
Record5–4–1 (1–2 CCAA)
Head coach
Home stadium La Playa Stadium
Seasons
←  1938
1940  →
1939 California Collegiate Athletic Association football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
San Jose State $ 3 –0 –013 –0 –0
Fresno State 1 –1 –010 –1 –0
Santa Barbara State 1 –2 –05 –4 –1
San Diego State 0 –2 –02 –7 –0
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1939 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team represented Santa Barbara State [note 1] during the 1939 college football season.

Contents

Santa Barbara was ranked at No. 120 (out of 609 teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939. [1]

1939 was the inaugural year for the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). Santa Barbara State was one of four charter members of the conference, along with Fresno State Normal School, San Diego State College and San Jose State College. The Gauchos were led by sixth-year head coach Theodore "Spud" Harder and played home games at La Playa Stadium in Santa Barbara, California. They finished the season with a record of five wins, four losses and one tie (5–4–1, 1–2 CCAA).

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 22 Occidental *
W 20–0 [2]
September 29 Willamette *
  • La Playa Stadium
  • Santa Barbara, CA
W 20–14
October 6 Fresno State
  • La Playa Stadium
  • Santa Barbara, CA
L 6–13 [3]
October 14 San Diego Marines *
  • La Playa Stadium
  • Santa Barbara, CA
L 0–7 [4]
October 21 San Francisco *
  • La Playa Stadium
  • Santa Barbara, CA
T 0–0 [5]
October 27at San Jose State
L 7–23
November 3at California JV *
  • La Playa Stadium
  • Santa Barbara, CA
W 22–0
November 17 Colorado State–Greeley *
  • La Playa Stadium
  • Santa Barbara, CA
W 19–0
November 25at San Diego State
W 19–04,000 [6]
December 1at Whittier *
L 0–104,000 [7] [8]
  • *Non-conference game

Notes

  1. ↑ University of California, Santa Barbara was known as Santa Barbara State College from 1921 to 1943.

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References

  1. ↑ E. E. Litkenhous (December 31, 1939). "Vols Second In Final Litkenhous Grid Rankings; Southern California Tenth". Johnson City Sunday Press. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ↑ "Tiger Grid Team Opens Season at Santa Barbara Tonight". Highland Park News-Herald. September 22, 1939. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ "Bulldogs Whip Santa Barbara by 13-6 Score". The Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. October 7, 1939. p. I-10. Retrieved February 3, 2017– via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  4. ↑ "Gauchos and Marine To Meet On La Playa Battlefield Tonight". The Santa Barbara News-Press. October 14, 1939. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Santa Barbara Plays Dons to Scoreless Tie". Los Angeles Times. October 22, 1939. p. 28 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ Ted Steinmann (November 26, 1939). "Santa Barbarans Whip Aztecs, 19-0". The San Diego Union. San Diego, California. p. 1-E.
  7. ↑ Murray Gregory (December 2, 1939). "Poets End Season With 10-0 Victory Over Santa Barbara". The Whittier News. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "Poets Blank Santa Barbara Grids, 10-0". Los Angeles Times. December 2, 1939. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
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