1950 Idaho Vandals football team

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1950 Idaho Vandals football
Conference Pacific Coast Conference
Record3–5–1 (1–1–1 PCC)
Head coach
Captains
  • Bob Mays
  • Max Glaves
  • Vern Baxter [1]
Home stadium Neale Stadium
Seasons
←  1949
1951  →
1950 Pacific Coast Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 5 California $ 5 –0 –19 –1 –1
No. 11 Washington 6 –1 –08 –2 –0
UCLA 5 –2 –06 –3 –0
Stanford 2 –2 –25 –3 –2
Idaho 1 –1 –13 –5 –1
Washington State 2 –3 –24 –3 –2
USC 1 –3 –22 –5 –2
Oregon State 2 –5 –03 –6 –0
Oregon 0 –7 –01 –9 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1950 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1950 college football season. The Vandals were led by fourth-year head coach Dixie Howell and were members of the Pacific Coast Conference. Home games were played on campus at Neale Stadium in Moscow, with one game in Boise at old Bronco Stadium at Boise Junior College, the season opener at the new venue. [2]

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Led on the field by quarterbacks Max Glaves and Wayne Anderson, Idaho compiled a 3–5–1 overall record and were 1–1–1 in their three PCC games.

The Vandals broke a 21-game losing streak in the Battle of the Palouse with neighbor Washington State, with a 7–7 tie in the mud at Pullman. [3] But the winless streak against the Cougars was up to 24 games,0–22–2 since taking three straight in 1923–25 ; Idaho finally won four years later, also in Pullman. [4]

In the rivalry game with Montana at Neale Stadium four weeks earlier, favored Idaho was upset 27–28 and relinquished the Little Brown Stein. [5] This was the last Montana win in the series for a decade; Idaho won the next eight, through 1959. [6] [7]

Idaho hosted Oregon for homecoming on October 14 and defeated the Webfoots for the first time in a quarter century. [8] [9] [10] They also hosted #18 Wyoming, but fell by seven points in a scoreless second half; [11] [12] the Cowboys won all nine games and were ranked twelfth at the end of the regular season, [13] then won the Gator Bowl. [14]

The Vandals made distant non-conference road trips to El Paso, Boston, and Tempe. The East Coast trip was a day game win in historic Fenway Park, [15] [16] while the other two in the Southwest were night losses. [17] (Idaho had played at Fenway ten years earlier, with much different results.) [18]

Coaching change

After the season in December, Howell and his staff were given one-year contract extensions. [19] [20] Three months later, in late March  1951, university president Jesse Buchanan requested and received the resignations of Howell and two assistants, due to "lack of harmony" on the coaching staff. [21] [22] [23] One of those assistants was ends coach Babe Curfman, who was then asked by the administration to be the interim coach during the upcoming spring drills. He made a good impression and was re-hired as head coach in mid-April. [24] [25]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 231:00 pmvs. Utah *
W 26–1912,500 [26] [27] [28]
September 302:00 pm Montana *
L 27–2810,000 [5]
October 77:15 pmat Texas Western *
L 33–43 [17] [29]
October 142:00 pm Oregon Dagger-14-plain.png
  • Neale Stadium
  • Moscow, ID
W 14–012,000 [8] [9] [10]
October 282:00 pmat Washington State
T 7–717,000 [3]
November 41:30 pmNo. 18 Wyoming *
  • Neale Stadium
  • Moscow, ID
L 7–149,000 [11] [12]
November 111:30 pmat Oregon State
L 19–348,000 [30] [31]
November 1810:30 amat Boston University *
W 26–198,298 [16]
November 257:15 pmat Arizona State *
L 21–48 [32] [33]
  • *Non-conference game
  • Dagger-14-plain.pngHomecoming
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
  • All times are in Pacific time

Coaching staff

All-conference

No Vandals were on the All-Coast team; honorable mention were guard Roy Colquitt and fullback King Block. [34]

NFL Draft

Three seniors from the 1950 Vandals were selected in the 1951 NFL draft: [35]

PlayerPositionRound Pick Franchise
Bill Fray T 16th 191 New York Yanks
King Block FB 21st 250 Detroit Lions
Jim Chadband  HB 28th 335   New York Yanks   

One junior was selected in the 1952 NFL draft: [36]

PlayerPositionRound Pick Franchise
Glen Christian   HB 9th 105 San Francisco 49ers

One sophomore was selected in the 1953 NFL draft: [37]

PlayerPositionRound Pick Franchise
Don Ringe        T 26th 303  Chicago Cardinals  

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  2. ↑ "Vandals, Utah conduct final grid workouts". Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). Associated Press. September 23, 1950. p. 8.
  3. 1 2 "Vandals and Cougars scramble to muddy 7-7 tie". Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). Associated Press. October 29, 1950. p. 10.
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  17. 1 2 "Texas Western whips Idaho 43-33 in wild, free-scoring grid game". Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). Associated Press. October 8, 1950. p. 10.
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