1951 Santa Barbara Gauchos football team

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1951 Santa Barbara Gauchos football
Conference California Collegiate Athletic Association
Record5–4 (1–3 CCAA)
Head coach
Home stadium La Playa Stadium
Seasons
  1950
1952  
1951 California Collegiate Athletic Association football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
San Diego State $ 4 0 010 0 1
Cal Poly 2 1 15 4 1
Pepperdine 2 1 15 4 1
Santa Barbara 1 3 05 4 0
Los Angeles State 0 4 01 7 0
  • $ Conference champion

The 1951 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team represented Santa Barbara College [note 1] during the 1951 college football season.

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Santa Barbara competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). The team was led by third-year head coach Roy Engle and played home games at La Playa Stadium in Santa Barbara, California. They finished the season with a record of five wins and four losses (5–4, 1–3 CCAA).

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29at Pomona *
W 48–20
October 58:15 p.m. Occidental *W 27–256,000 [1] [2] [3]
October 12at Fresno State *W 23–226,152 [4]
October 20 Whittier
  • La Playa Stadium
  • Santa Barbara, CA
W 19–12
November 3vs. Cal Aggies [note 2] L 7–13
November 10at Cal Poly *L 7–14
November 16 Los Angeles State *
  • La Playa Stadium
  • Santa Barbara, CA
W 26–0 [5]
November 22at San Diego State L 0–407,000 [6]
November 30 Pepperdine *
  • La Playa Stadium
  • Santa Barbara, CA
L 6–26

Notes

  1. University of California, Santa Barbara was known as Santa Barbara College of the University of California from 1944 to 1957.
  2. The game against the Cal Aggies was part of an "All-UC Doubleheader" that was held annually from 1948 to 1963. The other game of the double-header was California vs. UCLA. The games were always held at the home stadium of either Cal or UCLA.

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