1956 Santa Barbara Gauchos football team

1956 Santa Barbara Gauchos football
Citricado Bowl, L 14–25 vs. San Diego Marines
Conference	California Collegiate Athletic Association
Record	5–5 (1–1 CCAA)
Head coach	Ed Cody (1st season)
Home stadium	La Playa Stadium
Seasons ←  1955 1957  →

1956 California Collegiate Athletic Association football standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
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
No champion named for the 1956 season

The 1956 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team represented Santa Barbara College ^{[note 1]} during the 1956 NCAA 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	Source
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 *	La Playa Stadium Santa Barbara, CA	W 13–6
October 12	at Los Angeles State [note 2]	Reseda High School Reseda, CA	W 33–14
October 20	vs. Cal Aggies [note 3] *	California Memorial Stadium Berkeley, CA	L 6–14
October 27	Pomona-Claremont *	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 *	La Playa Stadium Santa Barbara, CA	W 33–0
December 1	vs. San Diego Marines [note 4] *	Escondido High School Escondido, CA (Citracado Bowl)	L 14–25
*Non-conference game

Notes

1. University of California, Santa Barbara was known as Santa Barbara College of the University of California from 1944 to 1957.
2. California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA) was known as Los Angeles State College of Applied Arts and Sciences from 1947 to 1963.
3. 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.
4. The Marine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD) in San Diego fielded a team that played against colleges and other military teams from 1922 to 1964.

References

1. Ron Kenney. "Escondido Reflections: The year Escondido hosted a bowl game". Archived from the original on February 6, 2017. Retrieved February 4, 2017.
2. Howard Hagen (November 11, 1956). "Magee Leads Aztecs To Fourth Win, 30-7". The San Diego Union. San Diego, California. p. B-1.