1956 Santa Barbara Gauchos football team

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1956 Santa Barbara Gauchos football
Citricado Bowl, L 14–25 vs. San Diego Marines
Conference California Collegiate Athletic Association
Record5–5 (1–1 CCAA)
Head coach
Home stadium La Playa Stadium
Seasons
  1955
1957  
1956 California Collegiate Athletic Association football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Fresno State 2 0 08 2 0
San Diego State 2 1 04 3 2
Santa Barbara 1 1 05 5 0
Los Angeles State 0 1 03 5 1
Cal Poly 0 2 07 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 college football season.

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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

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 22at Whittier *
W 34–0
September 28 Occidental *W 31–6
October 6 Long Beach State *
  • La Playa Stadium
  • Santa Barbara, CA
W 13–6
October 12at Los Angeles State W 33–14
October 20vs. Cal Aggies [note 2] *L 6–14
October 27 Pomona-Claremont *
  • La Playa Stadium
  • Santa Barbara, CA
L 14–15
November 3at Pepperdine *
L 9–21
November 10 San Diego State
  • La Playa Stadium
  • Santa Barbara, CA
L 7–304,000 [2]
November 16 Sacramento State *
  • La Playa Stadium
  • Santa Barbara, CA
W 33–0
December 1vs. San Diego Marines [note 3] *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. 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.
  3. The Marine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD) in San Diego fielded a team that played against colleges and other military teams from 1922 to 1964.

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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.