1959 Washington Huskies football team

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1959 Washington Huskies football
Washington Huskies logo.svg
AAWU co-champion
Rose Bowl champion
Rose Bowl, W 44–8 vs. Wisconsin
Conference Athletic Association of Western Universities
Ranking
CoachesNo. 7
APNo. 8
Record10–1 (3–1 AAWU)
Head coach
Assistant coach Bert Clark
Defensive coordinatorTom Tipps
Captain(game captains)
Home stadium Husky Stadium
Seasons
←  1958
1960  →
1959 Athletic Association of Western Universities football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 8 Washington ^ + 3 –1 –010 –1 –0
No. 14 USC + 3 –1 –08 –2 –0
UCLA + 3 –1 –05 –4 –1
California 1 –3 –02 –8 –0
Stanford 0 –4 –03 –7 –0
  • + – Conference co-champions
  • ^ – Selected as Rose Bowl representative
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1959 Washington Huskies football team represented the University of Washington during the 1959 NCAA University Division football season. Home games were played on campus in Seattle at Husky Stadium.

Contents

In its third season under head coach Jim Owens, Washington was 9–1 in the regular season and 3–1 in the Athletic Association of Western Universities, one of three co-champions of the five-team AAWU (Big Five) in its inaugural year. The Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) had disbanded in the spring, and the AAWU consisted of the four teams from state of California and the Huskies. The other four PCC teams from the north (Oregon, Oregon State, Washington State, and Idaho) were independent for several years. (Washington defeated all four this season.) The Cougars joined the league in 1962 and the Oregon schools in 1964; it was later renamed the Pacific-8 Conference.

Led on the field by junior All-American quarterback Bob Schloredt, [1] the Huskies started the season unranked and gained the Rose Bowl berth. [2] Eighth-ranked, they were a 6½-point underdog to the #6 Wisconsin Badgers (7–2), the champions of the Big Ten. [3] On New Year's Day in Pasadena, Washington jumped out to a 17–0 lead in the first quarter and won in a 44–8 rout to finish the season at 10–1. [1] [4] [5] [6] The Rose Bowl victory was the first for a West Coast team in seven years, [5] and only the second since the end of World War II; the loser both times was Wisconsin. [1] [7]

Washington outscored its opponents 253 to 73, [8] and outside the sole loss to USC, [9] [10] they allowed no more than twelve points in each of their other ten games, with four shutouts. The final rankings in this era were released in early December, at the end of the regular season and prior to the bowl games. [11] [12] [13]

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 19at Colorado *
W 21–1227,000 [14] [15]
September 26 Idaho *
W 23–024,476 [16] [17]
October 3 Utah *
  • Husky Stadium
  • Seattle, WA
W 51–627,560 [18]
October 10 Stanford
  • Husky Stadium
  • Seattle, WA
W 10–036,713 [19]
October 17No. 7 USC No. 18
  • Husky Stadium
  • Seattle, WA
L 15–2254,497 [9] [10]
October 24at No. 11 Oregon *
W 13–1237,000 [20] [21] [22]
October 31at UCLA No. 17
W 23–732,838 [23] [24]
November 7 Oregon State *No. 12
  • Husky Stadium
  • Seattle, WA
W 13–645,317 [25] [26]
November 14at California No. 13
W 20–038,800 [27] [28]
November 21 Washington State *No. 14
W 20–055,782 [29] [30] [31]
January 1, 1960vs. No. 6 Wisconsin *No. 8
W 44–8100,809 [1] [4] [5]
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

All-Coast

Professional football draft selections

No University of Washington Huskies were selected in the 1960 NFL draft, which lasted twenty rounds with 240 selections. [32] or in the inaugural 1960 AFL Draft, which lasted thirty-three rounds with 264 selections.

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References

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  9. 1 2 "Troy defeats UW". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. October 18, 1959. p. 2, sports.
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