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The 1950 Stanford Indians football team represented
Stanford University in the
1950 college football season . Stanford was led by sixth-year head coach
Marchmont Schwartz . The team were members of the
Pacific Coast Conference and played their home games at
Stanford Stadium in
Stanford, California .
Coming off the successful
1949 season in which a talented group of sophomores, led by quarterback
Gary Kerkorian and end
Bill McColl , had the Indians a game away from the
Rose Bowl , Stanford was expected to have an excellent season and was ranked 7th in the first-ever preseason
AP Poll .
[1]
[2] But after starting 4–0, the team would only win one more game and tie twice, the second tie coming in the
Big Game , in which the team rallied to tie undefeated and Rose Bowl-bound rival
California .
[2]
[3] Coach Schwartz resigned following the season.
[4]
Schedule
Date Opponent Rank Site Result Attendance Source September 23
San Jose State * No. 7 W 33–16
September 30
San Francisco * No. 7 Stanford Stadium Stanford, CA W 55–735,000
[5]
October 7 at
Oregon State No. 8 W 21–716,000
October 14
Santa Clara * No. 6 Stanford Stadium Stanford, CA W 23–1329,000
[6]
October 21 at
UCLA No. 6 L 7–2158,143
October 28
Washington Stanford Stadium Stanford, CA L 7–2132,474
November 4
USC Stanford Stadium Stanford, CA (
reivalry ) T 7–740,000
November 11
Washington State Stanford Stadium Stanford, CA W 28–1815,000
November 18 No. 3
Army * Stanford Stadium Stanford, CA L 0–7
November 25 at No. 4
California T 7–7
*Non-conference game Rankings from
AP Poll released prior to the game
Players drafted by the NFL
[7]
References
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"1950 Preseason AP Football Poll" . CollegePollArchive.com. Retrieved September 9, 2011 .
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a
b Migdol, Gary (1997).
Stanford: Home of Champions . Champaign, Illinois: Sports Publishing LLC. pp. 112–114.
ISBN
1-57167-116-1 .
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"Stanford Game-by-Game Results; 1950–1954" . College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from
the original on 2011-10-19. Retrieved September 9, 2011 .
^
"Schwartz out at Stanford" . Miami News . December 30, 1950. Retrieved September 9, 2011 .
^ Bob Brachman (October 1, 1950).
"Stanford Steamrollers USF, 55-7! Thumping by Indians Worst in Don History; Cards Shut Gates of Mercy; 35,000 See Matson Completely Bottled Up" . The San Francisco Examiner . pp. 22, 26 – via
Newspapers.com .
^ Harry M. Hayward (October 15, 1950).
"Stanford Pushes Over Broncos, 23-13: Cards Forced to Go All Out for Victory" . The San Francisco Examiner . pp. 24, 28 – via
Newspapers.com .
^
"1951 NFL Draft" . Archived from
the original on December 10, 2010. Retrieved August 5, 2014 .
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