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1929 UCLA Bruins football
Conference Pacific Coast Conference
Record4–4 (1–3 PCC)
Head coach
Home stadium Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Seasons
←  1928
1930 →
1929 Pacific Coast Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 6 USC $ 6 1 0 10 2 0
Stanford 5 1 0 9 2 0
No. 4 California 4 1 0 7 1 1
Oregon 4 1 0 7 3 0
Washington State 4 2 0 10 2 0
UCLA 1 3 0 4 4 0
Oregon State 1 4 0 5 4 0
Idaho 1 4 0 4 5 0
Montana 0 4 1 3 5 1
Washington 0 5 1 2 6 1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1929 UCLA Bruins football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as a member of the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) during the 1929 college football season. In their fifth year under head coach William H. Spaulding, the Bruins compiled a 4–4 record (1-3 against PCC opponents), finished in sixth place in the PCC, and were outscored by a total of 190 to 121. [1]

The season opened with the first game played between UCLA and USC, ending in a 76–0 victory for USC. [2] UCLA's lone conference win was against Montana, 14–0, in the last game of the season. [1]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28at USCL 0–7635,000–50,000 [2]
October 5 Fresno State*
  • Westwood Field
  • Westwood, CA
W 56–6 [3]
October 12 Stanford
  • Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
  • Los Angeles, CA
L 0–5720,000 [4]
October 18at Caltech*W 31–015,000 [5]
October 26 Pomona*
  • Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
  • Los Angeles, CA
W 20–0 [6]
November 2at OregonL 0–27 [7]
November 16 Saint Mary's*
  • Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
  • Los Angeles, CA
L 0–2425,000 [8]
November 28 Montana
  • Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
  • Los Angeles, CA
W 14-010,000 [9]
  • *Non-conference game

[10]

Roster

The following is a partial list of student-athletes on UCLA's football roster during the 1929 season. [11]

  • Harold Bishop
  • Ansel Breiniman
  • Carl Brown
  • Jack Bryan
  • Ted Dennis
  • Ted Duffy
  • John Duncan
  • Norm Duncan
  • George Forster
  • Marion French
  • Alfred Gibson
  • Maurice Goodstein
  • Aubrey Grossman
  • Russell Huse
  • Don Jacobson
  • Glenwood Lloyd
  • Lloyd McMillan
  • Edward Milum
  • Richard Mulhaupt
  • Glenn Nelson
  • Harvey Nelson
  • Eugene Noble
  • Beverly Ogden
  • Bob Rasmus
  • Robert Reinhard
  • John Remsberg
  • Howard Roberts
  • Jerry Russom
  • Clifton Simpson
  • Arthur Smith
  • Chester Smith
  • Edward Solomon
  • Howard Stoeffen
  • Rueben Thoe
  • Leonard Wellendorf
  • Meyer Zimmerman

References

  1. ^ a b "1929 UCLA Bruins Schedule and Results". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on September 16, 2015. Retrieved December 17, 2015.
  2. ^ a b Braven Dyer (September 29, 1929). "Trojans Batter Bruins By 76 To 0 Score: Herd Hangs Up 12 Touchdowns". Los Angeles Times – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Bruins Swamp Fresno Eleven: U.C.L.A. Wallops Teachers by 56-6 Margin". Los Angeles Times. October 6, 1929 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Paul Lowry (October 13, 1929). "Stanford Warriors Easily Rout Bruins, 57 to 0". Los Angeles Times – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Bob Ray (October 19, 1929). "Bruins Wallop Caltech: Engineers Bowled Over by U.C.L.A., 31 to 0, in Rose Bowl Night Game; Forster Shines". Los Angeles Times – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Braven Dyer (October 27, 1929). "Sagehens Bow To Bruins, 20-0: Forster and Simpson Feature U.C.L.A. Victory". Los Angeles Times – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Ducks Beat Uclans in Listless Game: Webfoots Score Four Times Against Bruins for a 27 to 0 Count". Eugene Register. November 3, 1929. pp. 1, 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ Braven Dyer (November 17, 1929). "St. Mary's In Victory: Gaels Scored 24-to-0 Win Over Bruins to Become Only Unscored on Major Team in Country". Los Angeles Times – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ Frank Roche (November 29, 1929). "Bruins Upset Dope By Trimming Montana: First Conference Win Collected By U.C.L.A." Los Angeles Times – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "2015 UCLA Bruins Football Media Guide Year-by-Year Results" (PDF). Retrieved December 14, 2016.
  11. ^ "UCLA Bruins football - 1929 Database". Lost Lettermen. Archived from the original on December 18, 2015. Retrieved December 17, 2015.