1951 Cal Aggies football team
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American college football season
| 1951 Cal Aggies football | |
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FWC champion | |
Pear Bowl, L 7–25 vs. Pacific (OR) | |
| Conference | Far Western Conference |
| Record | 5–4 (3–1 FWC) |
| Head coach |
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| Captain | Don Lehman |
| Home stadium | Aggie Field |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cal Aggies $ | 3 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| San Francisco State | 2 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Humboldt State | 2 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 3 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Southern Oregon | 1 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 1 | – | 8 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chico State | 0 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1951 Cal Aggies football team represented the College of Agriculture at Davis—now known as the University of California, Davis—as a member of the Far Western Conference (FWC) during the 1951 college football season. Led by third-year head coach Ted Forbes, the Aggies compiled an overall record of 5–4 with a mark of 3–1 in conference play, winning the FWC title. As FWC champion, they were invited to a postseason bowl game, the Pear Bowl, played in Medford, Oregon, where they lost to the Pacific Badgers of Forest Grove, Oregon, co-champions of the Northwest Conference. The Cal Aggies outscored their opponents 175 to 160 for the season. They played home games at Aggie Field in Davis, California.
Schedule
[edit ]| Date | Time | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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| September 22 | Fresno State * | L 0–27 | 2,000 | [1] | ||
| September 28 | at Occidental * |
| L 13–14 | [2] | ||
| October 13 | at Humboldt State | W 27–13 | ||||
| October 20 | California JV [note 1] * |
| W 30–21 | |||
| October 27 | Southern Oregon |
| W 39–7 | |||
| November 3 | vs. Santa Barbara [note 2] * | W 13–7 | ||||
| November 9 | 8:00 p.m. | Chico State |
| W 34–21 | [3] [4] | |
| November 16 | at San Francisco State | L 12–25 | ||||
| November 24 | vs. Pacific (OR) * | L 7–25 | [5] | |||
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Notes
[edit ]- ^ The University of California JV team was commonly known as the "Cal Ramblers".
- ^ The game against Santa Barbara 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.
References
[edit ]- ^ "Fresno State 2016 Media Guide" (PDF). Retrieved December 8, 2016.
- ^ "Oxy Edges Out Aggies, 14-13". Los Angeles Times . Los Angeles, California. September 29, 1951. p. 4, part III. Retrieved February 28, 2024 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon .
- ^ "Aggie Defeat Santa Barbara1 13-7, Meet Chico State Here Tomorrow". Davis Enterprise . Davis, California. November 8, 1951. p. 1. Retrieved February 3, 2025 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon .
- ^ Smolich, Marco (November 10, 1951). "Favored Aggies Come From Behind To Beat Chico, 34-21". The Sacramento Bee . Sacramento, California. p. 10. Retrieved February 3, 2025 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon .
- ^ "Pacific Victor In Pear Bowl". Albany Democrat-Herald (Albany, Oregon). November 26, 1951. p. 9. Retrieved July 11, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.Open access icon
- ^ "Brief Summary Of Cumulative Football Statistics". National Collegiate Athletic Association . Retrieved May 11, 2022.
- ^ "UC Davis Football 2015: Team Information Guide" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 8, 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2017.