1952 Stanford Indians football team

1952 Stanford Indians football

Conference	Pacific Coast Conference
1952 record	5–5 (2–5 PCC)
Head coach	Chuck Taylor (2nd year)
Home stadium	Stanford Stadium

1952 PCC football standings
	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
#5 USC $	6	–	0	–	0	10	–	1	–	0
#6 UCLA	5	–	1	–	0	8	–	1	–	0
Washington	6	–	2	–	0	7	–	3	–	0
California	3	–	3	–	0	7	–	3	–	0
Washington State	3	–	4	–	0	4	–	6	–	0
Stanford	2	–	5	–	0	5	–	5	–	0
Oregon	2	–	5	–	0	2	–	7	–	1
Idaho	1	–	3	–	0	4	–	4	–	1
Oregon State	1	–	6	–	0	2	–	7	–	0

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

The 1952 Stanford Indians football team represented Stanford University in the 1952 college football season. The team was led by head coach Chuck Taylor in his second year and played their home games at Stanford Stadium in Stanford, California.

After winning the conference and making it to the Rose Bowl in the previous season, the team was ranked #13 in preseason polls.^[1] After winning their first four games, the team lost five of the last six games, including a 26–0 Big Game shutout—its worst loss to rival California in more than half a century—to finish well out of the conference championship.^[2]

Running back Bob Mathias, who had won his second gold medal in the decathlon earlier in the summer at the 1952 Summer Olympics, was Stanford's only 1953 NFL Draft selection.^[3]

Schedule

Date	Opponent^#	Rank^#	Site	Result
September 20	Santa Clara*	No. 13	Stanford Stadium • Stanford, CA	W 28–13
September 27	at No. 15 Washington State	No. 13	Rogers Field • Pullman, WA	W 14–13
October 4	Michigan*		Stanford Stadium • Stanford, CA	W 14–7
October 11	Oregon State		Stanford Stadium • Stanford, CA	W 41–28
October 18	at No. 10 UCLA	No. 13	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA	L 14–24
October 25	Washington		Stanford Stadium • Stanford, CA	L 14–27
November 1	San Jose State*		Stanford Stadium • Stanford, CA (Rivalry)	W 35–13
November 8	No. 6 USC		Stanford Stadium • Stanford, CA (Rivalry)	L 7–54
November 15	Oregon		Stanford Stadium • Stanford, CA	L 20–21
November 20	at California		California Memorial Stadium • Berkeley, CA (55th Big Game)	L 0–26
*Non-conference game. ^#Rankings from AP Poll.

Players drafted by the NFL

Player	Position	Round	Pick	NFL Club
Bob Mathias	Back	30	352	Washington Redskins

^[4]

References

↑ "1952 Preseason AP Football Poll". College Poll Archive. Retrieved August 5, 2014.
↑ "Stanford Game-by-Game Results; 1952–1956". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved August 5, 2014.
↑ Eule, Brian (November–December 2006). "The Champion". Stanford Magazine. Retrieved August 5, 2014.
↑ "1953 NFL Draft". Retrieved August 5, 2014.

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