1936 Santa Barbara State Gauchos football team
American college football season
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The 1936 Santa Barbara State Gauchos football team represented Santa Barbara State[note 1] during the 1936 college football season.
- Spud Harder (3rd season)
| 1936 Santa Barbara State Gauchos football | |
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| Conference | Southern California Conference |
| Record | 9â1 (4â1 SCC) |
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| Home stadium | Peabody Stadium |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| San Diego State $ | 5 | â | 0 | â | 0 | 6 | â | 1 | â | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Santa Barbara State | 4 | â | 1 | â | 0 | 9 | â | 1 | â | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Whittier | 3 | â | 2 | â | 0 | 5 | â | 5 | â | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Redlands | 2 | â | 3 | â | 0 | 2 | â | 6 | â | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occidental | 1 | â | 4 | â | 0 | 3 | â | 5 | â | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| La Verne | 0 | â | 5 | â | 0 | 1 | â | 7 | â | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Santa Barbara State competed in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC). The Gauchos were led by third-year head coach Theodore "Spud" Harder and played home games in Santa Barbara, California, some at Peabody Stadium and others at Pershing Field. They finished the season with a record of nine wins and one loss (9â1, 4â1 SCIAC), with the only blemish a one-point loss to San Diego State. Overall, the team outscored its opponents 223â43 for the season. The Gauchos had five shutouts, and held the other team to a touchdown or less in 8 of 10 games.
Four Santa Barbara players were selected as first-team players on the All-Southern Conference football team for 1936: guard Doug Oldershaw, tackle Claire Busby, end Al Young, and halfback Howard Yeager. Center D. Hart and halfback Bob Morelli received second-team honors. Yeager averaged 10.7 yards per carry in 1936.[1]
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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| September 25 | Caltech* |
| W 37â6 | [2] | |||
| October 3 | at Arizona StateâFlagstaff* |
| W 13â6 | [3] | |||
| October 9 | Redlands |
| W 13â0 | [4] | |||
| October 18 | La Verne |
| W 24â0 | [5] | |||
| October 23 | Whittier |
| W 26â0 | 6,000 | [6] | ||
| October 31 | at Nevada* | W 13â0 | 3,500 | [7] | |||
| November 7 | San Francisco State* |
| W 37â7 | [8] | |||
| November 13 | Occidental |
| W 27â0 | [9] | |||
| November 21 | at San Diego State | L 8â9 | 9,000 | [10] | |||
| December 25 | New Mexico A&M* |
| W 25â14 | 6,000 | [11] | ||
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Notes
- University of California, Santa Barbara was known as Santa Barbara State College from 1921 to 1943.
- This stadium is the predecessor to the current Mackay Stadium, which was opened for the 1966 season."University of Nevada, Reno; Mackay Stadium". Retrieved January 4, 2017.