1939 Santa Barbara State Gauchos football team
American college football season
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The 1939 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team represented Santa Barbara State[note 1] during the 1939 college football season.
| 1939 Santa Barbara State Gauchos football | |
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| Conference | California Collegiate Athletic Association |
| Record | 5–4–1 (1–2 CCAA) |
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| Home stadium | La Playa Stadium |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| San Jose State $ | 3 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 13 | – | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fresno State | 1 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 10 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Santa Barbara State | 1 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| San Diego State | 0 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Santa Barbara was ranked at No. 120 (out of 609 teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939.[1]
1939 was the inaugural year for the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). Santa Barbara State was one of four charter members of the conference, along with Fresno State Normal School, San Diego State College and San Jose State College. The Gauchos were led by sixth-year head coach Theodore "Spud" Harder and played home games at La Playa Stadium in Santa Barbara, California. They finished the season with a record of five wins, four losses and one tie (5–4–1, 1–2 CCAA).
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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| September 22 | Occidental* | W 20–0 | [2] | ||
| September 29 | Willamette* |
| W 20–14 | ||
| October 6 | Fresno State |
| L 6–13 | [3] | |
| October 14 | San Diego Marines* |
| L 0–7 | [4] | |
| October 21 | San Francisco* |
| T 0–0 | [5] | |
| October 27 | at San Jose State | L 7–23 | |||
| November 3 | at California JV* |
| W 22–0 | ||
| November 17 | Colorado State–Greeley* |
| W 19–0 | ||
| November 25 | at San Diego State | W 19–0 | 4,000 | [6] | |
| December 1 | at Whittier* |
| L 0–10 | 4,000 | [7][8] |
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Notes
- University of California, Santa Barbara was known as Santa Barbara State College from 1921 to 1943.
