1958 Brown Bears football team
American college football season
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The 1958 Brown Bears football team was an American football team that represented Brown University as a member of the Ivy League during the 1958 college football season.
| 1958 Brown Bears football | |
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| Conference | Ivy League |
| Record | 6–3 (4–3 Ivy) |
| Head coach |
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| Captain | Don Warburton |
| Home stadium | Brown Stadium |
In their eighth and final season under head coach Alva Kelley, the Bears compiled a 6–3 record and outscored opponents 211 to 140. Don Warburton was the team captain.[1]
The Bears' 4–3 conference record tied for fourth place in the Ivy League. They outscored Ivy opponents 136 to 128.[2]
Brown played its home games at Brown Stadium in Providence, Rhode Island.
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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| September 27 | at Columbia | W 22–0 | 8,500 | [3] | |||
| October 4 | Yale |
| W 35–29 | 17,600 | [4] | ||
| October 11 | Dartmouth
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| L 0–20 | 17,000 | [5] | ||
| October 18 | at Penn | L 20–21 | 16,921 | [6] | |||
| October 25 | Rhode Island* |
| W 47–6 | 13,000 | [7] | ||
| November 1 | at Princeton | L 18–28 | 28,000 | [8][9] | |||
| November 8 | Cornell |
| W 12–8 | 15,500 | [10] | ||
| November 15 | at Harvard | W 29–22 | 15,000 | [11] | |||
| November 27 | Colgate* |
| W 28–6 | 8,000 | [12] | ||
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