1937 Santa Barbara State Gauchos football team
| 1937 Santa Barbara State Gauchos football | |
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| Conference | Southern California Conference |
| Record | 5–2–2 (3–1–1 SCC) |
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| Home stadium | Peabody Stadium |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| San Diego State $ | 4 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Santa Barbara State | 3 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 5 | – | 2 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Redlands | 2 | – | 1 | – | 2 | 3 | – | 3 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Whittier | 2 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 2 | – | 6 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occidental | 1 | – | 2 | – | 2 | 2 | – | 2 | – | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| La Verne | 0 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 9 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1937 Santa Barbara State Gauchos football team represented Santa Barbara State[note 1] during the 1937 college football season.
Santa Barbara State competed in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC). The Gauchos were led by fourth-year head coach Theodore "Spud" Harder and played home games at Peabody Stadium in Santa Barbara, California. They finished the season with a record of five wins, two losses and two ties (5–2–2, 3–1–1 SCIAC). Overall, the team outscored its opponents 138–49 for the season.
Schedule[edit]
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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| September 24 | Occidental |
| T 0–0 | ||
| October 8 | Arizona State* |
| W 27–7 | ||
| October 15 | at Redlands |
| W 31–0 | ||
| October 22 | Texas Mines* |
| T 13–13 | [1] | |
| October 29 | at Whittier |
| W 20–0 | ||
| November 6 | La Verne |
| W 20–0 | ||
| November 13 | Nevada* |
| W 20–7 | ||
| November 20 | San Diego State |
| L 0–13 | 8,000 | [2] |
| December 4 | at New Mexico A&M* |
| L 7–9 | ||
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Team players in the NFL[edit]
No Santa Barbara Gaucho players were selected in the 1938 NFL Draft.[3][4][5]
The following finished their Santa Barbara career in 1937, were not drafted, but played in the NFL.
| Player | Position | First NFL team |
| Howie Yeager | Wingback | 1941 New York Giants |
Notes[edit]
- ^ University of California, Santa Barbara was known as Santa Barbara State College from 1921 to 1943.
- ^ This stadium is the predecessor to the current Ted Runner Stadium on the University of Redlands campus, which was opened for the 1968 season
References[edit]
- ^ "Miners Feted In Hollywood". El Paso Times. October 24, 1937. p. 20 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Ted Steinmann (November 21, 1937). "Aztecs Win 13-0; Keep League Title". The San Diego Union. San Diego, California.
- ^ "1938 NFL Draft". Archived from the original on November 23, 2010. Retrieved February 2, 2017.
- ^ "California-Santa Barbara Players/Alumni". Retrieved February 2, 2017.
- ^ "Draft History: California-Santa Barbara". Archived from the original on March 19, 2017. Retrieved March 18, 2017.