1952_Stanford_Indians_football_team

1952 Stanford Indians football team

1952 Stanford Indians football team

American college football season

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.

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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]

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Players drafted by the NFL

PlayerPositionRoundPickNFL club
Bob MathiasBack30352Washington Redskins

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References

  1. [1]
    "1952 Preseason AP Football Poll". College Poll Archive. Retrieved August 5, 2014.
  2. [2]
    "Stanford Game-by-Game Results; 1952–1956". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on August 8, 2014. Retrieved August 5, 2014.
  3. [3]
    Eule, Brian (November–December 2006). "The Champion". Stanford Magazine. Retrieved August 5, 2014.
  4. [4]
    Bob Brachman (September 21, 1952). "Cards Slap Broncs, 28-13: Stanford Roars From 'Way Back to Nail It". The San Francisco Examiner. p. 37 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. [5]
    "1953 NFL Draft". Archived from the original on October 30, 2010. Retrieved August 5, 2014.
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