1934 Idaho Vandals football team

1934 Idaho Vandals football
ConferencePacific Coast Conference
Record3–5 (1–4 PCC)
Head coach
Home stadiumMacLean Field
Seasons
← 1933
1935 →
1934 Pacific Coast Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 2 Stanford $ 5 – 0 – 0 9 – 1 – 1
Washington State 4 – 0 – 1 4 – 3 – 1
Washington 5 – 1 – 1 6 – 1 – 1
Oregon 4 – 2 – 0 6 – 4 – 0
California 3 – 2 – 0 6 – 6 – 0
UCLA 2 – 3 – 0 7 – 3 – 0
USC 1 – 4 – 1 4 – 6 – 1
Idaho 1 – 4 – 0 3 – 5 – 0
Oregon State 0 – 5 – 2 3 – 6 – 2
Montana 0 – 4 – 1 2 – 5 – 1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from Associated Press

The 1934 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1934 college football season. The Vandals were led by sixth-year head coach Leo Calland, and were members of the Pacific Coast Conference. Home games were played on campus in Moscow at MacLean Field, with none in Boise this year.

Idaho compiled a 3–5 overall record and lost all but one of its five games in the PCC.

In the Battle of the Palouse with neighbor Washington State, the Vandals suffered a seventh straight loss, falling 0–19 in Pullman on November 10.[1][2] Idaho's most recent win in the series was nine years earlier in 1925 and the next was twenty years away in 1954.

Calland resigned after the season in mid-December; he compiled a 21–30 (.412) record in six seasons on the Palouse, but his overmatched Vandals were just 5–25 (.167) in conference play, defeating only Montana.[3][4][5] He returned to southern California and coached at San Diego State College; his successor at Idaho was Ted Bank, the backs coach at Tulane of New Orleans, 10–1 in 1934 and Sugar Bowl champions.[6][7]

  1. ^ "Washington State Cougars blank Idaho Vandals in traditional tussle in fall fog". Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). Associated Press. November 11, 1934. p. 8.
  2. ^ "Cougars amaze Vandal eleven". Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). November 12, 1934. p. 13.
  3. ^ "Coach Leo Calland resigns as director of athletics at University of Idaho". Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). Associated Press. December 16, 1934. p. 9.
  4. ^ "Leo Calland resigns as coach". Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). Associated Press. December 15, 1934. p. 1.
  5. ^ "Gonzaga coach looks at Idaho". Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). December 17, 1934. p. 15.
  6. ^ "Ted Bank named Idaho grid coach". Pittsburgh Press. United Press. February 24, 1935. p. 3, sports.
  7. ^ "Idaho pleased with new coach from the South". Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). Associated Press. February 25, 1935. p. 1.