1958 UCLA Bruins football team

1958 UCLA Bruins football
ConferencePacific Coast Conference
Record3–6–1 (2–4–1 PCC)
Head coach
CaptainJim Steffen
Home stadiumLos Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Seasons
← 1957
1959 →
1958 Pacific Coast Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 16 California $ 6 1 0 7 4 0
Washington State 6 2 0 7 3 0
USC 4 2 1 4 5 1
Oregon State 5 3 0 6 4 0
Oregon 4 4 0 4 6 0
UCLA 2 4 1 3 6 1
Stanford 2 5 0 2 8 0
Washington 1 6 0 3 7 0
Idaho 0 3 0 4 5 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1958 UCLA Bruins football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Los Angeles in the Pacific Coast Conference during the 1958 college football season. In their first year under head coaches George W. Dickerson (three games) and then Bill Barnes (seven games),[1] the Bruins compiled a 3–6–1 record (2–4–1 in PCC, sixth).[2]

UCLA's offensive leaders in 1958 were quarterback Don Long with 395 passing yards, Ray Smith with 307 rushing yards, and John Brown with 259 receiving yards.[3]

Five weeks before the first game, head coach Red Sanders died of a heart attack at age 53 in a Los Angeles hotel room.[4][5] Dickerson was promoted to head coach several days later,[6] but after two hospitalizations for nervous exhaustion, Barnes was named head coach prior to the fourth game,[1][7] and remained through the 1964 season.[8]

  1. ^ a b "UCLA coach hospitalized". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. October 10, 1958. p. 2B.
  2. ^ "1958 UCLA Bruins Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 17, 2015.
  3. ^ "1958 UCLA Bruins Stats". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 17, 2015.
  4. ^ "UCLA grid boss taken by death". Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). Associated Press. August 15, 1958. p. 12.
  5. ^ "Death takes Red Sanders, UCLA coach". Bend Bulletin. (Oregon). UPI. August 15, 1958. p. 2.
  6. ^ "Assistant gets UCLA head coaching job". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. August 19, 1958. p. 3B.
  7. ^ "Florida downs UCLA by 21-14". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. October 11, 1958. p. 6.
  8. ^ "Barnes quits before UCLA has chance to fire him". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. December 21, 1964. p. 1D.