1964 UCLA Bruins football team

1964 UCLA Bruins football
ConferenceAthletic Association of Western Universities
Record4–6 (2–2 AAWU)
Head coach
Home stadiumLos Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Seasons
← 1963
1965 →
1964 Athletic Association of Western Universities football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 8 Oregon State ^ + 3 – 1 – 0 8 – 3 – 0
No. 10 USC + 3 – 1 – 0 7 – 3 – 0
Washington 5 – 2 – 0 6 – 4 – 0
UCLA 2 – 2 – 0 4 – 6 – 0
Stanford 3 – 4 – 0 5 – 5 – 0
Oregon 1 – 2 – 1 7 – 2 – 1
Washington State 1 – 2 – 1 3 – 6 – 1
California 0 – 4 – 0 3 – 7 – 0
  • + – Conference co-champions
  • ^ – Rose Bowl representative determined by longest absence, due to no head-to-head result and 4–4 tie in member vote.
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1964 UCLA Bruins football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Los Angeles during the 1964 NCAA University Division football season. In their seventh and final year under head coach Bill Barnes, the Bruins compiled a 4–6 record (2–2 AAWU) and finished in fourth place in the Athletic Association of Western Universities.[1]

UCLA's offensive leaders in 1964 were quarterback Larry Zeno with 1,363 passing yards and 325 rushing yards, and Mike Haffner with 515 receiving yards.[2]

A month after the season, Barnes resigned as head coach in December,[3] and was succeeded by Tommy Prothro, head coach at eighth-ranked Oregon State for ten seasons and a former UCLA assistant.[4][5][6]

  1. ^ "1964 UCLA Bruins Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 17, 2015.
  2. ^ "1964 UCLA Bruins Stats". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 17, 2015.
  3. ^ "Barnes quits before UCLA has chance to fire him". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. December 21, 1964. p. 1D.
  4. ^ "Tom Prothro joins Bruins". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. January 12, 1965. p. 12.
  5. ^ "Prothro selected by UCLA as head football coach". Lodi News-Sentinel. (California). UPI. January 12, 1965. p. 8.
  6. ^ "Prothro leaving Oregon State for UCLA coaching job". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). AP, UPI reports. January 12, 1965. p. 3B.