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1956 Santa Barbara Gauchos football team

1956 Santa Barbara Gauchos football
Citricado Bowl, L 14–25 vs. San Diego Marines
Conference California Collegiate Athletic Association
1956 record 5–5 (1–1 CCAA)
Head coach Ed Cody (1st season)
Home stadium La Playa Stadium
(Capacity: 10,000)
Seasons
← 1955
1957 →
1956 California Collegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Fresno State 2 0 0     8 2 0
San Diego State 2 1 0     4 3 2
Santa Barbara 1 1 0     5 5 0
Los Angeles State 0 1 0     3 5 1
Cal Poly 0 2 0     7 3 0
  • No champion named for the 1956 season
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1956 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team represented Santa Barbara College during the 1956 College Division football season.

Santa Barbara competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). The team was led by first-year head coach Ed Cody, and played home games at La Playa Stadium in Santa Barbara, California. They finished the season with a record of five wins and five losses (5–5, 1–1 CCAA). At the end of the season, but Gauchos accepted an invitation to play in a charity bowl game. The game was the first and only Citricado Bowl, played at Escondido High School in Escondido, California against a military team from Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego.

No Santa Barbara Gaucho players were selected in the 1957 NFL Draft.


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