1952 Cal Poly San Dimas Broncos football team

The 1952 Cal Poly San Dimas Broncos football team represented Cal Poly Voorhis Unit[note 1] during the 1952 college football season. Cal Poly played as an independent in 1952.

1952 Cal Poly San Dimas Broncos football
ConferenceIndependent
1952 record4–4
Head coach
  • Duane Whitehead (4th season)
1952 Western college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Pacific (CA)   –    7 –3 –1
San Jose State   –    6 –3 –0
La Verne   –    5 –3 –1
Hawaii   –    5 –5 –2
Cal Poly San Dimas   –    4 –4 –0
Nevada   –    2 –3 –0
Santa Clara   –    2 –6 –1

Cal Poly San Dimas was led by fourth-year head coach Duane Whitehead. Whitehead had been head coach from 1948–1950, but had been replaced by Don Rees for the 1951 season. The Broncos finished the season with a record of four wins and four losses (4–4). Overall, the team was outscored by its opponents 159–224 for the season. Whitehead finished his four-year tenure at Cal Poly San Dimas with a record of 13–22–1, for a .375 winning percentage.

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResult
?[1]Palomar College?W 40–6
September 26at Chaffey CollegeOntario, CAL 0–48
October 4Imperial Valley College
L 7–13
October 11Oceanside-Carlsbad Junior College[note 2]
W 40–13
October 24La Verne
  • Bonita High School
  • La Verne, CA
L 21–28
November 1at Humboldt State[note 3]
L 0–72[2]
November 14[3]at Cal Poly Freshmen[note 4]San Luis Obispo, CA no record[note 5]
November 21Caltech
W 19–18
November 27at Citrus CollegeGlendora, CAW 32–26

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Team players in the NFL

No Cal Poly San Dimas players were selected in the 1953 NFL Draft.[7][8][9]

Notes
  1. California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona) was located in San Dimas, California and known as Cal Poly Voorhis Unit from 1938 to 1956. However, it was more commonly known as Cal Poly (San Dimas).
  2. MiraCosta College was known as Oceanside-Carlsbad Junior College from 1934 to 1963.
  3. Humboldt State University was known as Humboldt State College from 1935 to 1971.
  4. The official name of Cal Poly is California Polytechnic State University. However, it has been more commonly known as either Cal Poly San Luis Obispo or just Cal Poly since 1947.
  5. No record of the result of this game has been located.

References
  1. Both cfbwarehouse.com and the PDF published by Cal Poly Pomona list a game vs. Palomar JC in 1952, but no contemporaneous newspaper article has been located.
  2. "Broncos Humbled by Humboldt State". Covina Argus. Covina, California. November 7, 1952. p. 10. Retrieved March 11, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Cal Poly Will Go Against Redlands". The Fresno Bee. Fresno, California. November 13, 1952. p. 21. Retrieved October 26, 2017 – via Newspapers.com. Note: Both cfbwarehouse.com and the PDF published by Cal Poly Pomona do not list this game.
  4. "1952 - Cal Poly-Pomona". Retrieved February 23, 2017.
  5. "Cal Poly Pomona football (1947‐1982)" (PDF). Retrieved February 23, 2017.
  6. cfbwarehouse.com and the Nevada (Reno) media guide list an additional game against University of Nevada (Reno). However, the PDF from Cal Poly Pomona and all 1952 accounts of the schedules and results for both teams do not list such a game.
  7. "1953 NFL Draft". Retrieved February 23, 2017.
  8. "Cal Poly-Pomona Players/Alumni". Retrieved February 23, 2017.
  9. "Draft History: Cal Poly-Pomona". Retrieved March 18, 2017.
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