1955 Mississippi State Maroons football team

The 1955 Mississippi State Maroons football team represented Mississippi State College during the 1955 college football season. The team was led by second-year head coach Darrell Royal and compiled a 6–4 record, sixth in the Southeastern Conference.

1955 Mississippi State Maroons football
ConferenceSoutheastern Conference
1955 record64 (44 SEC)
Head coach
Home stadiumScott Field
(Capacity: 35,000)
1955 Southeastern Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 10 Ole Miss $ 5 1 0  10 1 0
No. 8 Auburn 5 2 1  8 2 1
No. 7 Georgia Tech 4 1 1  9 1 1
Tennessee 3 2 1  6 3 1
Vanderbilt 4 3 0  8 3 0
Mississippi State 4 4 0  6 4 0
Kentucky 3 3 1  6 3 1
Tulane 3 3 1  5 4 1
LSU 2 3 1  3 5 2
Florida 3 5 0  4 6 0
Georgia 2 5 0  4 6 0
Alabama 0 7 0  0 10 0
  • $ Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

Halfback Art Davis was named to the FWAA/Look Magazine All America Team and voted their College "Player of the Year". Guard Scott Suber was named to the first team NEA All America Team.

After the season, Royal left in late February for Washington in the Pacific Coast Conference.[1][2][3]

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResult
September 17at FloridaL 14–20
September 24at TennesseeW 13–7
October 1Memphis State*W 33–0
October 8TulaneW 14–0
October 15at No. 20 KentuckyW 20–14
October 22at AlabamaW 26–7
October 29North Texas State*W 20–7
November 5at No. 14 AuburnNo. 20L 26–27
November 12at LSUNo. 18L 7–34
November 26No. 15 Ole MissL 0–26
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
Source:[4]

References

  1. "Royal hired as UW coach". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. February 29, 1956. p. 21.
  2. "Royal gets 4-year contract; $17,000". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. March 1, 1956. p. 3D.
  3. "Washington hires Darrell Royal". news.google.com. Ludington Daily News. 1956-02-28.
  4. College Football @ Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved December 26, 2015
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