1959 Kansas State Wildcats football team

The 1959 Kansas State Wildcats football team represented Kansas State University in the 1959 NCAA University Division football season. The team's head football coach was Bus Mertes, in his last year at K-State. The Wildcats played their home games in Memorial Stadium. 1959 saw the Wildcats finish with a record of 2–8, and a 1–5 record in Big Seven Conference play. The Wildcats scored only 58 points while giving up 232.[1] The finished seventh in the Big Seven.

1959 Kansas State Wildcats football
ConferenceBig Eight Conference
1959 record2–8 (1–5 Big 7)
Head coach
Home stadiumMemorial Stadium
1959 Big Seven Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 15 Oklahoma $ 5 1 0  7 3 0
No. 18 Missouri 4 2 0  6 5 0
Colorado 3 3 0  5 5 0
Iowa State 3 3 0  7 3 0
Kansas 3 3 0  5 5 0
Nebraska 2 4 0  4 6 0
Kansas State 1 5 0  2 8 0
  • $ Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendance
September 19Wichita*L 0–19
September 26at South Dakota State*
W 28–12
October 3at Oklahoma State*
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Manhattan, Kansas
L 21–288,500
October 10Colorado
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Manhattan, KS
L 17–2010,000
October 17at KansasL 14–3327,000
October 24at Iowa StateL 0–2613,899
October 31at Iowa*L 0–5345,000
November 7No. 18 Oklahoma
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Manhattan, KS
L 0–3611,204
November 14at MissouriL 0–26
November 21Nebraska
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Manhattan, KS (rivalry)
W 29–148,318
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from Coaches' Poll released prior to the game

References

  1. "1959 Kansas State Wildcats Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 7, 2019.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.