1959 Kansas State Wildcats football team
| 1959 Kansas State Wildcats football | |
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| Conference | Big Seven Conference |
| Record | 2–8 (1–5 Big 7) |
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| Home stadium | Memorial Stadium |
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| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1959 Kansas State Wildcats football team represented Kansas State University in the 1959 college 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.
Schedule
[edit]| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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| September 19 | Wichita* | L 0–19 | 12,500 | ||
| September 26 | at South Dakota State* |
| W 28–12 | 4,500 | [2] |
| October 3 | at Oklahoma State* |
| L 21–28 | 8,500 | |
| October 10 | Colorado |
| L 17–20 | 10,000 | |
| October 17 | at Kansas | L 14–33 | 27,000 | ||
| October 24 | at Iowa State | L 0–26 | 13,899 | ||
| October 31 | at Iowa* | L 0–53 | 45,000 | ||
| November 7 | Oklahoma |
| L 0–36 | 11,204 | |
| November 14 | at Missouri | L 0–26 | 15,000 | ||
| November 21 | Nebraska |
| W 29–14 | 8,318 | |
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References
[edit]- ^ "1959 Kansas State Wildcats Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 7, 2019.
- ^ "Brief Summary Of Cumulative Football Statistics". National Collegiate Athletic Association. Retrieved December 24, 2022.
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