UCLA Bruins Football

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The UCLA Bruins football team is a member of the Pac-10 Conference. The football program had its best success in the 1980s and 1990s, under head coach Terry Donahue. The Bruins compiled a 151-74-8 record under Coach Donahue including 13 bowl games, and an NCAA record 8 straight bowl wins. They are one of the best football programs to have started past 1915. The program has produced 28 first round draft picks, 30 consensus All-Americans, 1 Heisman Trophy winner (Gary Beban), and 2 Outland Trophy winners (Jonathan Ogden and Kris Farris).

Contents

1 Team information
2 Chronology of UCLA Head Coaches
3 Notable Players
4 Notable games
5 School records

5.1 Team records
5.2 Individual records

6 References
7 External links

Team information

Nickname: Bruins
Uniforms:

Home:
Road:
Alternate home:
Alternate road:

Stadium: Rose Bowl (91,136 capacity)
Fight Song: Sons of Westwood
Mascot:
Marching Band:
Traditional Rivals: USC
National Championships: One (1954)
Conference Championships: Seventeen (eleven outright)
Conference History:

1919 – present: Pac-10

Bowl Appearances: 27 (13-13-1)
All time record: 521-338-37 (.607)

Chronology of UCLA Head Coaches

Years	Coach	Record
1919	Fred Cozens	2–6
1920–1922	Harry Trotter	2–13–1
1923–1924	James Cline	2–10–3
1925–1938	William Spaulding	72–51–8
1939–1944	Cowin Horrell	24–31–6
1945–1948	Bert Labrucheire	23–16
1949–1957	Henry Sanders	66–19–1
1958	George Dickerson	1–2

Years	Coach	Record
1958–1964	Bill Barnes	31–34–3
1965–1970	Tommy Prothro	41–18–3
1971–1973	Pepper Rodgers	19–12–1
1974–1975	Dick Vermeil	15–5–3
1976–1995	Terry Donahue	151–74–8
1996–2001	Bob Toledo	49–32
2002–present	Karl Dorrell	12–13

Notable Players

Burr Baldwin
Donn Moomaw
Paul Cameron
Jack Ellena
Hardiman Cureton
Dick Wallen
Mel Farr
Gary Beban
Don Manning
Mike Ballou
Kermit Johnson
John Sciarra
Jerry Robinson
Kenny Easley
Tim Wrightman
Don Rogers
John Lee
Troy Aikman
Darryl Henley
Carlton Gray
J.J. Stokes
Bjorn Merten
Jamir Miller
Jonathan Ogden
Chad Overhauser
Cade McNown
Kris Farris
Fred Mitchell
Robert Thomas
Dave Bell

Notable games

See UCLA vs Stanford (2005)

School records

Team records

Consecutive wins: 10, 1954-1955;
Consecutive wins at Home: 12, 1946-1947;
Consecutive games without being shutout: 60, 1994-1999
Consecutive shutouts of opponents: 3, 1954-1955

Individual records

Most rushing yards(game): 322 Maurice Drew against University of Washington
Most rushing yards(season): 1,571 Karim Abdul-Jabbar in the 1995 season
Most rushing yards(career): 3,731 Gaston Green 1984-1987
Most passing yards(game): 513 Drew Olson against Arizona State
Most passing yards(season): 3,470 Cade McNown in the 1998 season
Most passing yards(career): 10,708 Cade McNown 1995-1998
Most receiving yards(game): 263 J.J. Stokes against USC
Most receiving yards(season): 1,494 Freddie Mitchell in the 2000 season
Most receiving yards(career): 3,020 Danny Farmer 1996-1999

References

ESPN College Football Encyclopedia(Pages 908-915)

External links

[Official site]

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