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1955 Pacific Tigers football team

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1955 Pacific Tigers football
Conference	Independent
Record	5–4
Head coach	Jack Myers (3rd season)
Home stadium	Pacific Memorial Stadium
Seasons ← 1954 1956 →

1955 Western college football independents records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Long Beach State		–		5	–	2	–	0
Hawaii		–		7	–	4	–	0
San Jose State		–		5	–	3	–	1
Cal Poly San Dimas		–		4	–	3	–	0
La Verne		–		5	–	4	–	0
Pacific (CA)		–		5	–	4	–	0
Air Force		–		4	–	4	–	0
Pepperdine		–		5	–	5	–	0
UC Riverside		–		1	–	3	–	1

The 1955 Pacific Tigers football team represented the College of the Pacific^{[note 1]} during the 1955 college football season.

Pacific competed as an independent in 1955. They played home games in Pacific Memorial Stadium^{[note 2]}inStockton, California. In their third season under head coach Jack Myers, the Tigers finished with a record of five wins and four losses (5–4). For the season they outscored their opponents 132–121.

Schedule[edit]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 17	atStanford	Stanford Stadium Stanford, CA	L 14–33
September 24	at No. 19Purdue	Ross–Ade Stadium West Lafayette, IN	L 7–14	44,500
October 1	Cincinnati	Pacific Memorial Stadium Stockton, CA	W 27–14
October 8	atIdaho	Neale Stadium Moscow, ID	W 20–0	9,500	^[1]^[2]
October 15	Oregon State	Pacific Memorial Stadium Stockton, CA	W 13–7	22,500	^[3]
October 22	atSan Jose State	Spartan Stadium San Jose, CA	W 14–7
October 29	Washington State	Pacific Memorial Stadium Stockton, CA	W 30–0	12,000	^[4]
November 5	No. 5UCLA	Pacific Memorial Stadium Stockton, CA	L 0–34	26,000
November 19	atTexas Tech	Jones Stadium Lubbock, TX	L 7–13	16,500
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

^[5]

Team players in the NFL[edit]

The following College of the Pacific players were selected in the 1956 NFL Draft.^[6]^[7]^[8]

Player	Position	Round	Overall	NFL team
A.D. Williams	End – Flanker	3	32	Los Angeles Rams
Gene Cronin	Defensive end – Linebacker – Guard	7	74	Detroit Lions

The following finished their college career in 1955, were not drafted, but played in the NFL.

Player	Position	First NFL team
Clyde Conner	End	1956 San Francisco 49ers

Notes[edit]

^ University of the Pacific (UOP) was known as College of the Pacific from 1911 to 1961.

^ Amos Alonzo Stagg Memorial Stadium was known as Pacific Memorial Stadium from its opening in 1950 through 1987.

References[edit]

^ "COP Tigers crush Idaho, 20-0". Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). Associated Press. October 9, 1955. p. 11.

^ Boni, Bill (October 9, 1955). "Rough, tough Tigers humble Idaho, 20-0". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). p. 2, sports.

^ "Football Scores". The San Bernardino County Sun. San Bernardino, California. October 16, 1955. p. 45. Retrieved October 31, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.

^ "Football Scores". The San Bernardino County Sun. San Bernardino, California. October 30, 1955. p. 25. Retrieved October 31, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.

^ "1955 - Pacific (CA)". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on September 10, 2015. Retrieved January 30, 2017.

^ "1956 NFL Draft". Archived from the original on November 26, 2010. Retrieved December 7, 2016.

^ "Pacific Players/Alumni". Retrieved January 30, 2017.

^ "Draft History: U. of Pacific". Retrieved March 18, 2017.

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