UCLA at Kansas

Saturday, September 25, 1954

No. 8 UCLA beat Kansas 32–⁠7. It was their second meeting; after it, UCLA led the series 2–⁠0.

Away8UCLA9–⁠0 in 1954
32
HomeKansas0–⁠10 in 1954
7

FinalHigh 75°F, low 64°FAttendance 22,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Maryland

    Evening star, District of Columbia, September 28, 1954, page 21

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    Maryland take a walk and sleep Az hours upon arrival and then go through light workout near the hotel. The latter is a departure from Iatum custom. but the team still will not work out “a hours before game time. Big Jim said Maryland would be ready now for UCLA if the latter were a Information team. but with Red Sanders the top slngle-Wing coach in the country, Tatum said the Terps still had lot OF work to do on defense. When Maryland met single wing Tennessee in the Sugar Bowl after the 1852 season, the coaching problem was different. That was the day of two-platoon football. and only the defensive team had to worry about the slngle-wing style. Now every player must be prepared. Bruins Powerful Again. In it’s 67-O rout of San Diego Navy, which proved nothing, and 32–⁠7 triumph over Kansas, the Bruins appeared to be as good or better than the team that won the Pacific Coast Confer ence title last year, then lost a close battle to Michigan. State in the Rose Bowl game. In fact. Sanders has said this team could be better than last years, but would have to be in view of expected improvement by other Pacific Coast Confer ence teams. The loss of Paul Cameron, the ALL American tail back, and Bill Sits, wingback now with the Detroit Lions, is not being felt as much as had been expected. UCLA was able to use it’s third stringers in the last quarter of the Kansas game and one of them. Don Shinnick, 220pound fullback. was good enough to run 73 yards for the final touchdown. NOTES-Tatum noted that Kentucky completed more passes against Mississippi, the South eastern Conference favorite, last Saturday than it cid against Maryland the previous week. It was close, 18 to Is. The Wild cats lost 900 to Maryland and 28–⁠9 to Ole Miss. Don King, who Clemson thinks is the best quarterback in the countrv, did not get into the Georgia game last Saturday, which Clemson lost, 14–⁠7. Maryland may have a sleeper on it’s schedule in Miami according to Morris McLemore. sports editor of the Miami Daily News, who was a visitor at College Park yesterday while en- route to the World Series. The Hurricanes will know more after playing Baylor this week. Miami is building toward its 1855 start of Georgia Tech and Notre Dame in two of its first three games. Kansas had first down On UCLA’s 4-yard line on Saturday and failed to score in four plays. which gives coy,,e ;rao nf the pr,riY1S, 6afaoSc

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

UCLA 74% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

UCLA leads 5–⁠2 in seven meetings, counting the five since this game.

Recent meetings
2001UCLA 41, Kansas 17
1995Kansas 51, UCLA 30Aloha Bowl
1978Kansas 28, UCLA 24
1977UCLA 17, Kansas 7
1956UCLA 13, Kansas 0
1954UCLA 32, Kansas 7

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