Air Force at UCLA

Friday, September 20, 1957

UCLA beat Air Force 47–⁠0. It was their first meeting; after it, UCLA led the series 1–⁠0.

AwayAir Force3–⁠6–⁠1 in 1957
0
HomeUCLA8–⁠2 in 1957
47

FinalHigh 79°F, low 57°FAttendance 33,293

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., September 25, 1957, page 1

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    DENVER, Sept. rs (R.-Entry Of the Air Force Academy into big-time football may be delayed at least a year. Col. George Simler. the academy’s athletic director. said today. Col. Simler said he would deeide after watching the Falcons in their games against Occidental and Detroit whether 1858 contests tentatively scheduled with Tulane, Stanford and Iowa should be Cancelled. 1T has nothing to do with our 47–⁠0 loss to UCLA last Fri day.” Col. Simler said. I’VE just don’t want to run before we can walk” He said two football lessons were learned in the UCLA game last week-that a school needs the material to begin with and equal opportunity to prepare for its season. I’VE only had eight days of single practice sessions with our complete squad in preparing for the UCLA game” the athletic director said. I’m the future we may have to arrange for twice-a-day workouts like the big boys.

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 95% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

UCLA leads 6–⁠4–⁠1 in 11 meetings, counting the 10 since this game.

Recent meetings
1976UCLA 40, Air Force 7
1975UCLA 20, Air Force 20
1966UCLA 38, Air Force 13
1965UCLA 10, Air Force 0
1964Air Force 24, UCLA 15
1963Air Force 48, UCLA 21

Around this game

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