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1952 Idaho

4–⁠4–⁠1 (1–⁠3 Pacific Coast Conference), coached by Raymond Curfman.

Schedule and results

Idaho in 1952, game by game: lost at Washington 14–39; tied at Utah 21–21; lost vs. Oregon 14–20; won at Utah State 6–3; won vs. North Dakota State 54–9; lost at Santa Clara 7–9; lost at Washington State 6–36; won vs. Montana 27–0; won at Oregon State 27–6+45−30Lost 14–39 at Washington-25WashingtonTied 21–21 at Utah0UtahLost 14–20 vs. Oregon-6OregonWon 6–3 at Utah State+3Utah StateWon 54–9 vs. North Dakota State+45North Dakota St…Lost 7–9 at Santa Clara-2Santa ClaraLost 6–36 at Washington State-30Washington StateWon 27–0 vs. Montana+27MontanaWon 27–6 at Oregon State+21Oregon State
Each game’s margin, wins above the line and losses below.
DateOpponentResultElo
Sep 20atWashingtonL 14–⁠3931%
Sep 27atUtahT 21–⁠2133%
Oct 4vsOregonL 14–⁠2065%
Oct 11atUtah StateW 6–⁠342%
Oct 18vsNorth Dakota StateW 54–⁠986%
Oct 24atSanta ClaraL 7–⁠938%
Nov 1atWashington StateL 6–⁠3629%
Nov 8vsMontanaW 27–⁠062%
Nov 15atOregon StateW 27–⁠639%

Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.

How it ended: Beat Oregon State 27–⁠6; unranked in the final AP poll; 8th in the Pacific Coast Conference.

In program history: The 24th-best season in program history by end-of-season Elo (of 110 on file).

Photographs from 1952

  • Football awards
    Football awardsPhoto: University of Idaho, Public Domain Mark 1.0, via Digital Public Library of America

Photographs from libraries and archives found through the Digital Public Library of America, each under the rights statement its holder gives (no copyright in the United States, public domain or Creative Commons) and credited to it. Captions as each collection catalogues them.

Record
4–⁠4–⁠1
Conference
1–⁠3 8th in Pacific Coast Conference
AP final
Unranked
Points
176–⁠143
Coach
Raymond Curfman
Elo
1434 +20 this season
SP+ rating
—
SRS
−6.9 No. 79 of 113 major-college teams
Recruiting class
—
Offense
Split-T

All-Pacific Coast

1 second team

Second team

  • Bob HolderOGUP-2

From Wikipedia’s 1952 all-conference team article, with the selectors that named each player (AP-1: the Associated Press’s first team).

1952 Pacific Coast Conference standings

TeamConf.OverallAP final
USC6–⁠010–⁠15
UCLA5–⁠18–⁠16
Washington6–⁠27–⁠3
California3–⁠37–⁠3
Washington State3–⁠44–⁠6
Stanford2–⁠55–⁠5
Oregon2–⁠52–⁠7–⁠1
Idaho1–⁠34–⁠4–⁠1
Oregon State1–⁠62–⁠7

Ordered by conference winning percentage, then conference wins. Division splits and tiebreakers aren’t applied.