1959 Kansas State Wildcats football team

1959 Kansas State Wildcats football
ConferenceBig Seven Conference
Record2–8 (1–5 Big 7)
Head coach
Home stadiumMemorial Stadium
1959 Big Seven Conference football standings
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 15 Oklahoma $ 5 – 1 – 0 7 – 3 – 0
No. 18 Missouri 4 – 2 – 0 6 – 5 – 0
Colorado 3 – 3 – 0 5 – 5 – 0
Iowa State 3 – 3 – 0 7 – 3 – 0
Kansas 3 – 3 – 0 5 – 5 – 0
Nebraska 2 – 4 – 0 4 – 6 – 0
1 – 5 – 0 2 – 8 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1959 Kansas State Wildcats football team represented Kansas State University in the 1959 college football season. The team's head football coach was Bus Mertes, in his last year at K-State. The Wildcats played their home games in Memorial Stadium. 1959 saw the Wildcats finish with a record of 2–8, and a 1–5 record in Big Seven Conference play. The Wildcats scored only 58 points while giving up 232.[1] The finished seventh in the Big Seven.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 19Wichita*
L 0–1912,500
September 26at South Dakota State*
W 28–124,500[2]
October 3at Oklahoma State*
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Manhattan, KS
L 21–288,500
October 10Colorado
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Manhattan, KS (rivalry)
L 17–2010,000
October 17at Kansas
L 14–3327,000
October 24at Iowa State
L 0–2613,899
October 31at Iowa*
L 0–5345,000[3]
November 7Oklahoma
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Manhattan, KS
L 0–3611,204
November 14at Missouri
L 0–2615,000
November 21Nebraska
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Manhattan, KS (rivalry)
W 29–148,318
  • *Non-conference game
  • Homecoming

References

  1. ^ "1959 Kansas State Wildcats Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 7, 2019.
  2. ^ "Brief Summary Of Cumulative Football Statistics". National Collegiate Athletic Association. Retrieved December 24, 2022.
  3. ^ Brad Wilson (November 1, 1959). "Hawks Toy With K-State, 53-0: Race Away to 45-0 Lead at Halftime and Use 49 Players --- They Pile Up 615 Yards to Wildcats' 81". The Des Moines Tribune. pp. 1, 9 (sports) – via Newspapers.com.
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