1958 Buffalo Bulls football team

1958 Buffalo Bulls football
Conference Independent
1958 record 8–1
Head coach Dick Offenhamer

The 1958 Buffalo Bulls football team represented the University at Buffalo in the 1958 NCAA College Division football season. The Bulls offense scored 236 points while the defense allowed 101 points. The team won the Lambert Cup, emblematic of supremacy in Eastern U.S. small-college football. The Bulls were invited to play in the 1958 Tangerine Bowl against Florida State. The team voted to turn down the bowl invitation after learning that they would be allowed to participate only if the team's two black players, back-up defensive end Mike Wilson and starting halfback Willie Evans, did not play in the game. The 1958 Bulls team was profiled on ESPN's Outside the Lines in 2008.[1] Buffalo would not be invited to or be bowl-eligible for another 50 years.

Schedule

Date Time Opponent Site Result Attendance
September 27 at Harvard Harvard StadiumBoston, MA W 6–3    
October 4 at Cortland Cortland, NY W 7–6    
October 11 at Western Reserve Cleveland, OH W 19–6    
October 18 Baldwin–Wallacedagger Buffalo, NY L 0–26    
October 25 Columbia Buffalo, NY W 34–14    
November 1 Temple Buffalo, NY W 54–6    
November 8 at Wayne State (MI) Detroit, MI W 44–14    
November 15 at Lehigh Taylor StadiumBethlehem, PA W 34–26    
November 22 Bucknell Buffalo, NY W 38–0    

References

  1. Eric Neel, "All or Nothing", ESPN.com, retrieved November 20, 2008.
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