1969 UCLA Bruins football team

1969 UCLA Bruins football
Conference	Pacific-8
Ranking
Coaches	No. 10
AP	No. 13
1969 record	8–1–1 (5–1–1 Pac-8)
Head coach	Tommy Prothro
Home stadium	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

1969 Pacific-8 football standings
	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
#3 USC $	6	–	0	–	0	10	–	0	–	1
#13 UCLA	5	–	1	–	1	8	–	1	–	1
#19 Stanford	5	–	1	–	1	7	–	2	–	1
Oregon State	4	–	3	–	0	6	–	4	–	0
Oregon	2	–	3	–	0	5	–	5	–	1
California	2	–	4	–	0	5	–	5	–	0
Washington	1	–	6	–	0	1	–	9	–	0
Washington State	0	–	7	–	0	1	–	9	–	0

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

The 1969 UCLA Bruins football team represented the University of California, Los Angeles during the 1969 college football season.

Regular season

This was the year Prothro had geared his recruiting efforts towards as he believed this was his best team and was capable of contending for the national championship. The Bruins, quarterbacked by a sensational Jr. College transfer Dennis Dummit discovered by Prothro, were undefeated until they faced #10 Stanford in Palo Alto. Once again, Prothro was let down by now senior kicker Zenon Andrusyshyn as he missed a short field goal late in the game with the score tied 20–20. Suddenly, two long Jim Plunkett passes had Stanford in field goal range in the final seconds, but UCLA blocked Steve Horowitz's attempt to preserve the tie.

Once again, the UCLA-USC game would decide the Pac-8 title and the 1970 Rose Bowl berth. UCLA was ranked 6th with a 5–0–1 record in conference and 8–0–1 overall USC was #5 and was 6–0 in conference and 8–0–1 overall (tied Notre Dame in South Bend, 14–14); UCLA and USC were both unbeaten coming into their rivalry game for the first time since 1952. UCLA scored midway through the fourth quarter to take a 12–7 lead (knowing he need a win and not a tie to advance to the Rose Bowl, Prothro had the Bruins go for two after each touchdown and each attempt failed). USC then drove to the winning touchdown with 1:38 to play to win 14–12. The Trojans were aided by two controversial calls; the first was a dubious pass interference call on UCLA's Danny Graham on a 4th-and-10 incompletion. Secondly, on the winning touchdown pass reception, USC receiver Sam Dickerson appeared to be either out of bounds, out of the back of the end zone, or both. This loss supposedly was harder for Prothro to take than the 1967 loss and the freak officiating calls resembled the debacle at Tennessee in 1965.

Players and coaches

Offense

83 Gwen Cooper LE
79 Gordon Bosserman LT
68 Ron Tretter LG
50 Dave Dalby C
67 Dennis Alumbaugh RG
70 Lee McElroy RT
87 Mike Garratt RE
19 Dennis Dummit QB
43 Greg Jones LH
46 George Farmer RH
Mickey Cureon FB

Defense

93 Bob Geddes LE
60 Bruce Jorgensen LT
74 Floyd Reese RT
89 Wesley Grant RE
55 Don Widmer LLB
44 K. Monty Harrison MLB
57 Mike Ballou MLB
92 Jim Ford RLB
28 Doug Huff LC
20 Danny Graham RC
23 Ron Carver LS
27 Dennis Spurling RS

Coaches

Tommy Prothro (Head)
Earnel Durden
Larry Weaver
Tony Kopay
John Jardine
Jerry Long
Lew Stueck
Norman Dow
Jim Camp
Bobb McKittrick

Schedule

Date	Opponent^#	Rank^#	Site	Result
September 13	Oregon State	No. 17	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA	W 37–0
September 20	Pittsburgh*	No. 17	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA	W 42–8
September 27	at Wisconsin*	No. 14	Camp Randall Stadium • Madison, WI	W 34–23
October 4	at Northwestern*	No. 11	Dyche Stadium • Evanston, IL	W 36–0
October 11	at Washington State	No. 11	Joe Albi Stadium • Spokane, WA	W 46–14
October 18	California	No. 8	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA	W 32–0
October 25	at No. 19 Stanford	No. 6	Stanford Stadium • Stanford, CA	T 20–20
November 1	Washington	No. 9	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA	W 57–14
November 15	at Oregon	No. 7	Autzen Stadium • Eugene, OR	W 13–10
November 22	at No. 5 USC	No. 6	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA (Victory Bell)	L 14–12
*Non-conference game. Homecoming. ^#Rankings from AP Poll.

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Game notes

USC

	1	2	3	4	Total
UCLA	6	0	0	6	12
• USC	0	7	0	7	14

Date: November 22
Location: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, CA
Game attendance: 90,814

Scoring summary

1		UCLA	Farmer 41-yard pass from Jones (pass failed)	UCLA 6-0

2		USC	Davis 13-yard run (Ayala kick)	USC 7-6

4	3:07	UCLA	Cooper 7-yard pass from Dummit (pass failed)	UCLA 12-7

4	1:32	USC	Dickerson 32-yard pass from Jones (Ayala kick)	USC 14-12

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References

↑ College Football @ Sports-Reference.com
↑ "Trojans Topple UCLA". The Palm Beach Post. November 23, 1969.

UCLA Bruins football

Venues	Moore Field (1919–1927) Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (1928–1981) Rose Bowl (1982–present)

Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games California USC (Victory Bell)

Culture & lore	Joe Bruin "Sons of Westwood" "Mighty Bruins" Marching band 1967 "Game of the Century"

People	Head coaches NFL draftees Statistical leaders

Seasons	1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

National championship seasons in bold

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