en 1958 Colorado Buffaloes football team

1958 Colorado Buffaloes football
1958 Colorado Buffaloes football
Conference	Big Seven Conference
Record	6–4 (4–2 Big 7)
Head coach	Dallas Ward (11th season);
Captain	Game captains
Home stadium	Folsom Field
	Seasons ← 1957 1959 →

1958 Big Seven Conference football standings
v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 5 Oklahoma $	6	–	0	–	0	10	–	1	–	0
Missouri	4	–	1	–	1	5	–	4	–	1
Colorado	4	–	2	–	0	6	–	4	–	0
Kansas	3	–	2	–	1	4	–	5	–	1
Kansas State	2	–	4	–	0	3	–	7	–	0
Nebraska	1	–	5	–	0	3	–	7	–	0
Iowa State	0	–	6	–	0	4	–	6	–	0

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

The 1958 Colorado Buffaloes football team was an American football team that represented the University of Colorado in the Big Seven Conference during the 1958 college football season. Led by 11th-year head coach Dallas Ward, the Buffaloes compiled an overall record of 6–4 with a mark of 4–2 in conference play, placing third in the Big 7. The team played its home games on campus at Folsom Field in Boulder, Colorado.

Colorado opened with five wins, but then dropped four of five, including intrastate losses at home to Colorado State and Air Force to conclude the season.^[1] Ward was fired by the university regents in January, and stayed at CU as a professor of physical education. He was succeeded in February by Sonny Grandelius, an assistant at Michigan State under Duffy Daugherty.^[2]^[3]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 27		Kansas State		Folsom Field Boulder, CO (rivalry)	W 13–3	37,500
October 4		at Kansas		Memorial Stadium Lawrence, KS	W 31–0	22,000
October 11		at Arizona*	No. 19	Arizona Stadium Tucson, AZ	W 65–12	18,000
October 18		at Iowa State		Clyde Williams Field Ames, IA	W 20–0	10,000
October 25		Nebraska	No. 12	Folsom Field Boulder, CO (rivalry)	W 27–16	40,000
November 1		No. 7 Oklahoma	No. 9	Folsom Field Boulder, CO	L 7–23	47,000
November 8		at Missouri		Memorial Stadium Columbia, MO	L 9–33	31,500
November 15	2:00 p.m.	at Utah*		Ute Stadium Salt Lake City, UT (rivalry)	W 7–0	4,300	^[4]
November 22		Colorado State*		Folsom Field Boulder, CO (rivalry)	L 14–15	23,000
November 29		No. 8 Air Force*		Folsom Field Boulder, CO	L 14–20	40,000	^[5]
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Mountain time

Assistant coaches: Marshall Wells, Frank Prentup, Jack Nelson, Will Walls^[9]

^ "Air Force tips Buffs by 20-14". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. November 30, 1958. p. 1B.
^ "Buff policy stays same; coach goes". Lawrence Daily Journal-World. (Kansas). Associated Press. January 24, 1959. p. 8.
^ "Buffs hire Grandelius". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. February 10, 1959. p. 2B.
^ "Redskins vs. Buffaloes: probable starters". Deseret News. (Salt Lake City, Utah). November 14, 1958. p. B7.
^ "Falcons beat Buffs, accept Cotton spot". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. November 30, 1958. p. 3, sports.
^ "1958 Colorado Buffaloes Schedule and Results". College Football @ Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference. Retrieved October 23, 2023.
^ "1958 Football Schedule". University of Colorado Boulder. Retrieved October 23, 2023.
^ "Colorado Football 2023 Record Book" (PDF). University of Colorado Boulder. p. 27. Retrieved October 23, 2023.
^ "Buff youth movement really in evidence as Grandelius gets busy". Lawrence Daily Journal-World. (Kansas). Associated Press. February 20, 1959. p. 12.

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