1958 Buffalo Bulls football team

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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. Buffalo would not be invited to or be bowl-eligible for another 50 years.

Schedule

September 27at Harvard

• Harvard Stadium
• Boston, MA

W 6–3   October 4at CortlandCortland, NYW 7–6   October 11at Western ReserveCleveland, OHW 19–6   October 18Baldwin–WallaceBuffalo, NYL 0–26   October 25ColumbiaBuffalo, NYW 34–14   November 1TempleBuffalo, NYW 54–6   November 8at Wayne State (MI)Detroit, MIW 44–14   November 15at Lehigh

• Taylor Stadium
• Bethlehem, PA

W 34–26   November 22BucknellBuffalo, NYW 38–0