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1959 Kansas State Wildcats football team

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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
Kansas State 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. The finished seventh in the Big Seven.

Schedule

9/19/1959Wichita*

L 0-19   9/26/1959at South Dakota State*

W 28-12  10/3/1959at Oklahoma State

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Manhattan, KS

L 21-288,500 10/10/1959Colorado

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Manhattan, KS

L 17-2010,000 10/16/1959at Kansas

L 14-3327,000 10/24/1959at Iowa State

L 0-2613,899 10/31/1959at Iowa*

L 0-5345,000 11/7/1959No. 18 Oklahoma

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Manhattan, KS

L 0-3611,204 11/14/1959at Missouri

L 0-26  11/21/1959Nebraska

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Manhattan, KS

W 29-148,318

Template:CFB Schedule End

References