1974 UCLA Bruins football team

1974 UCLA Bruins football
Conference	Pacific-8
Record	6–3–2 (4–2–1 Pac-8)
Head coach	Dick Vermeil (1st season)
Home stadium	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

1974 Pacific-8 Conference football standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 2 USC $	6	–	0	–	1			10	–	1	–	1
Stanford	5	–	1	–	1			5	–	4	–	2
California	4	–	2	–	1			7	–	3	–	1
UCLA	4	–	2	–	1			6	–	3	–	2
Washington	3	–	4	–	0			5	–	6	–	0
Oregon State	3	–	4	–	0			3	–	8	–	0
Washington State	1	–	6	–	0			2	–	9	–	0
Oregon	0	–	7	–	0			2	–	9	–	0
$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

The 1974 UCLA Bruins football team represented the University of California, Los Angeles during the 1974 NCAA Division I football season. Dick Vermeil became the head coach.

Schedule

September 7at No. 16 Tennessee*No. 12

• Neyland Stadium
• Knoxville, TN

ABCT 17–17 57,560 September 21at Iowa*No. 12

• Kinnick Stadium
• Iowa City, IA

L 10–21 47,500 September 28Michigan State*

• Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
• Los Angeles, CA

W 56–14 44,555 October 5at Utah*

• Rice Stadium
• Salt Lake City, UT

W 27–14 25,682 October 12Stanford

• Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
• Los Angeles, CA

T 13–13 46,292 October 19Washington State

• Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
• Los Angeles, CA

W 17–13 27,745 October 26at No. 20 California

• California Memorial Stadium
• Berkeley, CA (Rivalry)

W 28–3 48,777 November 2at WashingtonNo. 8

• Husky Stadium
• Seattle, WA

L 9–31 52,000 November 9Oregon

• Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
• Los Angeles, CA

W 21–0 32,839 November 16at Oregon State

• Parker Stadium
• Corvallis, OR

L 33–14 21,118 November 23No. 8 USC

• Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
• Los Angeles, CA (Battle for the Victory Bell)

ABCL 9–34 82,625

Roster

1974 UCLA Bruins football team roster
Players			Coaches
Offense Pos. # Name Class WR 89 Norm Andersen Jr RB 30 Eddie Ayers Jr TE 81 Gene Bleymaier Jr RB 24 Russel Charles Sr OT 64 Gene Clark Sr G 51 Randy Cross Jr QB 19 Jeff Dankworth So WR 8 Wally Henry So G 65 Myke Horton Sr C 61 Art Kuehn Sr OT 73 Phil McKinnely Jr WR 3 Steve Monohan Sr QB 15 John Sciarra Jr	Defense Pos. # Name Class DT 76 Cliff Frazier Jr LB 8 Jack Jorgensen CB 21 Phil Kimble Sr DT 77 Rick Kukulica Sr LB 93 Fulton Kuykendall Sr DT 53 Mike Martinez Jr CB 28 John Nanoski Sr S 23 Kent Pearce Sr LB 1 Herschel Ramsey Sr LB 59 Gene Settles Sr DT 67 Pat Sweetland Sr S 25 Greg Williams Sr	Special teams Pos. # Name Class	Head coach Dick Vermeil Coordinators/assistant coaches Jim Criner Terry Donahue Rod Dowhower Jerry Long Billie Matthews Jim Mor Carl Peterson Lynn Stiles Dick Tomey Legend (C) Team captain (S) Suspended (I) Ineligible Injured Redshirt

Honors

• All conference first team: Norm Anderson (SE), Gene Clark (OT), Fulton Kuykendall (LB)