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American college football season
The 1959 Kansas State Wildcats football team represented Kansas State University in the 1959 NCAA University Division 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.[1] The finished seventh in the Big Seven.
Schedule
Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance |
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September 19 | Wichita* | | L 0–19 | |
September 26 | at South Dakota State* | | W 28–12 | |
October 3 | at Oklahoma State* | - Memorial Stadium
- Manhattan, Kansas
| L 21–28 | 8,500 |
October 10 | Colorado | - Memorial Stadium
- Manhattan, KS
| L 17–20 | 10,000 |
October 17 | at Kansas | | L 14–33 | 27,000 |
October 24 | at Iowa State | | L 0–26 | 13,899 |
October 31 | at Iowa* | | L 0–53 | 45,000 |
November 7 | No. 18 Oklahoma | - Memorial Stadium
- Manhattan, KS
| L 0–36 | 11,204 |
November 14 | at Missouri | | L 0–26 | |
November 21 | Nebraska | - Memorial Stadium
- Manhattan, KS (rivalry)
| W 29–14 | 8,318 |
- *Non-conference game
- Rankings from Coaches' Poll released prior to the game
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