1951 UCLA Bruins football team

1951 UCLA Bruins football
Conference	Pacific Coast Conference
Ranking
Coaches	No. 17
AP	No. 17
Record	5–3–1 (4–1–1 PCC)
Head coach	Henry Russell Sanders
Offensive scheme	Single wing
Home stadium	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

1951 Pacific Coast Conference football standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 7 Stanford $	6	–	1	–	0			9	–	2	–	0
No. 17 UCLA	4	–	1	–	1			5	–	3	–	1
No. 12 California	5	–	2	–	0			8	–	2	–	0
USC	4	–	2	–	0			7	–	3	–	0
No. 18 Washington State	4	–	3	–	0			7	–	3	–	0
Oregon State	3	–	5	–	0			4	–	6	–	0
Washington	1	–	5	–	1			3	–	6	–	1
Oregon	1	–	6	–	0			2	–	8	–	0
Idaho	0	–	3	–	0			2	–	7	–	0
$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

The 1951 UCLA Bruins football team represented the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) during the 1951 college football season.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance
September 21	No. 6 Texas A&M*		Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA	L 14–21	58,566
September 29	at No. 10 Illinois*		Memorial Stadium Champaign, IL	L 13–27	53,265
October 6	Santa Clara*		Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA	W 44–17	18,640
October 13	at No. 19 Stanford		Stanford Stadium Stanford, CA	L 7–21	36,000
October 20	Oregon		Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA	W 41–0	14,495
November 3	No. 9 California		Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA (rivalry)	W 21–7	56,418
November 10	at Oregon State		Multnomah Stadium Portland, OR	W 7–0	26,598
November 17	Washington	No. 18	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA	T 20–20	31,597
November 24	at No. 11 USC		Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA (Victory Bell)	W 21–7	71,738
*Non-conference game Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

Game summaries

USC

	1	2	3	4	Total
UCLA	7	0	7	7	21
USC	0	0	0	7	7

For the first time, the Bruins defeated the Trojans two years in a row. UCLA won the 1950 game 39–0. Scoring for the Bruins were Don Stalwick, Ike Jones, and Donn Moomaw. Jim Sears scored late in the fourth quarter for Southern Cal.