1957 Wyoming Cowboys football team

The 1957 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming in the Skyline Conference during the 1957 NCAA University Division football season. In their first season under head coach Bob Devaney, the Cowboys compiled a 4–3–3 record (3–2–2 against Skyline opponents), finished fourth in the Skyline Conference, and outscored all opponents by a total of 139 to 135.[1][2]

1957 Wyoming Cowboys football
ConferenceSkyline Conference
1957 record4–3–3 (3–2–2 Skyline)
Head coachBob Devaney (1st season)
Home stadiumWar Memorial Stadium
1957 Skyline Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Utah $ 5 1 0  6 4 0
BYU 5 1 1  5 3 2
Denver 5 2 0  6 4 0
Wyoming 3 2 2  4 3 3
New Mexico 2 4 0  4 6 0
Colorado State 2 5 0  3 7 0
Montana 2 5 0  2 7 0
Utah State 1 5 1  2 7 1
  • $ Conference champion

The 1957 season was Bob Devaney's first as a head coach. He was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 21Kansas State*
  • War Memorial Stadium
  • Laramie, WY
W 12–7
September 28vs. MontanaBillings, MTW 20–0
October 5Utah State
  • War Memorial Stadium
  • Laramie, WY
T 19–19
October 12Colorado State
  • War Memorial Stadium
  • Laramie, WY (rivalry)
W 27–13
October 19BYU
  • War Memorial Stadium
  • Laramie, WY
T 0–09,018[3]
October 26at UtahL 15–23
November 2Air Force*
  • War Memorial Stadium
  • Laramie, WY
T 7–7
November 9at Oklahoma State*
  • Lewis Field
  • Stillwater, OK
L 6–39
November 16at New Mexico
W 20–13
November 28at DenverL 13–14
  • *Non-conference game
gollark: Those are purely hypothetical.
gollark: Well, yes, I suppose we do use advanced ideatic/memetic devices to sift hëavserveric discussion and emotion from the noösphere and expand heavserver.
gollark: "Rate at which they create heavserver"/"How often someone declares that they hate 'heavserver' and always avoid it"
gollark: > 'Heavserver' is just 'people being upset', when someone says they're always surrounded by heavserver and they just ignore it, it starts to make sense that their strategy might be backfiring.I feel like this is somewhat inaccurate.
gollark: Wait, user was on heavserver?

References

  1. "1957 Wyoming Cowboys Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved October 13, 2018.
  2. "2018 Wyoming Football Media Guide" (PDF). University of Wyoming. 2018. p. 212.
  3. "BYU Holds Pokes to 0-0 Tie". Casper Tribune-Herald & Star. October 20, 1957. p. 9 via Newspapers.com.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.