1936 BYU Cougars football team

{{short description|American college football season}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}

{{Infobox college sports team season

| year = 1936

| team = BYU Cougars

| sport = football

| image =

| image_size =

| conference = Rocky Mountain Conference

| short_conf = RMC

| record = 4–5

| conf_record = 4–4

| head_coach = G. Ott Romney

| hc_year = 9th

| captain =

| stadium =

}}

{{1936 Rocky Mountain Conference football standings}}

The 1936 BYU Cougars football team was an American football team that represented Brigham Young University (BYU) as a member of the Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) during the 1936 college football season. In their ninth and final season under head coach G. Ott Romney, the Cougars compiled an overall record of 4–5 with a mark of 4–4 against conference opponents, finished sixth in the RMC, scored 123 points, and allowed opponents to score 123 points.{{cite web|title=1936 BYU Cougars Schedule and Results|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|work=SR/College Football|accessdate=December 31, 2018|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/brigham-young/1936-schedule.html}}{{cite web|title=BYU Football 2015 Almanac|publisher=Brigham Young University|year=2015|page=167|accessdate=December 31, 2018|url=https://byucougars.com/dl/sites/default/files/files/webalmanac.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190903141005/https://byucougars.com/dl/sites/default/files/files/webalmanac.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 3, 2019}}

Schedule

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|September 25|at|Arizona|Arizona Stadium|Tucson, AZ|L 6-32|8,000|{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ogden-standard-examiner-arizona-hand/169379461/|work=The Ogden Standard-Examiner|title=Arizona hands Brigham Young severe lacing|date=September 26, 1936|accessdate=April 1, 2025|via=Newspapers.com}}

|October 3||Montana State||Provo, UT|W 19-0||

|October 9|at|{{cfb link|year=1936|team=Colorado State–Greeley Bears|title=Colorado State–Greeley}}||Greeley, CO|W 33-0||

|October 17||Utah State||Provo, UT (rivalry)|L 0-13|6,500|{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0vUvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dEgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6502%2C5478224 |work=Deseret News |location=(Salt Lake City, Utah)|last=Christensen |first=Verl |title=Provo in gala attire for Cougar-Aggie homecoming |date=October 16, 1936 |page=13}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1PUvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dEgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6614%2C5975841|work=Deseret News |location=(Salt Lake City, Utah)|last=Goates |first=Les |title=Cougars make plucky stand but fall before Farmer eleven |date=October 19, 1936 |page=11}}

|October 31|at|Utah|Ute Stadium|Salt Lake City, UT (rivalry)|L 0-18||

|November 7||{{cfb link|year=1936|team=Western State Mountaineers|title=Western State (CO)}}||Gunnison, CO|W 26-12||

|November 14|at|Denver|DU Stadium|Denver, CO|L 7-35|6,070|{{cite news|title=Denver Eleven Triumphs Over B.Y.U.|newspaper=The Salt Lake Tribune|pages=7B, 8B, 11B|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27445244/denver_eleven_triumphs_over_byu/|via=Newspapers.com}}

|November 21||Wyoming||Provo, UT|W 32-7||{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-salt-lake-tribune/103769248/|work=The Salt Lake Tribune|title=B.Y.U. submerges Wyoming by count of 32–7|date=November 22, 1936|accessdate=April 1, 2025|via=Newspapers.com}}

|November 28|at|{{cfb link|year=1936|team=Colorado College Tigers|title=Colorado College}}||Colorado Springs, CO|L 0-6||

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