1950 Stanford Indians football team
{{short description|American college football season}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox college sports team season
| year = 1950
| team = Stanford Indians
| sport = football
| image =
| image_size =
| conference = Pacific Coast Conference
| short_conf = PCC
| record = 5–3–2
| conf_record = 2–2–2
| head_coach = Marchmont Schwartz
| hc_year = 6th
| captain =
| stadium = Stanford Stadium
}}
{{1950 Pacific Coast Conference football standings}}
The 1950 Stanford Indians football team represented Stanford University in the 1950 college football season. Stanford was led by sixth-year head coach Marchmont Schwartz. The team were members of the Pacific Coast Conference and played their home games at Stanford Stadium in Stanford, California.
Coming off the successful 1949 season in which a talented group of sophomores, led by quarterback Gary Kerkorian and end Bill McColl, had the Indians a game away from the Rose Bowl, Stanford was expected to have an excellent season and was ranked seventh in the first-ever preseason AP poll.{{cite web
|url=http://www.collegepollarchive.com/football/ap/seasons.cfm?appollid=120
|title=1950 Preseason AP Football Poll
|publisher=CollegePollArchive.com
|access-date=September 9, 2011}}{{cite book
|last=Migdol
|first=Gary
|title=Stanford: Home of Champions
|pages=112–114
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HUaungEACAAJ&pg=PA112
|publisher=Sports Publishing LLC
|date=1997
|location=Champaign, Illinois
|isbn=1-57167-116-1}} But after starting 4–0, the team would only win one more game and tie twice, the second tie coming in the Big Game, in which the team rallied to tie undefeated and Rose Bowl-bound rival California.{{cite web
|url = http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/pac10/stanford/yearly_results.php?year=1950
|title = Stanford Game-by-Game Results; 1950–1954
|publisher = College Football Data Warehouse
|access-date = September 9, 2011
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111019074717/http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/pac10/stanford/yearly_results.php?year=1950
|archive-date = 2011-10-19
|url-status = dead
}} Coach Schwartz resigned following the season.{{cite news
|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mLsyAAAAIBAJ&pg=1453,5037624
|title=Schwartz out at Stanford
|newspaper=Miami News
|date=December 30, 1950
|access-date=September 9, 2011
}}
Schedule
{{CFB schedule
| rankyear = 1950
| poll = AP
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = September 23
| w/l = w
| nonconf = y
| rank = 7
| opponent = San Jose State
| site_stadium = Stanford Stadium
| site_cityst = Stanford, CA
| gamename = rivalry
| score = 33–16
| attend = 20,000
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = September 30
| w/l = w
| nonconf = y
| rank = 7
| opponent = San Francisco
| site_stadium = Stanford Stadium
| site_cityst = Stanford, CA
| score = 55–7
| attend = 35,000
| source = {{cite news|title=Stanford Steamrollers USF, 55-7! Thumping by Indians Worst in Don History; Cards Shut Gates of Mercy; 35,000 See Matson Completely Bottled Up|newspaper=The San Francisco Examiner|author=Bob Brachman|date=October 1, 1950|pages=22, 26|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100013035/stanford-steamrollers-usf-55-7/|via=Newspapers.com}}
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 7
| w/l = w
| away = y
| rank = 8
| opponent = Oregon State
| site_stadium = Multnomah Stadium
| site_cityst = Portland, OR
| score = 21–7
| attend = 16,000
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 14
| w/l = w
| nonconf = y
| rank = 6
| opponent = Santa Clara
| site_stadium = Stanford Stadium
| site_cityst = Stanford, CA
| score = 23–13
| attend = 29,000
| source = {{cite news|title=Stanford Pushes Over Broncos, 23-13: Cards Forced to Go All Out for Victory|newspaper=The San Francisco Examiner|author=Harry M. Hayward|date=October 15, 1950|pages=24, 28|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99909228/stanford-pushes-over-broncos-23-13/|via=Newspapers.com}}
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 21
| w/l = l
| away = y
| rank = 6
| opponent = UCLA
| site_stadium = Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
| site_cityst = Los Angeles, CA
| score = 7–21
| attend = 58,143
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 28
| w/l = l
| opponent = Washington
| site_stadium = Stanford Stadium
| site_cityst = Stanford, CA
| score = 7–21
| attend = 32,474
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = November 4
| w/l = t
| opponent = USC
| site_stadium = Stanford Stadium
| site_cityst = Stanford, CA
| gamename = reivalry
| score = 7–7
| attend = 40,000
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = November 11
| w/l = w
| opponent = Washington State
| site_stadium = Stanford Stadium
| site_cityst = Stanford, CA
| score = 28–18
| attend = 15,000
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = November 18
| w/l = l
| nonconf = y
| opponent = Army
| opprank = 3
| site_stadium = Stanford Stadium
| site_cityst = Stanford, CA
| score = 0–7
| attend = 40,000 While 55,000 tickets sold, about 40,000 attended in the rain. (See: SF Examiner)
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = November 25
| w/l = t
| away = y
| opponent = California
| opprank = 4
| site_stadium = California Memorial Stadium
| site_cityst = Berkeley, CA
| gamename = Big Game
| score = 7–7
| attend = 81,000
}}
}}
Players drafted by the NFL
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| Player | Position | Round | Pick | NFL club |
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| Bruce Van Alstyne | End | 9 | 100 | San Francisco 49ers |
| align="center" bgcolor="" | Halfback | 16 | 184 | San Francisco 49ers |
| align="center" bgcolor="" | Tackle | 18 | 211 | Chicago Cardinals |