UCLA Bruins football

The UCLA Bruins football program represents the University of California, Los Angeles in college football as members of the Pacific-12 Conference at the NCAA Division I FBS level. The Bruins have enjoyed several periods of success in their history, having been ranked in the top ten of the AP Poll at least once in every decade since the poll began in the 1930s. Their first major period of success came in the 1950s, under head coach Henry Russell Sanders. Sanders led the Bruins to the Coaches' Poll national championship in 1954, three conference championships, and an overall record of 66–19–1 in nine years. In the 1980s and 1990s, during the tenure of Terry Donahue, the Bruins compiled a 151–74–8 record, including 13 bowl games and an NCAA record eight straight bowl wins. The program has produced 28 first round picks in the NFL Draft, 30 consensus All-Americans, and multiple major award winners, including Heisman winner Gary Beban. The UCLA Bruins' main rivals are the USC Trojans. On December 10, 2011, UCLA announced that Jim L. Mora will be hired as the 17th head football coach.

Current staff
The following are coaches for the 2012 season, as of January 17, 2012:

Rose Bowl
The Rose Bowl is a National Historic Landmark located in Pasadena, California with an official capacity of 92,542. It has been the home football field for the UCLA Bruins since the 1982 season. The Bruins had played their home games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum after joining the Pacific Coast Conference in 1928. The Coliseum is also the home of the rival USC Trojans. As the Coliseum is located across the street from the USC campus, Bruin officials long sought to move out from under the Trojans' shadow. An on-campus facility was discussed, but UCLA's location is not conducive to adequate traffic flow, and the campus lacks room for sufficient parking. There was an attempt to build a 44,000 seat stadium on campus, at the site where Drake Stadium eventually was built. However, the proposal was blocked by influential area residents, as well as other politicians. In addition, the Coliseum already was constructed by and is a facility of the State of California. When the Oakland Raiders became the Los Angeles Raiders, in 1982, and after arduous negotiations with the city of Pasadena, UCLA decided to move out of the Coliseum, relocating its home games to the Rose Bowl Stadium. UCLA has participated in five Rose Bowl games since moving to the stadium, including the 1983 Rose Bowl at the end of the Bruins' first season there. From 1919 to 1927, the Bruins (then known as the Cubs) used Moore Field at the Vermont Ave. campus of the "Southern Branch of the University of California."

Acosta Athletic Complex
Training room, weight room, football facilities, and locker rooms are all located in the Acosta Athletic Complex, just west of Pauley Pavilion.

Spaulding Field
The on campus practice facility for the football team is Spaulding Field, which has two football fields, one grass and one artificial turf, or synthetic turf.

Uniforms
The UCLA athletic colors are "True Blue" and gold. The "True Blue" is a slightly darker shade than the previous powder blue worn by teams.

In the early days of the school, UCLA had the same colors as California: Yale Blue and California Gold.

When football coach Red Sanders came to UCLA for the 1949 season he redesigned the football uniforms. The Yale Blue was changed to a lighter shade of blue. Sanders figured that the baby blue would look better on the field and in film. He would dub the baby blue uniform "Powderkeg blue", powder blue with an explosive kick. For the 1954 season, Sanders added a the now familiar loop on the shoulders, the UCLA Stripe, to give an impression of motion. The away uniforms became white, with a navy blue and gold shoulder stripe and gold pants. The helmets became gold.

At times, beginning with the 1954 football season, the font for the numbers on the uniforms has been Clarendon typeface. Otherwise it has been block numerals. In the 1980s the uniform pants became yellow to look better in color publications, the jerseys a lighter blue, and the UCLA script was added to the helmets. In the 1990s, the uniform pants became gold again.

In 2003, the True Blue colors were adopted. The away uniforms got true blue shoulder stripes and numbers in 2006, but were replaced by navy blue again in 2010.

In 2009, the Bruins wore a 1967 throwback uniform against Washington and USC, though against USC the team's normal helmet was worn.

Yearly records
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Notes
 * (a) National Champion UCLA was ineligible for the Rose Bowl due to a "no-repeat" rule, w/ USC, a team UCLA had beaten 34–0, sent instead (and lost)
 * (b) 9–1, #5 ranked UCLA was voted out of the Rose Bowl by the AAWU conference in favor of 7–4 USC due to it having one more 'conference game win", 4–1 to UCLA's 3–1. UCLA beat USC earlier that year.
 * (c) UCLA finished the 1977 season 7–4 overall and 5–2 in conference, tied for 2nd in the conference. They later forfeited the 7 wins due to having an ineligible player.
 * (d) UCLA was ineligible for post season play after the 1980 season due to probation
 * (e) Coach Toledo was fired before the bowl game, so offensive line coach Ed Kezirian coached the 2002 Las Vegas Bowl.
 * (f) Coach Dorrell was fired before the bowl game, so defensive coordinator DeWayne Walker coached the 2007 Las Vegas Bowl.
 * (g) Coach Neuheisel was fired before the bowl game, so offensive coordinator Mike Johnson coached the 2011 Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl.

Bowl games
UCLA has played in 31 bowl games in its history, compiling a record of 15–16–1. From 1946 to 1974, no team could participate in the Rose Bowl two years in a row. This is why the 1954 team, which won the conference, did not participate in the 1955 Rose Bowl.

Individual award winners

 * Heisman Trophy
 * Gary Beban – 1967


 * Maxwell Award
 * Gary Beban – 1967


 * Davey O'Brien Award
 * Troy Aikman – 1988


 * John Mackey Award
 * Marcedes Lewis – 2005


 * Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award
 * Cade McNown – 1998


 * Outland Trophy
 * Jonathan Ogden – 1995
 * Kris Farris – 1998


 * Lou Groza Award
 * Kai Forbath – 2009

UCLA became the first school to have a top winner in both basketball and football in the same year with Gary Beban winning the Heisman Trophy and Lew Alcindor (now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) winning the U.S. Basketball Writers Association player of the year award in 1968.

College Football Hall of Famers

 * Troy Aikman (2008)
 * Gary Beban (1988)
 * Randy Cross (2010)
 * Terry Donahue (2000)
 * Kenny Easley (1991)
 * Tom Fears (1976)
 * Billy Kilmer (1999)


 * Donn Moomaw (1973)
 * Tommy Prothro (1991)
 * Jerry Robinson (1996)
 * Red Sanders (1996)
 * Al Sparlis (1983)
 * Kenny Washington (1956)

Pro Football Hall of Famers

 * Troy Aikman (2006)
 * Tom Fears


 * Jimmy Johnson (1994)
 * Bob Waterfield



Rose Bowl MVPs

 * Bob Stiles, 1966, DB
 * John Sciarra, 1976, QB
 * Don Rogers, 1983, FS
 * Tom Ramsey, 1983, QB
 * Rick Neuheisel, 1984, QB
 * Eric Ball, 1986, TB

Rose Bowl Hall of Fame

 * John Sciarra, 1991
 * Bob Stiles, 1993
 * Gary Beban, 1995
 * Eric Ball, 1996


 * Terry Donahue, 1997
 * Rick Neuheisel, 1998
 * Al Hoisch, 1999
 * Tom Ramsey, 2007

Current (and former) NFL players

 * Terrance Austin
 * Brendon Ayanbadejo
 * Akeem Ayers
 * Dave Ball
 * Kahlil Bell
 * Drew Bennett
 * Ed Blanton
 * Ryan Boschetti
 * Craig Bragg
 * Brandon Chillar
 * Kenyon Coleman
 * Bruce Davis
 * Maurice Jones-Drew
 * Donnie Edwards
 * Mike Flanagan
 * Bryan Fletcher
 * DeShaun Foster
 * Spencer Havner
 * Chris Horton
 * Travis Kirschke
 * Chris Kluwe
 * Rodney Leisle


 * Marcedes Lewis
 * Ricky Manning, Jr.
 * Chane Moline
 * Rahim Moore
 * Ryan Nece
 * Ryan Neufeld
 * Jarrad Page
 * Logan Paulsen
 * Tab Perry
 * Brian Price
 * Marcus Reese
 * Mike Seidman
 * Matthew Slater
 * Robert Thomas
 * Alterraun Verner
 * Steven Vieira
 * Matt Ware
 * Manuel White
 * Shaun Williams
 * Matthew Willis

Other famous players

 * Kermit Alexander
 * Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar (Karim Abdul-Jabbar, née Sharmon Shah)
 * Flipper Anderson
 * Steve Bono
 * Cormac J. Carney
 * Lynn Compton
 * Randy Cross
 * Jim Decker
 * Dennis Dummit
 * Donnie Edwards
 * Mel Farr
 * DeShaun Foster
 * Gaston Green
 * Mark Harmon
 * Kermit Johnson
 * Norm Johnson
 * Ronnie Knox
 * Carnell Lake
 * Tommy Maddox
 * James McAlister


 * Jim McElroy
 * Jamir Miller
 * Rick Neuheisel
 * Cade McNown
 * Freddie Mitchell
 * Ken Norton, Jr.
 * Roman Phifer
 * Jackie Robinson
 * Chris Sailer
 * Jay Schroeder
 * Donn Shinnick
 * J.J. Stokes
 * Gary Lockwood
 * Woody Strode
 * Eric Turner
 * Wendell Tyler
 * Herb Welch
 * James Washington
 * Bob Waterfield

All-Century UCLA Bruin Team
Chosen in 1999 by fan vote

Offense

C—Dave Dalby

G—Hardiman Cureton

G—Randy Cross

T—Jonathan Ogden

T—Kris Farris

TE—Tim Wrightman

QB—	Troy Aikman

RB—  Skip Hicks Kermit Johnson>Mel Farr RB—	Freeman McNeil Maurice Jones-Drew RB—	Kenny Washington

SE—	Tom Fears

FL—	J. J. Stokes

K—	John Lee

Defense

DL—	Manu Tuiasosopo

DL—	Irv Eatman

DL—	Jack Ellena

DL—	Floyd Reese

MG—	Cliff Frazier

LB—	Jerry Robinson

LB—	Donn Moomaw

DB—	Kenny Easley

DB—	Don Rogers

DB—	Eric Turner

DB —	Bob Stiles

P—	Ben Wilson

Retired numbers

 * 5 Kenny Easley
 * 13 Kenny Washington
 * 16 Gary Beban
 * 34 Paul Cameron


 * 38 Burr Baldwin
 * 79 Jonathan Ogden
 * 80 Donn Moomaw
 * 84 Jerry Robinson

Team records
Consecutive wins: 20, 1997–1998; Consecutive wins at Home: 12, 1946–1947; Consecutive games without being shut out: 245, 1971–1992 Consecutive shutouts of opponents: 3, 1954–1955

Individual records
Most rushing yards (game): 322 Maurice Drew against University of Washington Most rushing yards (season): 1,571 Karim Abdul-Jabbar in the 1995 season Most rushing yards (career): 3,731 Gaston Green 1984–1987

Most passing yards (game): 513 (tie) Cade McNown against Miami and Drew Olson against Arizona State Most passing yards (season): 3,470 Cade McNown in the 1998 season Most passing yards (career): 10,708 Cade McNown 1995–1998 Most Total Yards pass&rush(career): 11,285 Cade McNown 1995–1998 Most passing touchdowns (game): 6 Drew Olson against Oregon State University (2005) Most passing touchdowns (season): 34 Drew Olson in the 2005 season Most passing touchdowns (career): 68 Cade McNown 1995–1998 Most yards gained Punt Return (game): 162 Maurice Drew against University of California 2005 Most receiving yards (game): 263 J.J. Stokes against USC Most receiving yards (season): 1,494 Freddie Mitchell in the 2000 season Most receiving yards (career): 3,020 Danny Farmer 1996–1999

All-purpose yards (season): 1,878 Terrence Austin 2008

Most interceptions (season): 15 1986

Media
KLAC 570-AM in Los Angeles ("AM 570") is the current flagship radio station for UCLA football. Chris Roberts and Matt Stevens are the current broadcast team in the booth, along with sideline reporter Wayne Cook, who is a former Bruin quarterback.

Former play-by-play announcers include John Rebenstorf (1991), Paul Olden (1989–1990) , Joel Meyers (1984–1988) , Kent Derdivanis (1983–1985) , Fred Hessler (1961–1982) , and Roy Storey. Former UCLA football analysts include Billy Ray Smith (1997–2000), Steve Hartman (1996), David Norrie (1991–1995) , John Rebenstorf (1990), Bob Steinbrinck (1972–1989), Bob Waterfield (1959), Sam Balter (1950–1958).

Additional sources

 * ESPN College Football Encyclopedia (Pages 908–915)