The 1959 Kansas State Wildcats football team represented Kansas State University in the 1959 college football season. The team's head football coach was Bus Mertes, in his last year at K-State. The Wildcats played their home games in Memorial Stadium. 1959 saw the Wildcats finish with a record of 2-8, and a 1-5 record in Big Seven Conference play. The Wildcats scored only 58 points while giving up 232. The finished seventh in the Big Seven.
Schedule
Date |
Opponent# |
Rank# |
Site |
Result |
Attendance |
9/19/1959 |
Wichita* |
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Memorial Stadium • Manhattan, KS |
L 0-19 |
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9/26/1959 |
at South Dakota State* |
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State Field • Brookings, SD |
W 28-12 |
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10/3/1959 |
at Oklahoma State |
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Memorial Stadium • Manhattan, KS |
L 21-28 |
8,500 |
10/10/1959 |
Colorado |
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Memorial Stadium • Manhattan, KS |
L 17-20 |
10,000 |
10/16/1959 |
at Kansas |
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Memorial Stadium • Lawrence, KS |
L 14-33 |
27,000 |
10/24/1959 |
at Iowa State |
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Clyde Williams Field • Ames, IA |
L 0-26 |
13,899 |
10/31/1959 |
at Iowa* |
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Iowa Stadium • Iowa City, IA |
L 0-53 |
45,000 |
11/7/1959 |
#18 Oklahoma |
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Memorial Stadium • Manhattan, KS |
L 0-36 |
11,204 |
11/14/1959 |
at Missouri |
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Memorial Stadium • Columbia, MO |
L 0-26 |
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11/21/1959 |
Nebraska |
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Memorial Stadium • Manhattan, KS |
W 29-14 |
8,318 |
*Non-conference game. Homecoming. #Rankings from AP. All times are in Central Time. |
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