The 1936 Stanford Indians football team represented Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

 in the 1936 college football season

1936 college football season

The 1936 college football season was the first in which the Associated Press writers' poll selected a national champion. The first AP poll, taken of 35 writers, was released on October 20, 1936...

. After winning three consecutive Pacific Coast Conference

Pacific Coast Conference

The Pacific Coast Conference was a college athletic conference in the United States which existed from 1915 to 1959. Though the Pacific-12 Conference claims the PCC's history as part of its own, the older league had a completely different charter and was disbanded in 1959 due to a major crisis...

 Championships the three prior seasons and the 1936 Rose Bowl

1936 Rose Bowl

The 1936 Rose Bowl was the 22nd Rose Bowl game, an American post-season college football game that was played on New Year's Day 1936 in Pasadena, California. It featured the undefeated against the , which had one loss...

 on January 1, the Indians won only two games in head coach Tiny Thornill

Claude E. Thornhill

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's fourth season at Stanford. With a 2–5–2 record, Stanford lost more games in the 1936 season than in the prior three seasons combined and produced the school's worst season since the 1899 season

1899 Stanford football team

The 1899 Stanford football team represented Stanford University in the 1899 college football season. With a 2–5–2 record in head coach Burr Chamberlain's only season at the school, the Stanford football team lost as many games in 1899 as they had in the previous four seasons combined and produced...

 when the Indians finished with an identical 2–5–2 record. The team played their home games at Stanford Stadium

Stanford Stadium

Stanford Stadium is an outdoor athletic stadium on the Stanford University campus, the home of Stanford Cardinal college football team. It originally opened in 1921 as a football and track stadium, an earthen horseshoe with wooden bleacher seating and flooring upon a steel frame...

 in Stanford, California

Stanford, California

Stanford is a census-designated place in Santa Clara County, California, United States and is the home of Stanford University. The population was 13,809 at the 2010 census....

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