American college football season
The 1956 Oklahoma A&M Cowboys football team represented Oklahoma A&M College in the 1956 college football season. This was the 56th year of football at A&M and the second under Cliff Speegle. The Cowboys played their home games at Lewis Field in Stillwater, Oklahoma. They finished the season 3–5–2, 2–1–1 in their final season in the Missouri Valley Conference.[1]
Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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September 22 | at Kansas State* | | W 27–7 | 15,000 | |
September 29 | at Arkansas* | | L 7–19 | | |
October 6 | at Wichita | | W 32–6 | | |
October 13 | at Tulsa | | T 14–14 | 19,391 | |
October 20 | Houston![dagger](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Dagger-14-plain.png) | | L 0–13 | 25,000 | |
October 26 | Kansas* | - Lewis Field
- Stillwater, OK
| L 13–21 | 14,000 | |
November 3 | at Texas Tech* | | T 13–13 | 17,000 | |
November 10 | at LSU* | | L 0–13 | | |
November 17 | Detroit | - Lewis Field
- Stillwater, OK
| W 25–7 | | [2] |
December 1 | at No. 1 Oklahoma* | | L 0–53 | 36,500 | |
- *Non-conference game
Homecoming- Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
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The 1957 NFL draft was held on January 31, 1957. The following Cowboy was selected.[3]
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