The 1973 UCLA Bruins football team represented the University of California, Los Angeles during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. Members of the Pacific-8 Conference, the Bruins were led by third-year head coach Pepper Rodgers and played their home games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Quarterbacks Mark Harmon and John Sciarra ran the wishbone offense, and the Bruins were 9–2 overall and 6–1 on the Pac-8. After an opening loss at fourth-ranked Nebraska, the Bruins won nine straight, but lost again to USC in the season finale. UCLA repeated as conference runner-up, but the Pac-8 did not allow a second bowl team until the 1975 season. They were ranked twelfth in the final AP poll, ninth in the UPI coaches poll.
Schedule
College Football @ Sports-Reference.com
Game summaries at No. 4 Nebraska
Iowa
Source: Box Score
vs. No. 9 USC
Roster
QB Mark Harmon PK Efrén Herrera RB Kermit Johnson FB James McAlister QB John Sciarra C Randy Cross OG Eugene Clark TE Gene Bleymaier
FS Jim Bright LB Jack Jorgensen LB Terry Tautolo LB Fulton Kuykendall
Awards and honors First Team All Americans: Jimmy Allen (DB), Efrén Herrera (K), Kermit Johnson (RB, Consensus selection), James McAlister (RB), Fred McNeill (DE)1975 UCLA Media Guide, UCLA Athletic News Bureau, 1975 All Conference First Team: Jimmy Allen (DB), James Bright (DB), Kermit Johnson (RB), Ed Kezirian (OT), Steve Klosterman (OG), Fulton Kuykendall (LB), Fred McNeill (DE), John Nanoski (DB), Al Oliver (OT), Cal Peterson (DE)
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