1959 record 5–5 (3–2 MSC) Home stadium Ute Stadium | Head coach Ray Nagel (2nd year) | |
Conference Mountain States Conference | ||
The 1959 Utah Utes football team represented the University of Utah during the 1959 college football season. Home games were played on campus in Salt Lake City at Ute Stadium.
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Under second-year head coach Ray Nagel, the Utes were 5–5 overall and 3–2 in the Mountain States Conference (Skyline). They were led on the field by junior quarterback Terry Nofsinger and senior safety (& halfback) Larry Wilson, a future member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Conference members New Mexico and Montana were not played in 1960, and the Utes defeated both in-state rivals: BYU by twelve points and Utah State by fourteen.
For the first of two consecutive seasons, Utah did not face longtime rival Colorado; they first played in 1903 and had met every year except two (1909, 1918). The series resumed in 1961 and 1962, then went on hiatus until 2011, when both schools joined the Pac-12 Conference.
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NFL draft
Utah had two players selected in the 1960 NFL Draft.
Larry Wilson played thirteen NFL seasons and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1978, his first year of eligibility.