The 1958 Buffalo Bulls football team represented the

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in the

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. The Bulls offense scored 236 points while the defense allowed 101 points. The team won the Lambert Cup, emblematic of supremacy in Eastern U.S. small-college football. The Bulls were invited to play in the Tangerine Bowl against

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. The team voted to turn down the bowl invitation after learning that they would be allowed to participate only if the team's two black players, back-up defensive end Mike Wilson and starting halfback Willie Evans, did not play in the game. The 1958 Bulls team was profiled on ESPN's '' Outside the Lines'' in 2008. Buffalo would not be invited to a bowl or be bowl-eligible for another 50 years.

Schedule

After the season

NFL draft

The following Bull was selected in the National Football League draft following the season.

References

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