The 1969 All-Pacific Coast football team consists of

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players chosen by the

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(AP), the

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(UPI), and the

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coaches (Coaches) as the best college football players by position in the Pacific Coast region during the

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. The AP and UPI selections included players from within and outside the Pacific-8 Conference. The Coaches selections were limited to Pacific-8 players. The 1969 UCLA Bruins football team led all other programs with nine players selected to one or more of the first teams. UCLA's first-team players were: running backs Greg Jones (AP-1, UPI-1, Coaches-1) and Mickey Cureton (UPI-1); end Gwen Cooper (AP-1, UPI-1, Coaches-1); offensive tackle Gordon Bosserman (UPI-1); offensive guard Dennis Alumbaugh (AP-1, Coaches-1); defensive tackles

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(AP-1, Coaches-1) and Wes Grant (Coaches-1); linebacker Mike Ballou (AP-1, UPI-1, Coaches-1); and defensive back Ron Carver (UPI-1). The undefeated

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was ranked No. 3 in the final

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and placed seven players on the first team: running back

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(AP-1, UPI-1, Coaches-1); offensive tackle Sid Smith (AP-1, UPI-1, Coaches-1); offensive guard Fred Khasigian (AP-1, UPI-1, Coaches-1); defensive end

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(AP-1, UPI-1); defensive tackle

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(AP-1, UPI-1, Coaches-1); and defensive backs Tyrone Hudson (AP-1, Coaches-1) and

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(UPI-1).

Offensive selections

Quarterbacks

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, Stanford (AP-1; UPI-1; Coaches-1) *

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, San Diego State (AP-2; UPI-2)

Running backs

, USC (AP-1; UPI-1; Coaches-1) * Greg Jones,

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(AP-1; UPI-1; Coaches-1) * Bobby Moore,

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(AP-1; UPI-1 nd Coaches-1) (later Ahmad Rashad) * Mickey Cureton, UCLA (AP-2; UPI-1) * Bob Cornell, Washington (AP-2) * Gary Fowler, California (AP-2) * Bubba Brown, Stanford (UPI-2) * George Farmer, UCLA (UPI-2) * Billy Main, Oregon State (UPI-2)

Ends

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, UCLA (AP-1; UPI-1; Coaches-1) *

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, Stanford (AP-1; UPI-2; Coaches-1) * Tom Reynolds, San Diego State (AP-2; UPI-2) * Sam Dickerson, USC (AP-2)

Tackles

* Sid Smith, USC (AP-1; UPI-1; Coaches-1) * Bob Richards,

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(AP-1; UPI-2; Coaches-1) * Gordon Bosserman, UCLA (AP-2; UPI-1) *

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, Washington (AP-2) * Pete Seymour, Stanford (UPI-2)

Guards

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, USC (AP-1; UPI-1; Coaches-1) * Dennis Alumbaugh, UCLA (AP-1; UPI-2; Coaches-1) *

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, Stanford (AP-2; UPI-1) * Greg Hendren, California (AP-2) * Steve Lehmer, USC (UPI-2)

Centers

* John Sande, Stanford (AP-2; UPI-1; Coaches-1) * Bill Pierson, San Diego State (AP-1) * Mike White, Oregon State (UPI-2)

Defensive selections

Defensive ends

, USC (AP-1; UPI-1) * Irby Augustine, California (AP-1; UPI-1) * Charlie Weaver, USC (AP-2) *

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, UCLA (AP-2; UPI-2) * Dennis Gasner, Oregon State (UPI-2)

Defensive tackles

, USC (AP-1 efensive tackle UPI-1 efensive tackle Coaches-1 nterior line *

, UCLA (AP-1 efensive tackle UPI-2 efensive tackle Coaches-1 interior line]) * Wes Grant, UCLA (Coaches-1 nterior line * Lee Brock, Washington (AP-2 efensive tackle UPI-1 efensive tackle * Tody Smith, USC (AP-2) * Bill Nelson, Oregon State (AP-2)

Middle guards

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(AP-1 iddle guard UPI-2 efensive tackle Coaches-1 nterior line

Linebackers

* Mike Ballou, UCLA (AP-1; UPI-1; Coaches-1) * Don Parish, Stanford (AP-1; UPI-1; Coaches-1) * Tom Graham, Oregon (AP-1; UPI-1) * Phil Croyle, California (AP-2; UPI-2) * Greg Slough, USC (AP-2) * Pat Preston, Stanford (AP-2) * Vic Ornelas, Pacific (UPI-2) * Paul Martyr, California (UPI-2)

Defensive backs

* Lionel Thomas,

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(AP-1; UPI-1; Coaches-1) * Mel Easley, Oregon State (AP-1; UPI-2; Coaches-1) * Tyrone Hudson, USC (AP-1; UPI-2; Coaches-1) * Rich Keller, Stanford (AP-2; Coaches-1) *

, USC (AP-2; UPI-1) * Ron Carver, UCLA (AP-2; UPI-1) * Ken Wiedemann, California (UPI-1) * Jim Kauffman, Stanford (UPI-2) * Jack Gleason, Oregon (UPI-2)

Key

AP =

UPI =

Coaches = selected by the Pac-8 head football coaches

References

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