The 1969 Colorado Buffaloes football team represented the

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in the Big Eight Conference during the 1969 NCAA University Division football season. Led by seventh-year head coach

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, Colorado finished the regular season at 7–3 (5–2 in Big 8, third), and played their home games on campus at

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. Invited to the

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, the Buffs defeated

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47–33 to complete the season at 8–3; CU outscored its opponents 276 to 227 and climbed to sixteenth in the final AP poll.

Schedule

Personnel

Roster

Coaching staff

* Head coach:

* Assistants: Chet Franklin (OC), Don James (DC), Ken Blair (DE), Rick Duval (WR), C.B. McGowan (backs), Jim Mora (DL), Steve Ortmayer (OL), Steve Sidwell (LB), Augie Tammariello (OL), Dan Stavely (Freshmen)

Starters

* Offense: QB Jim Batten/Paul Arendt, TB Bobby Anderson, FB Ward Walsh, WR Bob Matsen, SE Monte Huber, TE Mike Pruett, TT Jim Phillips, TG Dick Melin, C Don Popplewell, SG Dennis Havig, ST Eddie Fusiek * Defense: LE Herb Ovis, LT Dave Perini/Bill Collins, RT Dave Capra, RE

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, OLB Bill Blanchard, MLB Phil Iriwn, OLB Rick Ogle, LCB Jim Cooch, LS Pat Murphy, RS Pete Jacobsen, RCB

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* Specialists: PK Dave Haney, P Dick Robert

NFL Draft

Three Buffaloes were selected in the 1970 NFL Draft, which was seventeen rounds (442 selections). :

References

External links

University of Colorado Athletics
– 1969 football roster

– 1969 Colorado football season

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