The 1956 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team represented Santa Barbara College

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was known as Santa Barbara College of the University of California from 1944 to 1957. during the 1956 NCAA College Division football season. Santa Barbara competed in the

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(CCAA). The team was led by first-year head coach

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, and played home games at La Playa Stadium in

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. They finished the season with a record of five wins and five losses (5–5, 1–1 CCAA). At the end of the season, but Gauchos accepted an invitation to play in a charity bowl game. The game was the first and only Citricado Bowl, played at

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against a military team from

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