Bob Waterfield

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QB Bob Waterfield

Career Highlights

  • Lettered 1941,42,44.
  • Team captain in 1944.
  • Led Bruins to it's first Rose Bowl.
  • Set school record at the time for interception in a season (1942) with seven. Still ranks fifth in the school's all-time single-season list.

Pro highlights

  • 1945 Cleveland Rams, 1946-1952 Los Angeles Rams
  • Cleveland Rams' No. 3 future draft pick in 1944
  • NFL's Most Valuable Player as rookie in 1945
  • Two TD passes keyed Rams' 1945 title win
  • Was All-NFL three times, NFL passing champ twice
  • Career marks include 11,849 yards, 98 TDs passing; 573 points on 13 TDs, 315 PATs, 60 FGs; 42.4-yard punting average
  • Also played defense first four years where he intercepted 20 passes.

ACCOLADES

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 Starting quarterbacks

Birlenbach (1925,26,27)  · Russom (1927,28,29)  · Solomon (1927,29,30)  · Leonard Bergdahl (30-31-32)  · Frankovich (1932,33,34)  · Murphy (1933-34-35)  · Earl Harris (1935,36,37)  · Mathews (1938,39,40)  · Waterfield (1941, 42, 44)  · Case (1941,45,46)  · Reiges (1946,47)  · Nagel (1946,47,48,49)  · Hershman (1949,50)  · Debay/Ballard (1954)  · Knox/Ballard (1955)  · Bradley (1956)  · Shinnick  · Gertsman (1957)  · Long/Steffen (1958)  · Kilmer (1959, 1960)  · Smith/Haffner (1961)  · Zeno (1962, 1963, 1964)  · Beban (1965, 1966, 1967)  · Dow  · Bolden (1968)  · Dummit (1969, 1970)  · Flores (1971)  · Harmon (1972)  · Harmon/Sciarra (1973)  · Sciarra (1974, 1975)  · Dankworth (1976)  · Bukich  · Bashore (1977, 1978)  · Bashore/Quarles/Ramsey (1979)  · Ramsey (1980, 1981, 1982)  · Schroeder  · Bono/Neuheisel (1983)  · Bono (1984)  · Norrie (1985)  · Stevens (1986)  · Aikman (1987, 1988)  · Johnson (1989)  · Bonds/Maddox (1990)  · Maddox (1991)  · Walker/Barnes (1992)  · Cook (1993, 1994)  · Fien  · McNown (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998)  · Bennett/Paus/McCann (1999)  · Paus/McCann/McEwan (2000)  · Paus (2001)  · Paus/Moore (2002)  · D. Olson/Moore (2003)  · D. Olson (2004, 2005)  · B. Olson/Cowan (2006)  · B. Olson/Cowan/Bethel-Thompson/Rasshan (2007)  · Craft (2008)  · Prince (2009)  · Prince/Brehaut (2010, 2011)  · Hundley (2012, 2013, 2014)  · Rosen (2015)  · Rosen/Fafaul (2016)  · Rosen/Modster (2017)  · Speight/Thompson-Robinson (2018)

From 1949-1956, UCLA employed the single-wing offense, in which the HB, FB, and QB were equally likely to throw the football.

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 Single-Season Interceptions Leaders

                    Year No  Yds  Avg   Cl
1. Gray, Carlton    1991 11  132  12.0  Jr
2. Moore, Rahim     2009 10   79   7.9  So
3. Stiles, Bob      1965  9  125  13.9  Jr
4. Stits, Bill      1952  8  235  29.4  Jr
5. Goodwin, Marvin  1993  7  136  19.4  Jr
   Rogers, Don      1983  7   81  11.6  Sr
   Easley, Kenny    1978  7   71  10.1  So
   Waterfield, Bob  1942  7   96  13.8  So
9. Atkins, Larry    1997  6  154  25.7  Jr
   Rutledge, Craig  1986  6  104  17.3  Sr
   Sullivan, Tom    1981  6   28   4.7  Jr
   Easley, Kenny    1977  6   33   5.5  Fr
   Nanoski, John    1973  6  106  17.7  Jr
   Allen, Jimmy     1972  6   42   7.0  Jr
   Carver, Ron      1969  6   97  16.2  So
   Green, Sandy     1967  6   51   8.5  Sr
   Davis, Milt      1952  6   83  13.8  Jr
   Johnson, Ernie   1946  6   58   9.7  Fr
   Reiges, Ben      1946  6    —     —  Jr
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