About: Saint Mary's Gaels football

The Saint Mary's Gaels football program was the intercollegiate American football team for Saint Mary's College of California in Moraga, California. The school's first football team was fielded in 1892, and it was nationally prominent in the 1930s and 1940s, winning the Cotton Bowl in January 1939 and losing in the Sugar Bowl in January 1946. That 1945 team won its first seven games and was ranked seventh in the AP poll entering the bowl game. Many home games of this era were played at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco.