In its third season under head coach Jim Owens , Washington was 9 – 1 in the regular season and 3 – 1 in the Athletic Association of Western Universities , one of three co-champions of the five-team AAWU in its inaugural year . The Pacific Coast Conference ( PCC ) had disbanded in the spring , and the AAWU consisted of the four teams from state of California and the Huskies . The other four PCC teams from the north ( Oregon , Oregon State , Washington State , and Idaho ) were independent for several years . ( Washington defeated all four this season . ) The Cougars joined the league in 1962 and the Oregon schools in 1964 ; it was later renamed the Pacific-8 Conference
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1959 Washington Huskies football team