| Year: | 1955 |
| Team: | Compton Tartars |
| Sport: | football |
| Conference: | Western State Conference |
| Short Conf: | WSC |
| Record: | 11–0 |
| Conf Record: | 5–0 |
| Head Coach: | Tay Brown |
| Hc Year: | 16th |
| Stadium: | Ramsaur Stadium |
| Champion: | Junior college national champion WSC champion Junior Rose Bowl champion |
| Bowl: | Junior Rose Bowl |
| Bowl Result: | W 22–13 vs. |
The 1955 Compton Tartars football team was an American football team that represented Compton College as a member of the Western State Conference (WSC) during the 1955 junior college football season. In their 16th-year under head coach Tay Brown, the Tartars compiled a perfect 11–0 record (5–0 in conference games), won the WSC championship, defeated in the Junior Rose Bowl, and outscored all opponents by a total of 403 to 63.
At the end of the regular season, Compton was ranked No. 1 and Jones County No. 2 in the junior college rankings.[1] With its victory over Jones County in the Junior Rose Bowl, Compton was acknowledged as the junior college national champion.[2] [3]
Halfback Jim Waddell set the school's single game rushing record with 317 yards, scored 107 points, and ranked with the school's all-time rushing and scoring leaders (and Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees), Hugh McElhenny and Joe Perry.[4] [5]
Compton placed five players on the first team of the 1955 All-Western State Conference football team: Jim Waddell and Lee Mack at back; Jack Atwood at center; Dick Long at guard; and David Main at tackle. Four others were named to the second team: Bunny Aldrich at back; Marvin Perz at guard; Joe Lewis at tackle; and Charles McNeil at end.[6] Lee Mack scored nine touchdowns in the first eight games of the season, but missed the remainder of the season after fracturing his hip in the game against Glendale.[7]
The team played its home games at Ramsaur Stadium in Compton, California.