1915 Brown Bears football team

The 1915 Brown Bears football team was an American football team that represented Brown University as an independent during the 1915 college football season. In its 14th season under head coach Edward N. Robinson, Brown compiled a 5–3–1 record in the regular season, lost to Washington State in the second Rose Bowl game, and outscored all opponents by a total of 166 to 46.[1] The team played its home games at Andrews Field in Providence, Rhode Island. Notable players included Fritz Pollard, Zach Siebel, and Wallace Wade.

1915 Brown Bears football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–4–1
Head coach
Home stadiumAndrews Field
1915 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Cornell    9 0 0
Pittsburgh    8 0 0
Columbia    5 0 0
Harvard    8 1 0
Carnegie Tech    7 1 0
Rutgers    7 1 0
Villanova    6 1 0
Washington & Jefferson    8 1 1
Colgate    5 1 0
Syracuse    9 1 2
Dartmouth    7 1 1
Tufts    5 1 2
Penn State    7 2 0
Lafayette    8 3 0
Princeton    6 2 0
Franklin & Marshall    6 2 0
Temple    3 1 1
Geneva    6 3 0
Wesleyan    6 3 0
Allegheny    5 3 0
Swarthmore    5 3 0
Army    5 3 1
Lehigh    6 4 0
Holy Cross    3 2 2
Brown    5 4 1
Fordham    4 4 0
NYU    4 4 1
Middlebury    3 4 2
Muhlenberg    4 5 0
Yale    4 5 0
Boston College    3 4 0
Penn    3 5 2
WPI    3 5 1
Buffalo    3 5 0
Carlisle    3 6 2
Rhode Island State    3 5 0
New Hampshire    3 6 1
Gettysburg    3 6 0
Rochester    3 6 0
Bucknell    2 6 3
Vermont    1 4 2
Williams    1 7 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 25Rhode Island State
W 38–0
October 2Trinity (CT)
  • Andrews Field
  • Providence, RI
T 0–0
October 9at AmherstL 0–7
October 16Williams
  • Andrews Field
  • Providence, RI
W 33–0
October 23Syracuse
  • Andrews Field
  • Providence, RI
L 0–6
October 30Vermont
  • Andrews Field
  • Providence, RI
W 46–0[2]
November 6at YaleW 3–0[3]
November 13HarvardL 7–16
November 27Carlisle
  • Andrews Field
  • Providence, RI
W 39–3
January 1, 1916vs. Washington StateL 0–1410,000

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References

  1. 1915 Brown Records Archived 2015-11-25 at the Wayback Machine, College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved June 19, 2009. Archived 2009-06-22.
  2. "Brown put Vermont out". The New York Times. October 31, 1915. Retrieved June 18, 2021 via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Yale Disappointing; Humbled by Brown". The New York Times. November 7, 1915. p. 38 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "1915 Brown Bears Schedule and Results".


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