1912 Ohio State Buckeyes football team

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1912 Ohio State Buckeyes football
OAC champion
Conference Ohio Athletic Conference
Record6–3 (5–0 OAC)
Head coach
Home stadium Ohio Field
Seasons
  1911
1913  
1912 Ohio Athletic Conference football standings
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Ohio State $ 5 0 06 3 0
Oberlin 5 1 07 1 0
Western Reserve 4 1 05 4 0
Denison 4 1 16 1 1
Miami (OH) 1 1 23 3 2
Case 3 3 04 5 0
Wittenberg 2 3 16 3 1
Kenyon 2 3 14 3 1
Ohio Wesleyan 2 5 03 6 0
Wooster 1 4 11 4 1
Cincinnati 0 3 13 4 1
Ohio 0 4 11 7 1
  • $ Conference champion

The 1912 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented Ohio State University in the 1912 college football season. 1912 was the year that Ohio State was accepted into the Western Conference, now known as the Big Ten Conference, where they would begin competition in 1913. [1]

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1912 would also be the first of several games between Ohio State and Penn State, [2] as well as Ohio State against Michigan State, who was known as Michigan Agricultural at the time. [3] Michigan State would join the Big Ten Conference in 1953 and Penn State would follow in 1993. [4]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 5at Otterbein * Westerville, OH W 55–0
October 12 Denison
  • Ohio Field
  • Columbus, OH
W 34–0
October 19 Michigan *
L 0–1410,000
October 26 Cincinnati
  • Ohio Field
  • Columbus, OH
W 45–7
November 2at Case
W 31–6
November 9 Oberlin
  • Ohio Field
  • Columbus, OH
W 23–17
November 16 Penn State *
L 0–373,500 [5]
November 23at Ohio Wesleyan Delaware, OH W 36–6
November 28 Michigan Agricultural *
  • Ohio Field
  • Columbus, OH
L 20–35
  • *Non-conference game

Lettermen

These are the Ohio State University lettermen of the 1912 season. [6]

References

  1. "Big Ten History". Big Ten Conference. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on November 14, 2013. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
  2. "Ohio State vs. Penn State Full Games List". Winsipedia. Retrieved October 22, 2025.
  3. "Ohio State vs. Michigan State Full Games List". Winsipedia. Retrieved October 22, 2025.
  4. "Big Ten Expansion: A Legacy of Strategic Growth". Big Ten Conference. August 29, 2025. Retrieved October 20, 2025.
  5. "Ohio State Doesn't Like Penn's Ways". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 17, 1912. p. 16 via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Ohio State Buckeyes football 1912 Roster - Lost Lettermen". old.lostlettermen.com. Retrieved September 8, 2015.[ permanent dead link ]