1915 Washington & Jefferson Presidents football team

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1915 Washington & Jefferson Presidents football
ConferenceIndependent
1915 record8–1–1
Head coach Bob Folwell (4th season)
Seasons
  1914
1916  
1915 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Cornell     900
Pittsburgh     800
Columbia     500
Harvard     810
Carnegie Tech     710
Rutgers     710
Villanova     610
Washington & Jefferson     811
Colgate     510
Syracuse     912
Dartmouth     711
Tufts     512
Penn State     720
Lafayette     830
Princeton     620
Franklin & Marshall     620
Temple     311
Wesleyan     630
Allegheny     530
Swarthmore     530
Army     531
Lehigh     640
Holy Cross     322
Brown     541
Buffalo     440
Fordham     440
NYU     441
Middlebury     342
Muhlenberg     450
Yale     450
Boston College     340
Penn     352
WPI     351
Carlisle     362
Rhode Island State     350
New Hampshire     361
Gettysburg     360
Rochester     360
Bucknell     263
Williams     170

The 1915 Washington & Jefferson Presidents football team represented the Washington & Jefferson College during the 1915 college football season. [1]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
GenevaW 6–0
West VirginiaT 6–6
LafayetteW 17–0
WestminsterW 34–0
YaleW 16–7
MuskingumW 47–7
PittL 0–19
WV WesleyanW 7–3
BethanyW 59–0
LehighW 27–3

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References

  1. "1915 Washington & Jefferson Presidents Schedule and Results". Sports Reference . Retrieved 30 November 2016.