1916 Ohio State Buckeyes football team

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1916 Ohio State Buckeyes football
Western Conference champion
Conference Western Conference, Ohio Athletic Conference
Record7–0 (4–0 Western, 3–0 OAC)
Head coach
Offensive schemeHeavy run
Base defenseMulti
Home stadium Ohio Field
Uniform
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Seasons
  1915
1917  
1916 Western Conference football standings
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Ohio State $400700
Northwestern 410610
Minnesota 310610
Chicago 330340
Illinois 221331
Wisconsin 121421
Iowa 120430
Indiana 031241
Purdue 041241
  • $ Conference champion
1916 Ohio Athletic Conference football standings
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Miami (OH) $601701
Mount Union 610820
Denison 502512
Ohio 411521
Wooster 520620
Case 430550
Ohio Wesleyan 222232
Western Reserve 340370
Akron 240270
Ohio Northern 250370
Kenyon 250270
Wittenberg 051252
Cincinnati 061082
Baldwin–Wallace 010020
Oberlin 050070
Ohio State *300700
  • $ Conference champion
  • * – did not complete for championship
Ohio State scoring a touchdown against Case, while playing at Van Horn Field in University Circle, Cleveland. Ohio State vs Case 1916 football (cropped).jpg
Ohio State scoring a touchdown against Case, while playing at Van Horn Field in University Circle, Cleveland.

The 1916 Ohio State Buckeyes football was an American football team that represented Ohio State University as a member of the Western Conference and the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) during the 1916 college football season. In their fourth year under head coach John Wilce, the Buckeyes compiled a perfect 7–0 record and outscored opponents 258 to 29. Ohio State was 4–0 Western Conference opponents, winning the conference championship, the first in school history. [1]

Half of the team's points were tallied in a 128–0 victory over Oberlin. The 128 points scored against Oberlin remains a single-game Ohio State record. [2]

Halfback Chic Harley was a consensus first-team pick on the 1916 All-America college football team. [3] Other notable players included end Charles Bolen, center Ferdinand Holtkamp, and tackle Bob Karch.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 7 Ohio Wesleyan W 12–0
October 14 Oberlin
  • Ohio Field
  • Columbus, OH
W 128–0 [4]
October 21at Illinois W 7–6
November 4 Wisconsin
  • Ohio Field
  • Columbus, OH
W 14-13
November 11 Indiana
  • Ohio Field
  • Columbus, OH
W 46–7
November 18at Case
W 28–0
November 25 Northwestern
  • Ohio Field
  • Columbus, OH
W 23–3

References

  1. "1916 Ohio State Buckeyes Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 11, 2022.
  2. Park, Jack (2003). The Official Ohio State Football Encyclopedia, Sports Publishing LLC, p.694.
  3. "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  4. "World's Record Is Established by Ohio State". Springfield Sunday News. October 15, 1916 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Case Football 1916/17".