1918 Case Scientists football team

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1918 Case Scientists football
1918 Case football team.jpg
Conference Ohio Athletic Conference
Record3–5–2 (2–3–2 OAC)
Head coach
Home stadiumVan Horn Field
Seasons
 1917
1919 
1918 Ohio Athletic Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Wittenberg $ 3 0 04 0 0
Miami (OH) 4 0 15 0 1
Mount Union 5 1 06 1 0
Wooster 5 1 06 1 0
Western Reserve 5 1 05 2 0
Ohio 1 0 14 0 1
Cincinnati 0 0 23 0 2
Ohio Wesleyan 2 2 03 2 0
Case 2 3 23 5 2
Akron 1 2 12 2 1
Oberlin 1 4 01 4 0
Baldwin–Wallace 0 4 15 4 1
Kenyon 0 4 01 4 0
Ohio Northern 0 5 01 5 0
Denison 0 5 01 6 0
Ohio State * 3 0 03 3 0
  • $ Conference champion
  • * – did not complete for championship

The 1918 Case Scientists football team represented the Case School of Applied Science, now a part of Case Western Reserve University, during the 1918 college football season. The team's head coach was Pat Pasini. [1]

Due to the Spanish flu pandemic, Case played the Wooster and Hiram games behind locked gates with no fans and cancelled their games with Ohio Wesleyan and Kenyon. [2] The game against Baldwin–Wallace was rescheduled from September 21 to midweek contest on November 6 and Hiram was added late in the year. [3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 28 Notre Dame *
L 6–26
October 5at Michigan *L 0–33
October 12at Ohio Wesleyan canceled
October 19 Kenyon canceled
October 26at Mount Union
L 0–19
October 30 Hiram *
  • Van Horn Field
  • Cleveland, OH
W 41–2
November 2 Wooster
  • Van Horn Field
  • Cleveland, OH
W 7–6
November 6 Baldwin–Wallace
  • Van Horn Field
  • Cleveland, OH
T 0–0
November 9at Ohio State *L 0–56
November 16at Oberlin
W 17–0
November 23at Akron
T 0–0
November 28 Western Reserve
  • Van Horn Field
  • Cleveland, OH
L 7–14
  • *Non-conference game

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  2. "Reference at www.news-herald.com".
  3. "The Case Tech 23 January 1918 — Case Western Reserve University".