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1915 Brown Bears football
1916 Rose Bowl program
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–4–1
Head coach
Home stadiumAndrews Field
Seasons
←  1914
1916 →
1915 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   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

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.

Season

Notable players included Fritz Pollard, Zach Siebel, and Wallace Wade, and saw Brown's first and only appearance at the Rose Bowl.

Schedule

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

[4]

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".