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1923 Dayton Flyers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–5
Head coach
Home stadiumVarsity Field
Seasons
←  1922
1924 →
1923 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Marquette     8 0 0
Notre Dame     9 1 0
Western State Normal (MI)     6 1 1
Haskell     11 2 1
Butler     7 2 0
Central Michigan     5 1 2
Baldwin–Wallace     5 2 1
Cincinnati     6 3 0
Loyola (IL)     6 3 0
Saint Louis     5 3 1
Detroit     4 3 2
Wabash     4 3 2
John Carroll     4 4 1
Valparaiso     2 2 1
Dayton     4 5 0
Michigan Agricultural     3 5 0
Fairmount     2 4 2
Kent State     0 5 0

The 1923 Dayton Flyers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Dayton as an independent during the 1923 college football season. The team compiled a 4–5 record. [1]

Harry Baujan was hired as Dayton's head football coach prior to the 1923 season. He had played football under Knute Rockne at Notre Dame. [2] In his first game as head coach, Baujan led Dayton to a 161-0 victory over the Indiana Central Normal School. [3]

Baujan served as Dayton's head coach through the 1946 season and was posthumously inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1990. [4]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 29 Indiana Central Normal
W 161–0 [3]
October 6 Duquesne
  • South Park Field
  • Dayton, OH
W 27–0 [5]
October 13 Transylvania
  • Varsity Field
  • Dayton, OH
W 35–0
October 20 Marietta
  • Varsity Field
  • Dayton, OH
L 0–6
October 27at Canisius
L 0–12 [6]
November 3 John Carroll
L 0–27
November 17at Lafayette Easton, PAL 0–45 [7]
November 24 Wilmington
  • Varsity Field
  • Dayton, OH
W 34–0
November 29at Ashland Ashland, OHL 2–12

References

  1. ^ "2018 Dayton Flyers Media Guide" (PDF). University of Dayton. 2018. p. 14.
  2. ^ "Beaujan Arrives Ready for Work". The Dayton Herald. September 4, 1923. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ a b "U.D. Wins Opener By 161-0 Score: Varsity Eleven Rolls Over Foe in One-Sided Grid Clash". Dayton Daily News. September 30, 1923. p. II-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Harry Baujan". National Football Foundation. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  5. ^ "Varsity Machine Rolls Up Win Over Duquesne By Score of 27 to 0". Dayton Daily News. October 7, 1923. pp. Sports 1, 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Canisius Downs Dayton, 12-0". Buffalo Express. October 28, 1923 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Dayton University Blanked By Lafayette Grid Squad". The Morning Call. November 18, 1923. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.