The 1915 season

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The 1915 Nebraska teamPhoto: Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Scoreboards

Conference champions

Major college

Missouri Valley Conference: Nebraska
Rocky Mountain Conference: Colorado State
South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: Georgetown and Virginia (shared)
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association: Vanderbilt
Southwest Conference: Baylor and Oklahoma (shared)
Western Conference: Illinois and Minnesota (shared)

Small college

Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association: Hampton
Louisiana Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: Louisiana Tech

From each program’s Wikipedia article, with the conference’s name that season. Titles come from the articles of today’s FBS and FCS programs, so a title shared with a school outside them lists only one champion.

Consensus All-Americans

15 playersAll 10 selectors’ teams

Players picked by enough of the major selectors to count as consensus, shown in bold in Wikipedia’s 1915 All-America article. Every selector’s teams, first to last, are on the 1915 All-America teams page.

From the newspapers

The Evening star's story: LITTLE IN WAY OF UPSETS IN BIG FOOT BALL CONTESTS Harvard Fails to Cross Virginia Goal and Princeton Runs Up Big Score on Lafayette. GEORGETOWN Eleven Is Praise — Oct 16, 1915Harvard 9, Virginia 01915 Harvard · 1915 VirginiaEvening star, Washington, D.C., October 17, 1915, page 58
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LITTLE IN WAY OF UPSETS IN BIG FOOT BALL CONTESTS Harvard Fails to Cross Virginia Goal and Princeton Runs Up Big Score on Lafayette. GEORGETOWN Eleven Is Praised. there may have been many who expected the Brooklanders to win and are therefore disappointed. it was nevertheless a creditable performance | to take such a trip and play against a team Of veterans such as G.. U. faced and emerge with only one touchdown against it. AS a matter Of fact. PR means and that c. U. had the ball in wesleyan’s territory during ngg,, a greater part OF the l game. e. cas none thirty yards with the only forward pass it tried. while Wesleyan did not make good with one. Also the touch down registered by West Virginia was on the Brooklanders, and after that there was nothing doing” in the way Of crossing the goal The field goal was kicked in the last minute OF play. under the conditions was very credit able and about all that could have been expected. Georgetown simply swamped North left no room for doubt that it is one of the most powerful machines the south has had in many day. Pity 1t IS that Georgetown and Virginia are not playing this year, because 1t undoubt- | eddy would bring together two of the strongest elevens in the country. and | would be productive of some of the best foot ball Of the year. | Exendine has taught his backs to cover the man carrying the ball ex- | tremely we’ll, and they follow the in tePference like veterans. Besides that, the men are great Individual perform ers. Wall, Gilroy, Leighty and Demp- sey are great offensive players, while the quarterbacks are way above the average. The forwards are powerful, fast and capable In every particular. Coach Cunningham of Carolina after | the game said: “Georgetown has a great team. 1t is one of the best I have seen in a long while, and Is strong in every department” Jack Gates, former Yale player and Navy’s coach for three years, gave his opinion thus: Georgetown has the making of a great eleven. Some Of the men have much to learn, but they are coming, and before the end of the season the team is likely to be one of | the strongest” | Charley Cox. Graduate manager. said: II am satisfied with the team and the way 1t played” Coach Exendine had little to say. as | usual. When asked what he thought Of his team. he said: well, it’s i’m proving” | The Maryland Aggies won from Gal llaudet yesterday after two years of de- | feats. The Farmers lost last fall, and | today they won with much lighter | eleven. AS a matter of fact, the back field players who wore the Black and Old Gold were the lightest NJ A. c. has put on q foot ball fleld in ten years Both teams had a tendency to play | raggedly at times, but the game was good, considering the conditions under which 1t was played and that both
Public domain, from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through American Stories (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Bowls and playoff

Scoreboard

Jan 1, 1916

Washington State 14, Brown 0Rose Bowl