1916 Wisconsin

4–⁠2–⁠1 (1–⁠2–⁠1 Western Conference), coached by Paul Withington. Share

Schedule and results

Biggest winBeat South Dakota State 28–⁠3Oct 14
By 25 points, its widest win.

Each game’s margin, wins above the line and losses below.

Date	Opponent	Result
Oct 7	vsLawrence	W 20–⁠0	90%
Oct 14	vsSouth Dakota State	W 28–⁠3	94%
Oct 21	vsHaskell	W 13–⁠0	69%
Oct 28	vsChicago	W 30–⁠7	66%
Nov 4	atOhio State	L 13–⁠14	51%
Nov 18	atMinnesota	L 0–⁠54	33%
Nov 25	vsIllinois	T 0–⁠0	51%

Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.

How it ended: Tied Illinois 0–⁠0; 6th in the Western Conference.

In program history: The 76th-best season in program history by end-of-season Elo (of 135 on file).

Photographs from 1916

UW vs. Chicago football gamePhoto: University of Wisconsin Digital Collections, No Copyright – United States, via Digital Public Library of America
The game
UW vs. Chicago football gamePhoto: University of Wisconsin Digital Collections, No Copyright – United States, via Digital Public Library of America
The game
UW vs. Chicago football gamePhoto: University of Wisconsin Digital Collections, No Copyright – United States, via Digital Public Library of America
The game
UW vs. Chicago football gamePhoto: University of Wisconsin Digital Collections, No Copyright – United States, via Digital Public Library of America
The game
UW vs. Chicago football gamePhoto: University of Wisconsin Digital Collections, No Copyright – United States, via Digital Public Library of America
The game
UW vs. Chicago football gamePhoto: University of Wisconsin Digital Collections, No Copyright – United States, via Digital Public Library of America
The game

Photographs from libraries and archives found through the Digital Public Library of America, each under the rights statement its holder gives (no copyright in the United States, public domain or Creative Commons) and credited to it. Captions as each collection catalogues them.

Record: 4–⁠2–⁠1
Conference: 1–⁠2–⁠1 6th in Western Conference
AP poll: Began in 1936
Points: 104–⁠78
Coach: Paul Withington
Elo: 1537 +11 this season
SP+ rating: —
SRS: 9.7 No. 32 of 90 major-college teams
Recruiting class: —

Captain: Paul Meyers

All-Western Conference

1 first team, 2 second team

First team

Paul MeyersEWE-1

Second team

Charles CarpenterCWE-2
Eber SimpsonRBAX-2; IV-2

From Wikipedia’s 1916 all-conference team article, with the selectors that named each player (AP-1: the Associated Press’s first team).

1916 Western Conference standings

Team	Conf.	Overall
Ohio State	4–⁠0	7–⁠0
Northwestern	4–⁠1	6–⁠1
Minnesota	3–⁠1	6–⁠1
Chicago	3–⁠3	3–⁠4
Illinois	2–⁠2–⁠1	3–⁠3–⁠1
Wisconsin	1–⁠2–⁠1	4–⁠2–⁠1
Iowa	1–⁠2	4–⁠3
Indiana	0–⁠3–⁠1	2–⁠4–⁠1
Purdue	0–⁠4–⁠1	2–⁠4–⁠1

Ordered by conference winning percentage, then conference wins. Division splits and tiebreakers aren’t applied.