1916 Ohio State Buckeyes football team

The 1916 Ohio State Buckeyes football was an American football team that represented Ohio State University as a member of the Western Conference and the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) during the 1916 college football season. In their fourth year under head coach John Wilce, the Buckeyes compiled a perfect 7–0 record and outscored opponents 258 to 29. Ohio State was 4–0 Western Conference opponents, winning the conference championship, the first in school history.[1]

1916 Ohio State Buckeyes football
Western Conference champion
ConferenceWestern Conference, Ohio Athletic Conference
Record7–0 (4–0 Western, 3–0 OAC)
Head coach
Offensive schemeHeavy run
Base defenseMulti
Home stadiumOhio Field
Uniform
Seasons
← 1915
1917 →
1916 Western Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Ohio State $ 4 0 0 7 0 0
Northwestern 4 1 0 6 1 0
Minnesota 3 1 0 6 1 0
Chicago 3 3 0 3 4 0
Illinois 2 2 1 3 3 1
Wisconsin 1 2 1 4 2 1
Iowa 1 2 0 4 3 0
Indiana 0 3 1 2 4 1
Purdue 0 4 1 2 4 1
  • $ – Conference champion
1916 Ohio Athletic Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Miami (OH) $ 6 0 1 7 0 1
Mount Union 6 1 0 8 2 0
Denison 5 0 2 5 1 2
Ohio 4 1 1 5 2 1
Wooster 5 2 0 6 2 0
Case 4 3 0 5 5 0
Ohio Wesleyan 2 2 2 2 3 2
Western Reserve 3 4 0 3 7 0
Akron 2 4 0 2 7 0
Ohio Northern 2 5 0 3 7 0
Kenyon 2 5 0 2 7 0
Wittenberg 0 5 1 2 5 2
Cincinnati 0 6 1 0 8 2
Baldwin–Wallace 0 1 0 0 2 0
Oberlin 0 5 0 0 7 0
Ohio State * 3 0 0 7 0 0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • * – did not complete for championship
Ohio State scoring a touchdown against Case, while playing at Van Horn Field in University Circle, Cleveland.

Half of the team's points were tallied in a 128–0 victory over Oberlin. The 128 points scored against Oberlin remains a single-game Ohio State record.[2]

Halfback Chic Harley was a consensus first-team pick on the 1916 All-America college football team.[3] Other notable players included end Charles Bolen, center Ferdinand Holtkamp, and tackle Bob Karch.

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 7Ohio WesleyanW 12–0
October 14Oberlin
  • Ohio Field
  • Columbus, OH
W 128–0[4]
October 21at IllinoisW 7–6
November 4Wisconsin
  • Ohio Field
  • Columbus, OH
W 14-13
November 11Indiana
  • Ohio Field
  • Columbus, OH
W 46–7
November 18at Case
W 28–0
November 25Northwestern
  • Ohio Field
  • Columbus, OH
W 23–3

References

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  1. ^ "1916 Ohio State Buckeyes Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 11, 2022.
  2. ^ Park, Jack (2003). The Official Ohio State Football Encyclopedia, Sports Publishing LLC, p.694.
  3. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  4. ^ "World's Record Is Established by Ohio State". Springfield Sunday News. October 15, 1916 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Case Football 1916/17".