1915 Guilford Quakers football team

The 1915 Guilford Quakers football team represented Guilford College as an independent during the 1915 college football season. The team was coached by Professor William E. Moore, an English teacher who started work at the school that same year.[1][2]

1915 Guilford Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record1–1
Head coach
Seasons
← 1904
1916 →
1915 Southern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Georgia Tech     7 0 1
Ouachita Baptist     7 1 0
Dallas     6 1 0
Spring Hill     6 1 0
North Texas State Normal     5 1 1
Sam Houston Normal     5 1 1
West Virginia     5 1 1
Jonesboro Aggies     4 1 1
Johns Hopkins     6 2 0
VMI     6 2 1
Southwestern Louisiana Industrial     5 2 1
Delaware     6 3 0
Maryland     6 3 0
Louisiana Normal College     4 2 0
Southwest Texas State     5 3 2
Davidson     4 3 1
Mississippi Normal     4 3 0
West Tennessee State Normal     4 3 0
Guilford     1 1 0
Middle Tennessee State Normal     3 3 1
Presbyterian     4 4 0
Henderson-Brown     3 4 1
TCU     4 5 0
Wake Forest     3 4 0
Navy     3 5 1
Western Kentucky State Normal     1 4 2
Louisville     1 5 1
Marshall     1 7 0

The short schedule of non-collegiate games was seen as an exciting first step back towards intercollegiate athletics at Guilford, which had not fielded such a football team since 1904. Despite this, the season has been largely overlooked by even contemporary sportswriters of the time, who focused more on the fact that Guilford's 1917 season was their first season of full intercollegiate play, with a summary of recent football in the 1918 yearbook The Quaker[3] failing to even mention the season; the season was similarly ignored in a 1917 article chronicling the close of their season, which noted that the team competed "on the gridiron for the first time in 13 years".[4]

The team was organized on October 1, 1915, fairly late in the season; by this time, most collegiate teams had already organized and planned their schedule for the year. Combined with their lack of a recent team, the short and informal schedule makes sense.[5]

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 30North Carolina freshmenGreensboro, NCL 12–13[6]
November 25High Point IndependentsGreensboro, NCW 37–0[7][8]

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References

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  1. ^ "Guilford To Open Her Football Season Today". Greensboro Daily News. October 23, 1915. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
  2. ^ The Quaker. 1916. p. 32. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
  3. ^ "The Quaker". North Carolina Yearbooks: 57. 1918.
  4. ^ "Guilford Made Good On Football Return". Greensboro Daily News. December 9, 1917. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
  5. ^ "Quakers Enter Football Arena This Season". The Charlotte News. October 1, 1915. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
  6. ^ "Guilford Has First Football Since 1904". The Farmer and Mechanic. November 2, 1904. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
  7. ^ "High Point Plays Guilford College". High Point Enterprise. November 25, 1915. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
  8. ^ "High Point Easy For Collegians". High Point Enterprise. November 26, 1915. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
  9. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 8, 2022. Retrieved May 22, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)