1918 Ohio State Buckeyes football team

1918 Ohio State Buckeyes football
ConferenceBig Ten Conference, Ohio Athletic Conference
Record3–3 (0–3 Big Ten, 3–0 OAC)
Head coach
Home stadiumOhio Field
Seasons
← 1917
1919 →
1918 Big Ten Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Michigan + 2 0 0 5 0 0
Illinois + 4 0 0 5 2 0
Purdue + 1 0 0 3 3 0
Iowa 2 1 0 6 2 1
Minnesota 2 1 0 5 2 1
Northwestern 1 1 0 2 2 1
Wisconsin 1 2 0 3 3 0
Indiana 0 0 0 2 2 0
Ohio State 0 3 0 3 3 0
Chicago 0 5 0 4 6 1
  • $ – Conference champion
1918 Ohio Athletic Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Wittenberg $ 3 0 0 4 0 0
Miami (OH) 4 0 1 5 0 1
Mount Union 5 1 0 6 1 0
Wooster 5 1 0 6 1 0
Western Reserve 5 1 0 5 2 0
Ohio 1 0 1 4 0 1
Cincinnati 0 0 2 3 0 2
Ohio Wesleyan 2 2 0 3 2 0
Case 2 3 2 3 5 2
Akron 1 2 1 2 2 1
Oberlin 1 4 0 1 4 0
Baldwin–Wallace 0 4 1 5 4 1
Kenyon 0 4 0 1 4 0
Ohio Northern 0 5 0 1 5 0
Denison 0 5 0 1 6 0
Ohio State * 3 0 0 3 3 0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • * – did not complete for championship

The 1918 Ohio State Buckeyes football team was an American football team that represented Ohio State University in the 1918 Big Ten Conference football season. In their sixth year under head coach John Wilce, the Buckeyes compiled a 3–3 record (0–3 against conference opponents) and outscored opponents by a combined total of 134 to 41.[1]

End Clarence A. MacDonald received first-team honors on the 1918 All-Big Ten Conference football team.[2][3]

With the country involved in World War I, many of the top football players did not play due to military service. Players serving in the military included Chic Harley and Gaylord Stinchcomb of Ohio State.[4][5]

In response to the Spanish flu pandemic, the football schedule was modified. The matchup with Northwestern was canceled while the game against Michigan was moved to the last game in November.[6]

  1. ^ "1918 Ohio State Buckeyes Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 8, 2015.
  2. ^ Walter Eckersall (December 8, 1918). "Eckersall Picks "All Star" Eleven of the Big Ten". Chicago Tribune. pp. 2–4 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  3. ^ ESPN Big Ten Football Encyclopedia. ESPN Books. 2007. p. 191. ISBN 978-1-933060-49-1.
  4. ^ "Chick Harley: Ohio's Great Halfback to Join the Army Flyers". The Fort Wayne Daily News. December 6, 1917. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  5. ^ "Stinchcomb Leaves Ohio". Lansing State Journal. May 2, 1918. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  6. ^ Kaufman, Joey (March 29, 2020). "Influenza outbreak put 1918 Ohio State football season in the shadows". The Columbus Dispatch. Retrieved March 29, 2020.