1921 Idaho Vandals football team

1921 Idaho Vandals football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–3–1
Head coach
Home stadiumMacLean Field
Seasons
← 1920
1922 →
1921 Western college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
USC     10 1 0
Arizona     7 2 0
Santa Clara     6 0 0
Chico State     4 2 1
La Verne     4 2 1
Idaho     4 3 1
Nevada     4 3 1
Saint Mary's     4 3 0
Hawaii     3 3 2
Montana     3 3 1
Pacific (CA)     3 3 0
University Farm     3 4 0
New Mexico     2 2 0
New Mexico A&M     2 2 0
Gonzaga     2 4 1
Fresno State     2 4 0
San Jose State     1 5 0
Idaho vs. Camp Lewis soldiers at MacLean Field on October 8, 1921

The 1921 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1921 college football season. Idaho was led by second-year head coach Thomas Kelley in their last season as an independent before joining the Pacific Coast Conference.[1][2] The Vandals had two home games in Moscow, one on campus at MacLean Field and another at the fairgrounds;[3] they also played one in Boise at Public School Field.

Idaho dropped a seventh consecutive game to Washington State in the Battle of the Palouse, falling 3–20 at Rogers Field in Pullman.[4] Two years later, the Vandals won the first of three consecutive, their only three-peat in the rivalry series.

The Boise game against Wyoming on the third anniversary of Armistice Day was attended by Governor D. W. Davis.[5]

The following June, Kelley left for the University of Missouri.[2][6] and was succeeded at Idaho in 1922 by Robert "Matty" Mathews.

  1. ^ "Conference to handle east-west games in future; Idaho admitted". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. December 11, 1921. p. 1, sports.
  2. ^ a b "Kelley quits as coach of Idaho". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. June 9, 1922. p. 14.
  3. ^ "Oregon at W.S.C.; U. of M. at Idaho". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. November 5, 1921. p. 14.
  4. ^ "Cougar eleven claws Idahoans". Spokane Daily Chronicle. Washington. October 21, 1921. p. 14.
  5. ^ "Varsity's attack ruins Wyoming". University Argonaut. Moscow, Idaho. November 15, 1921. p. 1.
  6. ^ "Kelley quits as Idaho coach; will go to U. of Missouri". Spokane Daily Chronicle. Washington. June 8, 1922. p. 24.