1915 Oklahoma Sooners football team

1915 Oklahoma Sooners football
National champion (Billingsley)
SWC champion
ConferenceSouthwest Conference
Record10–0 (3–0 SWC)
Head coach
CaptainForest Geyer
Home stadiumBoyd Field
Seasons
← 1914
1916 →
1915 Southwest Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Oklahoma $ 3 0 0 10 0 0
Baylor 3 0 0 7 1 0
Texas 2 2 0 6 3 0
Texas A&M 1 1 0 6 2 0
Arkansas 1 1 0 4 2 1
Rice 1 2 0 5 3 0
Oklahoma A&M 0 3 0 4 5 1
Southwestern (TX) 0 2 0 4 3 0
  • Baylor forfeited claim to co-champion for using ineligible player.[1]

The 1915 Oklahoma Sooners football team was an American football team that represented the University of Oklahoma in the Southwest Conference during the 1915 college football season. In their 11th year under head coach Bennie Owen, the Sooners compiled a 10–0 record (3–0 against conference opponents), won the Southwest Conference championship, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 369 to 54.[2] This was the first season that the Sooners participated in the Southwest Conference.

There was no contemporaneous system in 1915 for determining a national champion. However, Oklahoma was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report using its alternate "margin of victory" methodology.[3]

Fullback Forest Geyer was recognized as an All-American.[4] Geyer was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1973.[5]

Six Sooners received All-Southwest Conference honors: Elmer Capshaw, Forest Geyer, Oliver Hot, Willis Hott, Hap Johnson, and Homer Montgomery.[6]

  1. ^ http://www.thompsonian.info/swc-historical-standings.pdf
  2. ^ "1915 Oklahoma Sooners Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  3. ^ 2020 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records (PDF). Indianapolis: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. July 2020. p. 112–114. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 1, 2020. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
  4. ^ "2014 Oklahoma Football Records Supplement" (PDF). University of Oklahoma. 2014. p. 90. Retrieved July 20, 2014.
  5. ^ "Forest Geyer". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  6. ^ "2014 Oklahoma Football Records Supplement" (PDF). University of Oklahoma. 2014. p. 95. Retrieved July 20, 2014.