1916 Brown Bears football team

1916 Brown Bears football
Fritz Pollard running during the Harvard-Brown football game of 1916
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–1
Head coach
Home stadiumAndrews Field
Seasons
← 1915
1917 →
1916 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Army     9 0 0
Pittsburgh     8 0 0
Brown     8 1 0
Colgate     8 1 0
Yale     8 1 0
Fordham     6 1 1
Swarthmore     6 1 1
Penn State     8 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     8 2 0
Boston College     6 2 0
Cornell     6 2 0
Princeton     6 2 0
Lehigh     6 2 1
Dartmouth     5 2 2
Harvard     7 3 0
Penn     7 3 1
Temple     3 1 2
Tufts     5 3 0
Carnegie Tech     4 3 0
Rutgers     3 2 2
NYU     4 3 1
Syracuse     5 4 0
Holy Cross     4 5 0
Vermont     4 5 0
Rhode Island State     3 4 1
Geneva     2 5 2
Carlisle     1 3 1
Lafayette     2 6 1
Bucknell     3 9 0
Columbia     1 5 2
Franklin & Marshall     1 7 0
Villanova     1 8 0

The 1916 Brown Bears football team was an American football team that represented Brown University as an independent during the 1916 college football season. In its 15th season under head coach Edward N. Robinson, Brown compiled an 8–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 254 to 27. The team played its home games at Andrews Field in Providence, Rhode Island.

The standout player of the season was Fritz Pollard, who scored 12 touchdowns, and became the first African-American backfield player to be named to Walter Camp's College Football All-America Team.[1]

  1. ^ Blackstock, Joe (December 24, 2018). "Rose Bowl Game: Trailblazer Fritz Pollard made history in Pasadena". Pasadena, California: Pasadena Star News. Archived from the original on November 2, 2023. Retrieved November 2, 2023.