1925 Kent State Silver Foxes football team

1925 Kent State Silver Foxes football
ConferenceIndependent
Record1–1–3
Head coach
CaptainGus Peterka
Home stadiumRockwell Field
Seasons
← 1924
1926 →
1925 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Northern Illinois State     6 1 0
Dayton     7 2 0
Marquette     7 2 0
Notre Dame     7 2 1
Haskell     9 3 1
Western State Normal (MI)     6 2 1
Loyola (IL)     6 2 0
Central Michigan     4 1 3
Adrian     6 3 0
Butler     5 2 2
Michigan Mines     2 1 0
Detroit City College     4 3 1
Detroit     5 4 0
Assumption (ON)     3 3 1
Kent State     1 1 3
Michigan State     3 5 0
Muncie Normal     2 5 0
John Carroll     2 6 1
Saint Louis     2 6 1
Valparaiso     1 6 0

The 1925 Kent State Silver Foxes football team represented Kent State during the 1925 college football season.[1] In its first season under head coach Merle E. Wagoner, Kent State compiled a 1–1–3 record and was outscored by a total of 24 to 13. On November 14, 1925, the team won the program's first victory on the field, defeating West Liberty by a 7-6 score. (The program's only prior victory was by default in 1920.)[2]

The Chestnut Burr for 1926 summarized the 1925 football season as follows:

Athletics at Kent State were in an unusually depressed condition when Coach Merle Wagoner and Director Frank L. Oktavec came to take charge in the fall of '25. The college had lost 37 consecutive games scoring only one touchdown in all these games. Although Kent won but one game she can boast of going through a whole season with but one defeat. The success of this season cannot be attributed to any one player but we do owe Coach Wagoner much praise for the success of the past season. His general good spirits and his contagious enthusiasm have already won for him the respect of the college men and there is no doubt but what his success for another season will prove just as successful.[3]

  1. ^ "Kent State Ready for Grid Season". The Daily Times. September 30, 1925 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "2016 Kent State Football Record Book" (PDF). Kent State University. p. D5. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
  3. ^ 1926 The Chestnut Burr. Students of Kent State College. 1926. p. 105.