1926 Kent State Silver Foxes football team

1926 Kent State Silver Foxes football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–6
Head coach
CaptainDonald Menough
Home stadiumRockwell Field
Seasons
← 1925
1927 →
1926 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Haskell     12 0 1
No. 3 Notre Dame     9 1 0
Western State Normal (MI)     7 1 0
Michigan State Normal     6 1 0
Muncie Normal     5 1 1
Northern Illinois State     5 1 1
Marquette     6 3 0
Lombard     5 3 0
Loyola (IL)     4 3 0
Central Michigan     3 4 1
Michigan State     3 4 1
Detroit     3 6 1
Butler     3 6 0
Saint Louis     3 6 0
John Carroll     2 5 1
Kent State     2 6 0
Valparaiso     1 4 1
Michigan Mines     0 2 1
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1926 Kent State Silver Foxes football team represented Kent State during the 1926 college football season. In its second season under head coach Merle E. Wagoner, Kent State compiled a 2–6 record and was outscored by a total of 176 to 35.[1]

In the final game of the season, the Silver Foxes gave up two first-quarter touchdowns to Wilmington College. Kent State came back with touchdowns by Searle and Schwartz, but the extra points were missed and the Silver Foxes trailed, 14-12. With one minute remaining in the game, Joe DeLeone drop-kicked the game-winning field goal. Kent State won by a 15-14 score.[2]

  1. ^ "2016 Kent State Football Record Book" (PDF). Kent State University. p. D5. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference CB27 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).