1916 Rhode Island State Rams football team

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1916 Rhode Island State Rams football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–4–1
Head coach
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 Rhode Island State Rams football team was an American football team that represented Rhode Island State College (later renamed the University of Rhode Island) as an independent during the 1916 college football season. In its second year under head coach James A. Baldwin, the team compiled a 3–4–1 record.[1]

Schedule[edit]

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultSource
September 23Fort AdamsKingston, RIW 69–0
September 30at Brown
L 0–18[2]
October 7at WesleyanMiddletown, CTT 3–3[3]
October 14at MaineOrono, MEW 13–0[4]
October 21at ColgateHamilton, NYL 0–33[5]
October 28ConnecticutKingston, RI (rivalry)W 13–6
November 42:30 p.m.at Boston College
  • Alumni Field
  • Chestnut Hill, MA
L 0–39[6][7]
November 18at New HampshireKingston, RIL 0–12

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Rhode Island Football Record Book" (PDF). University of Rhode Island. 2020. p. 11.
  2. ^ "Brown 18, R I State 0". The Boston Globe. October 1, 1916. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Rhode Island and Wesleyan in Draw". The Hartford Courant. October 8, 1916. p. Sports 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Rhode Island Beat Maine 13-0". The Bangor Daily News. October 16, 1916. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Colgate Mows Down Rhode Island State". The Sun. October 22, 1916. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Boston College Ready For Rhode Island State". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 4, 1916. p. 7. Retrieved May 30, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. ^ "Boston College 39, Rhode Island 0". The Boston Globe. November 5, 1916. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.