1923 Kent State Silver Foxes football team

American college football season August 2023 February 2026 1923 Kent State Silver Foxes football 1923 Kent State Silver Foxes football team.png 150px Independent 0–5 Frank Harsh 1st Rockwell Field The 1923 Kent State Silver Foxes football team represented Kent State during the 1923 college football season. In its first season under head coach Frank Harsh, the team compiled a 0–5 record, but did score the first touchdown in program history.2016 Kent State Football Record Book Kent State University D5 June 26, 2020 http://kentstatesports.com/documents/2016/9/2/FALL_ASRB_football_2016.pdf Harsh was both coach of the football team and the school's director of athletics.1925 The Chestnut Burr, p. 26. The Chestnut Burr for 1924 summarized the 1923 football season as follows:Victory is not essential to success! . . . This is by way of introducing the 1923 football season at Kent State, the record of which shows no victories, but a season which may well be considered the most successful in school history. There are many reasons why Kent State was not victorious on the gridiron during the past year. The squad was small and without experience. The starting of school one month later than usual prevented the all-important conditioning period. The team that was coached to start the season was early riddled by injuries and withdrawals. Light and inexperienced, the Blue and Gold was forced to meet on the gridiron some of the most formidable elevens in the Ohio Conference. Please don't misinterpret: this is not written as a defense — the 1923 Kent State football team needs no defense. Whatever may have been Coach Harsh's contributions in his first year at the helm of Kent State football, there is no gainsaying that the greatest was "FIGHT." Bruised, battered and beaten, Kent State's gallant warriors of the moleskin never relinquished that "FIGHT" and they were battling in the last minute of the last game with a spirit that augurs nothing but victory in the future. The Silver Foxes of 1923 gave to their school its first touchdown, but they also gave something infinitely more than that. They created a fighting spirit that will live — an undying determination that will make the football record at Kent State in the future a thing of joy. All hail the season of 1923 which witnessed the birth of an unconquerable spirit! Honor the players of 1923 and enshrine them in memory's treasure-house!1924 The Chestnut Burr Students of Kent State Normal College 1924 123 https://www.library.kent.edu/burr/1924 Schedule y October 6 at Akron Akron, OH (rivalry) L 0-32 October 13 at 1923 Baldwin Wallace Yellow Jackets Baldwin–Wallace Berea, OH L 0-118 1923 West Liberty Hilltoppers West Liberty Kent, OH L 6-7 November 1 1923 Slippery Rock Slippery Rock Kent, OH L 0-82 November 10 at 1923 Indiana Indians Indiana (PA) Indiana, PA L 0-21 References Kent State Category:Kent State Golden Flashes football seasons Kent State Golden Flashes football Category:College football winless seasons