1915 Guilford Quakers football team

American college football season February 2026 August 2023 1915 Guilford Quakers football Independent 1–1 William E. Moore 1st 1904 The 1915 Guilford Quakers football team represented Guilford College as an independent during the 1915 college football season. The team was coached by Professor William E. Moore, an English teacher who started work at the school that same year.Guilford To Open Her Football Season Today https://www.newspapers.com/image/73538863/?terms=football%20guilford&match=1 9 August 2022 Greensboro Daily News 23 October 1915The Quaker 1916 32 https://lib.digitalnc.org/record/28165?ln=en#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=37&r=0&xywh=935%2C1071%2C1248%2C758 9 August 2022 The short schedule of non-collegiate games was seen as an exciting first step back towards intercollegiate athletics at Guilford, which had not fielded such a football team since 1904. Despite this, the season has been largely overlooked by even contemporary sportswriters of the time, who focused more on the fact that Guilford's 1917 season was their first season of full intercollegiate play, with a summary of recent football in the 1918 yearbook The QuakerThe Quaker North Carolina Yearbooks 1918 57 https://lib.digitalnc.org/record/28159?ln=en#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=62&r=0&xywh=1858%2C529%2C2588%2C1572 failing to even mention the season; the season was similarly ignored in a 1917 article chronicling the close of their season, which noted that the team competed "on the gridiron for the first time in 13 years".Guilford Made Good On Football Return https://www.newspapers.com/image/74213321/?terms=%22guilford%20college%22%20football&match=1 9 August 2022 Greensboro Daily News December 9, 1917 The team was organized on October 1, 1915, fairly late in the season; by this time, most collegiate teams had already organized and planned their schedule for the year. Combined with their lack of a recent team, the short and informal schedule makes sense.Quakers Enter Football Arena This Season https://www.newspapers.com/image/61498606/?terms=football%20guilford&match=1 9 August 2022 The Charlotte News 1 October 1915 Schedule y October 30 North Carolina freshmen Greensboro, NC L 12-13 Guilford Has First Football Since 1904 https://www.newspapers.com/image/60435019/?terms=football%20guilford&match=1 9 August 2022 The Farmer and Mechanic 2 November 1904 November 25 High Point Independents Greensboro, NC W 37-0 High Point Plays Guilford College https://www.newspapers.com/image/74249034/?terms=football%20%22high%20point%22%20guilford&match=1 9 August 2022 High Point Enterprise 25 November 1915High Point Easy For Collegians https://www.newspapers.com/image/74249042/?terms=football%20%22high%20point%22%20guilford&match=1 9 August 2022 High Point Enterprise 26 November 1915 https://guilfordquakers.com/sports/fball/Records/FB_Game-by-Game.pdf Archived copy 2020-05-22 2022-08-08 https://web.archive.org/web/20220808190905/https://d2o2figo6ddd0g.cloudfront.net/u/e/lkp4m8hip1flxd/FB_Game-by-Game.pdf dead References Guilford Category:Guilford Quakers football seasons Guilford Quakers football