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1916 Ohio State Buckeyes football team

American college football season

Field	Value
year	1916
team	Ohio State Buckeyes
sport	football
conference	Western Conference
short_conf	Western
conference2	Ohio Athletic Conference
short_conf2	OAC
record	7–0
conf_record	4–0
conf2_record	3–0
head_coach	John Wilce
hc_year	4th
off_scheme	Heavy run
def_scheme	Multi
stadium	Ohio Field
champion	Western Conference champion
uniform	10sohiostuniform.png

The 1916 Ohio State Buckeyes football was an American football team that represented Ohio State University as a member of the Western Conference and the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) during the 1916 college football season. In their fourth year under head coach John Wilce, the Buckeyes compiled a perfect 7–0 record and outscored opponents 258 to 29. Ohio State was 4–0 Western Conference opponents, winning the conference championship, the first in school history.

Half of the team's points were tallied in a 128–0 victory over . The 128 points scored against Oberlin remains a single-game Ohio State record.

Halfback Chic Harley was a consensus first-team pick on the 1916 All-America college football team. Other notable players included end Charles Bolen, center Ferdinand Holtkamp, and tackle Bob Karch.

Schedule

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References

"1916 Ohio State Buckeyes Schedule and Results". Sports Reference LLC.
Park, Jack (2003). [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZyqCzRbRsbMC The Official Ohio State Football Encyclopedia], Sports Publishing LLC, p.694.
(2016). "Football Award Winners". National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
(October 15, 1916). "World's Record Is Established by Ohio State". Springfield Sunday News.
"Case Football 1916/17".

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