The 1912 Massachusetts Aggies football team represented Massachusetts Agricultural College in the

1912 college football season The 1912 college football season was the first of the modern era, as the NCAA implemented changes to increase scoring: *Teams were given ''4 downs'' instead of ''3 downs'' to gain ten yards *The value of a touchdown was increased from ''5 points ...

. The team was coached by

Arthur Brides Arthur E. Brides (October 31, 1885 – September 26, 1937) was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1909 to 1910 and at Massachusetts Agricultural Colleg ...

and played its home games at Alumni Field in

Amherst, Massachusetts Amherst () is a New England town, town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Connecticut River valley. As of the 2020 census, the population was 39,263, making it the highest populated municipality in Hampshire County (althoug ...

. The 1912 season was Brides' first as head coach of the Aggies. Massachusetts finished the season with a record of 2–5–2.

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