The 1914 Tempe Normal Owls football team was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

team that represented Tempe Normal School (later renamed

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) as an independent during the

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. In their first season under head coach

George Schaeffer George Harrison Schaeffer was an American football player, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Tempe Normal School, now Arizona State University, from 1914 to ...

, the Owls compiled a 4–3 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 143 to 97. The team's games included a 34–0 loss in the

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. Gordon Johnston was the team captain.

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