The 1915 Idaho football team represented the
University of Idaho
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in the
1915 college football season
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. Idaho was led by first-year head coach
Charles Rademacher and played as an independent; they joined the
Pacific Coast Conference seven years later Idaho had two home games in
Moscow
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on campus at
MacLean Field
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, with none in
Boise
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.
In the season opener, Idaho fell to
Montana
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for the first time in the series' third meeting, losing Idaho dropped a second consecutive shutout to
Washington State
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in the
Battle of the Palouse
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The two land-grant universities are less than apart on the ...
, falling
Eight years later, the Vandals won the first of three consecutive, their only
three-peat
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in the rivalry series.
Idaho opened the season with four losses, then won and tied a game for a record. They scored just nine points all season, and the only touchdown was an interception return, which defeated .
Their only points on offense came on a
drop-kick
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Drop kicks are used as a method of restarting play and scoring points in rugby union and rugby leagu ...
field goal in the first quarter of the opener at Montana.
[
A fatality occurred at practice on October 6; a part-time player, Chauncey Lyman of ]Idaho Falls
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, was knocked unconscious after his head impacted a ball carrier's thigh. Lyman died about an hour later, and the cause of death was a basilar
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