The 1915 Washington State football team represented

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during the

1915 college football season The 1915 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Cornell, Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Pittsburgh as having been selected national champions in later years. Only Cornel ...

as an independent. The offense scored 204 points while the defense allowed only ten points, with five shutouts. Led by head coach William Dietz, the team won all seven games, including the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day in Pasadena, California. For the first of two consecutive years, Washington State did not play in-state

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. In 2014,

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Resolution 8715 recognized the 1915 Washington State College football team as

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. The resolution on the team's 99th anniversary was sponsored by State Senator Michael Baumgartner, an alumni of WSU. The senate resolution was adopted with WSU head football coach Mike Leach in attendance.

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Official Rose Bowl game program: W.S.C. vs. Brown
– January 1, 1916

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