The 1918 Akron football team represented the University of Akron, formerly Buchtel College, in the

1918 college football season The 1918 college football season was a season of college football in the United States. There was no consensus champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Michigan and Pittsburgh as national champions. World War ...

. The team was led by head coach

Fred Sefton Frederick Stanley Sefton (August 7, 1888 – March 11, 1976) was an American college football, college basketball, and college baseball coach and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at the University of Akron for nine sea ...

, in his fourth season. Akron outscored their opponents by a total of 69–47. The season was shortened to just five games due to the outbreak of the worldwide influenza epidemic.

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