The 1919 Kendall Orange and Black football team represented
Henry Kendall College, which was renamed the University of Tulsa on 1920, during the
1919 college football season
The 1919 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing 1919 Centre Praying Colonels football team, Centre, 1919 Harvard Crimson football team, Harvard, 1919 Illinois Fightin ...
. In their first year under head coach
Francis Schmidt
Francis Albert Schmidt (December 3, 1885 – September 19, 1944) was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He served as the head football coach at the University of Tulsa (1919–1921), the University of Arka ...
, the Orange and Black compiled an 8–0–1 record, won the Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference championship, and outscored their opponents by a total of 591 to 27. The team opened the season with a 152–0 victory over and shut out five of nine opponents. Schmidt was later inducted into the
College Football Hall of Fame
The College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and interactive attraction devoted to college football. The National Football Foundation (NFF) founded the Hall in 1951 to immortalize the players and coaches of college football that were vote ...
.
Schedule
References
Kendall
Tulsa Golden Hurricane football seasons
Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference (1914–1928) football champion seasons
College football undefeated seasons
Kendall Orange and Black football
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