The 1938 Ottawa Braves football team was an

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team that represented

Ottawa University Ottawa University (OU) is a private Baptist university with its main campus in Ottawa, Kansas, a second residential campus in Surprise, Arizona, and adult campuses in the Kansas City, Phoenix and Milwaukee metropolitan areas. It was founded in ...

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, as a member of the

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(KCAC) during the

1938 college football season The 1938 college football season ended with the Horned Frogs of Texas Christian University (TCU) being named the nation's No. 1 team by 55 of the 77 voters in the final Associated Press writers' poll in early December. Tennessee was also chosen b ...

. In their third season under head coach Dick Godlove, the Braves compiled an 8–0 record (5–0 against conference opponents), won the KCAC championship, and outscored opponents by a total of 134 to 18. It was the first undefeated season in Ottawa football history, a feat later repeated in

1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Ja ...

1961 Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 ...

, and

1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndo ...

Schedule

Roster

* Lester Adams, tackle/end, 225 pounds * Elvis Berger, guard, 170 pounds * Roy Fitzpatrick, back, 170 pounds * Norman Gerhold, back, 175 pounds * Eugene Harding, end, 185 pounds * Leonard Hofstra, tackle, 225 pounds * Kenneth Hough, guard, 175 pounds * Bill Mattis, back, 175 pounds * Don Meek, back, 170 pounds * Lyman Morgan, back, 160 pounds * Phillip Palmer, back, 180 pounds * Jack Ramsey, back, 160 pounds * Walter Reames, tackle, 170 pounds * Oliver Smith, back, 165 pounds * Lyle Swetnam, end, 155 pounds * Lester Taylor, guard, 160 pounds * George Von Arb, end, 175 pounds

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Ottawa Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core ...

Ottawa Braves football seasons Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference football champion seasons College football undefeated seasons

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