The 1915 Detroit Tigers football team was an

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team that represented the

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in the

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. In its first season under head coach

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, the team compiled a 1–5 record and was outscored by its opponents by a combined total of 207 to 18. In its schedule for the 1915 University of Detroit football team,

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erroneously included an undated game against Hutchinson Central High School from

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. However, the ''

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'' for October 17, 1915, at page 23, shows that the game against Hutchinson was played on October 16 at Elmwood Field by the "Detroit University School", a high school team in Detroit, not by the University of Detroit. In fact, the University of Detroit team played a game against

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on the same afternoon.

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