1929 Kent State Golden Flashes football
ConferenceIndependent
Record1–7
Head coach
Home stadiumRockwell Field, Bowers Field
Seasons
← 1928
1930 →
1929 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 1 Notre Dame   –   9 – 0 – 0
Detroit   –   7 – 1 – 1
Haskell   –   8 – 2 – 0
Loyola (IL)   –   5 – 2 – 1
Michigan State   –   5 – 3 – 0
John Carroll   –   5 – 3 – 1
Marquette   –   4 – 3 – 1
Butler   –   4 – 4 – 0
Wabash   –   4 – 5 – 0
Saint Louis   –   3 – 4 – 1
DePaul   –   2 – 7 – 0
Kent State   –   1 – 7 – 0
Valparaiso   –   1 – 7 – 0
Ball State   –   0 – 7 – 0
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1929 Kent State Golden Flashes football team represented Kent State during the 1929 college football season. In its fifth season under head coach Merle E. Wagoner, Kent State compiled a 1–7 record and was outscored by a total of 162 to 20.[1]

The Chestnut Burr called the 1929 season a "building year" noting that most of the team would return for the 1930 season when Kent State would be a member of the Ohio Conference.[2] The same publication also noted that the team's playing all but two of its games on the road, for the second straight year, was a "very regrettable feature" that put a burden on the team and deprived them of the support of the student body. The Chestnut Burr noted that the lack of home games was the result of "the lack of a suitable playing field" and called for the situation to be "remedied at once for the benefit of the entire school."[2] The two home games Kent State did play were both played at Bowers Field, the home football stadium for Theodore Roosevelt High School. Kent State had used Bowers Field for their final home game in 1928, and played there again for one game in 1930 and one game in 1938.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28at OberlinOberlin, OHL 0–19[3]
October 5at Akron
L 0–25[4]
October 12at HeidelbergTiffin, OHL 2–25[5]
October 19at KenyonGambier, OHL 15–21[6]
October 25at John CarrollCleveland, OHL 0–32[7]
November 11Rio Grande
W 3–04,500[8][9]
November 16Baldwin-Wallace
  • Bowers Field
  • Kent, OH
L 0–18[10][11]
November 23at Indiana (PA)Indiana, PAL 0–21

Roster

The roster of the 1929 Kent State football team included the following:[2]

References

  1. ^ "2016 Kent State Football Record Book" (PDF). Kent State University. p. D5. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c 1930 The Chestnut Burr. Students of Kent State College. 1930. pp. 146–149.
  3. ^ "Oberlin 19, Kent State 0". The Cincinnati Enquirer. September 29, 1929. p. 33 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Akron 25, Kent 0". The Cincinnati Enquirer. October 6, 1929. p. 34 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Princes Tumble Baldwin [sic]". The Lima News. October 13, 1929. p. 23 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Kenyon Trims Kent". The Coshocton Tribune. October 20, 1929. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "John Carroll 32, Kent 0". The Cincinnati Enquirer. October 26, 1929. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Kent Flashes Win At Last: Defeat Rio Grande By 13-0 Score in Armistice Day Feature Monday". The Akron Beacon Journal. November 12, 1929. p. 32 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Flashes Meet Stong B-W Team Tomorrow". Daily Kent Stater. November 15, 1929. p. 4. Retrieved December 4, 2023 – via Daily Kent Stater Digital Archive.
  10. ^ "Kent State Walloped by Baldwin Wallace". The Mansfield News. November 17, 1929. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Past Football Season Was Tough For Kent". Daily Kent Stater. December 6, 1929. p. 4. Retrieved December 4, 2023 – via Daily Kent Stater Digital Archive.
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