1915 Pittsburgh Panthers football team


The 1915 Pittsburgh Panthers football team represented the University of Pittsburgh in the 1915 college football season. In his first season with the program, head coach Pop Warner led the Panthers to wins in all eight games and they outscored their opponents by a combined total Home games were held at Forbes Field, the ballpark of baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates.

Season

Pitt athletic booster Joseph Trees and athletic director A. R. Hamilton hired Pop Warner in 1914 as Pitt's head coach. Warner, who had previously led Carlisle, Cornell, and Georgia, had been successful at his previous stops, mentoring the likes of Jim Thorpe, and was known as an innovator of the game who originated the screen pass, single- and double-wing formations, and use of shoulder and thigh pads. His arrival at Pitt gave the program instant national credibility, lifting the perception of the program from a regional power to that of a national one.
Warner's impact was immediate. Led by center Robert Peck, Pitt's first First Team All-American, and All-American end James Pat Herron, the 1915 Pitt team went shutting out five opponents and outscoring opponents by a combined The team was selected by football historian Parke H. Davis as that season's co-national champion, along with Cornell.

Schedule

List of national championship selectors

The 1915 team was selected or recognized as national champions by multiple selectors, of which Parke H. Davis's selection is recognized as "major" by the official NCAA football records book. College Football Data Warehouse also recognizes Pitt as a national champion in 1915.
The selectors that determined Pitt to be national champions in 1915.
* A "major" selector that was "national in scope" according to the official NCAA football records book.

All-American selections