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Encyclopedia > Washington State Cougars football
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Washington State Cougars football
Head coach Bill 'the small penis' Doba
4th year, 25–19
Home stadium Martin Stadium
Capacity 35,117 - FieldTurf
Conference Pac-10
First year 1893
Website WSUCougars.com
Team records
All-time record 480–461–45 (.510)
Postseason bowl record 6–4–1
Awards
Wire national titles 0
Conference titles 4
Pageantry
Colors Crimson and Gray            
Mascot Butch T. Cougar
Rivals Washington Huskies
Idaho Vandals
Oregon Ducks

The Washington State Cougars football team is the interscholastic football team of the Washington State University. The team is a member of the Pacific Ten Conference. Image File history File links Soccerball_current_event. ... The 2007 Washington State Cougars football team are expected to represent Washington State University in the college football season of 2007-2008. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Martin Stadium is the primary field of Washington State Universitys Cougar football team. ... The wide plain of FieldTurf used at Torontos Rogers Centre was installed after the 2004 baseball season. ... The Pacific Ten Conference (Pac-10) is a college athletic conference which operates in the western United States. ... Crimson is a strong, bright deep red color combined with some blue, resulting in a slight degree of purple. ... Gray or grey is a color seen commonly in nature. ... College Football has a long and storied history at the University of Washington. ... The University of Idaho is the states land-grant and primary research university, located in the city of Moscow in Latah County. ... The University of Oregon Ducks football team is the best in the Pacific Ten Conference. ... Washington State University (WSU) is a major public research university in Pullman, Washington. ... The Pacific Ten Conference (Pac-10) is a college athletic conference which operates in the western United States. ...


Historically, the team has been considered one of the worst in the Pac-10, with a low winning percentage, only four Rose Bowl Game appearances (two of which were in the last 10 years), and no official National Championships. Recently, the Cougars have become more successful, with three 10-win seasons and three bowl appearances in the past six years. This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... The Rose Bowl is an annual American college football bowl game, usually played on January 1 (New Years Day) at the stadium of the same name in Pasadena, California. ...


The Cougars play at Martin Stadium, which has the lowest capacity of any Pac-10 stadium at 35,117. The current head coach is Bill Doba. Martin Stadium is the primary field of Washington State Universitys Cougar football team. ... Bill Doba, head football coach at Washington State University Bill Doba is the head football coach at Washington State University. ...

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1915 National Championship

Recently there has been a case made about Washington State's claim to the 1915 National Championship. The legendary Washington State Warriors that won the 1915 Rose Bowl finishing 10-0 and outscored its opponents 204-10 was in fact one of four teams that went undefeated that year, the other three being Cornell University (currently recognized as the 1915 champions), the University of Pittsburgh, and rival University of Washington, since the two did not play that year, as Washington State refused to play UW. In 1915 Washington State College was awarded the opportunity to play in Rose Bowl and was set to play Brown University, which had lost only one game, to Harvard University (who in turn lost to Cornell 10-0) by a score of 16-7. Cornell and Pitt at that time were busy bickering over where the site of their football game would take place and eventually the season had come to an end before a decision could be made. Washington State wound up beating Brown in the Rose Bowl 14-0 which garnered huge headlines around the country at that time. However a 1915 national championship was never awarded until 1935 when a Princeton University graduate submitted the first national polling of that season, quite disputed because in previous seasons he claimed that Princeton had won 22 National championships before 1933. However, the poll was acknowledged and Cornell was given the championship twenty years after the 1915 season. Recently, experts have come up with evidence that could include Washington State in that circle of National Champions. One example is that a comparison of points scored between teams Washington State played and teams Cornell played (some of which played each other in the postseason) actually favors Washington State. Another was that while Cornell and Pittsburgh never actually played a postseason game, Washington State did in fact play a powerhouse East Coast team and defeated them soundly. If the claim is acknowledged by the University and/or the media, Washington State will not only have received its first National championship, but will have become the first team to have won the National Championship and the Rose Bowl in the same year.[1] “Cornell” redirects here. ... The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a state-related, doctoral/research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. ... The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. ... Brown University is a private university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. ... Regional definitions vary from source to source. ...

  • also it has been noted by most pac ten fans and coaches to consist mostly of losers with small penises

Chronology of Washington State Head Coaches

Tenure Coach Years Record Pct.
1909 W.S. Keinholz 1 4-1-0 .800
1910-11 Oscar Osthoff 2 5-6-0 .454
1915-17 William Dietz 3 17-2-1 .875
1918 Emory Alvord 1 1-1-0 .500
1919-22 Gus Welch 4 16-10-1 .611
1923-25 Al Exendine 3 6-13-4 .348
1926-42 O.E. Hollingberry 17 93-53-14 .625
1945-49 Phil Sarboe 5 17-26-3 .402
1950-51 Forest Evashevski 2 11-6-2 .632
1952-55 Al Kircher 4 13-25-2 .350
1956-63 Jim Sutherland 8 37-39-4 .488
1964-67 Bert Clark 4 15-24-1 .388
1968-75 Jim Sweeney 8 26-59-1 .308
1976 Jackie Sherrill 1 3-8-0 .273
1977 Warren Powers 1 6-5-0 .545
1978-86 Jim Walden 1 44-52-4 .460
1987-88 Dennis Erickson 2 12-10-1 .543
1989-2002 Mike Price 14 83-78-0 .516
2003- Bill Doba 4 26-17-0 .605
Totals 19 coaches 91 seasons 480-461-45 .510

Bowl Games

Washington State has made 10 bowl appearances, and has a bowl record of 6-4. The Cougars have played in the Rose Bowl (1 win, 3 losses), the Holiday Bowl (1 win, 1 loss), the Aloha Bowl (1 win), the Copper Bowl (1 win), the Alamo Bowl (1 win), and the Sun Bowl (1 win).[1] Wikipedia has several articles about people named William Dietz: William C. Dietz, science fiction author. ... Forest Evashevski (born February 19, 1918 in Detroit, Michigan) was a college football player at the University of Michigan and a college football coach and athletic director at the University of Iowa. ... Jim Sweeney (left) and comedy partner Steve Steen (right) Jim Sweeney is a British comedian, writer and actor. ... Jackie Sherrill (born November 28, 1943, in Duncan, Oklahoma) is a former college football head coach. ... Warren Powers was the head coach of the Missouri Tigers football program from 1978 to 1984. ... Jim Walden (born ca. ... Dennis Erickson (born March 24, 1947, in Everett, Washington) is the head coach of the Arizona State Sun Devils football team. ... Mike Price (born 1946) is an American football coach, currently the head coach at the University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP). ... Bill Doba, head football coach at Washington State University Bill Doba is the head football coach at Washington State University. ... The Rose Bowl is an annual American college football bowl game, usually played on January 1 (New Years Day) at the stadium of the same name in Pasadena, California. ... The Holiday Bowl is a post-season NCAA-sanctioned Division I-A college football bowl game that has been played annually at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California, since 1978. ... The Aloha Classic is a now_defunct National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I_A college football bowl game played in Honolulu, Hawaii at Aloha Stadium. ... The Insight Bowl is an NCAA-sanctioned Division I-A post-season college American football bowl game played in Arizona since 1989. ... The Alamo Bowl is a major American college football bowl game played annually since 1993 in the 65,000-seat Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. ... The Brut Sun Bowl is an annual college football bowl game that is played usually at the end of December in El Paso, Texas. ...

Date Bowl W/L Opponent PF PA
January 1, 1916 Rose Bowl W Brown 14 0
January 1, 1931 Rose Bowl L Alabama 0 24
December 18, 1981 Holiday Bowl L Brigham Young 36 38
December 25, 1988 Aloha Bowl W Houston 24 22
December 29, 1992 Copper Bowl W Utah 31 28
December 31, 1994 Alamo Bowl W Baylor 10 3
January 1, 1998 Rose Bowl L Michigan 16 21
December 31, 2001 Sun Bowl W Purdue 33 27
January 1, 2003 Rose Bowl L Oklahoma 14 34
December 30, 2003 Holiday Bowl W Texas 28 20
Total 10 bowl games 6-4 206 217

Notes

  1. ^ Washington State University Bowl Game History

References

  • ESPN College Football Encyclopedia(Pages 998-995)


 

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