1915 Maine Black Bears football team

{{Infobox college sports team season

| year = 1915

| team = Maine Black Bears

| sport = football

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| conference = Maine Intercollegiate Athletic Association

| short_conf = MIAA

| record = 6–3

| conf_record = 3–0

| head_coach = Tommy Hughitt

| hc_year = 1st

| captain = Charles Ruffner

| stadium = Alumni Field

| champion = MIAA champion

}}

The 1915 Maine Black Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of Maine during the 1915 college football season. The team compiled a 6–3 record. Charles Ruffner was the team captain.{{cite web|title=2019 Maine Football Media Guide |publisher=University of Maine |year=2019 |page=86 |url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/umaine.sidearmsports.com/documents/2019/8/17/2019_Maine_Football_Media_Guide.pdf|accessdate=June 3, 2020}}

In March 1915, Tommy Hughitt was hired as Maine's head football coach.{{cite news|title=Hughitt of Michigan Maine Football Coach|newspaper=The Boston Globe|date=March 5, 1915|page=8|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52791625/hughitt-of-michigan-maine-football-coach/}} Hughitt had been the quarterback of Fielding H. Yost's Michigan football teams from 1912 to 1914. Hughitt was credited with bringing Yost's system to Maine: "Hughitt showed the effectiveness of the Yost system of coaching by developing a bunch of green material, a team which staged a real 'comeback' after a bad start last year."{{cite news|title=Alumni Notes|year=1915|publisher=The Michigan technic, Volumes 28-29|page=231|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-U3iAAAAMAAJ&q=hughitt+maine+football&pg=RA1-PA231}}

Schedule

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|September 18|||Fort McKinley|Alumni Field|Orono, ME|W 7–0|

|September 25||at|Yale|Yale Field|New Haven, CT|L 0–37|{{cite news|title=Yale Crushes Maine Eleven by Open Play|newspaper=The Sun|date=September 26, 1915|page=11|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113578132/yale-crushes-maine/|via=Newspapers.com}}

|October 2||at|Dartmouth||Hanover, NH|L 0–34|

|October 9|||Vermont|Alumni Field|Orono, ME|W 14–0|{{cite news |title=U. of Maine 14, U. of Vermont 0 |date=October 11, 1915 |newspaper=The Bangor Daily News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/79834124/u-of-maine-14-u-of-vermont-0/|accessdate=June 18, 2021|via=Newspapers.com}}

|October 16|3:00 p.m.||Boston College|Alumni Field|Orono, ME|W 14–0|{{cite news |author= |title=Boston College Vs. U. Of M. Today |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/78632233/the-bangor-daily-news/ |newspaper=Bangor Daily News |location=Bangor, Maine |date=October 6, 1915 |page=3 |access-date=May 30, 2021 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}

|October 23|||{{cfb link|year=1915|team=Bates Bobcats|title=Bates}}|Alumni Field|Orono, ME|W 29–14|

|October 30|||{{cfb link|year=1915|team=Colby Mules|title=Colby}}|Alumni Field|Orono, ME|W 31–6|

|November 6||at|{{cfb link|year=1915|team=Bowdoin Polar Bears|title=Bowdoin}}|Whittier Field|Brunswick, ME|W 23–13|

|November 13||at|Army|The Plain|West Point, NY|L 0–24|

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References

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