1931 Muskingum Fighting Muskies football team
{{short description|American college football season}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox college sports team season
| year = 1931
| team = Muskingum Fighting Muskies
| sport = football
| image =
| image_size =
| conference = Ohio Athletic Conference
| short_conf = OAC
| record = 8–0
| conf_record = 4–0
| head_coach = Bill Lange
| hc_year = 9th
| captain =
| stadium = McConagha Stadium
| champion = OAC champion
}}
{{1931 Ohio Athletic Conference football standings}}
The 1931 Muskingum Fighting Muskies football team was an American football team that represented Muskingum University of New Concord, Ohio, as a member of the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) during the 1931 college football season. In their ninth season under head coach Bill Lange, the Fighting Muskies compiled a perfect 8–0 record (4–0 against OAC opponents), won the OAC championship, shut out six of eight opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 138 to 12.{{cite news|title=1931 - Muskingum (OH)|publisher=College Football Data Warehouse|accessdate=May 30, 2023|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/incomplete_data/game_by_game_current.php?teamid=2151&year=1931|archive-date=September 10, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910031718/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/incomplete_data/game_by_game_current.php?teamid=2151&year=1931|url-status=dead}}{{cite web |author= |title=2019 Ohio Athletic Conference Football Record Book |url=https://www.oac.org/sports/fball/History-Records/FBRecordBook2019.pdf |publisher=Ohio Athletic Conference |date=2019 |page=43 |access-date=December 14, 2020 }}
The 1931 season was one of four perfect seasons in Muskingum football history, along with 1926, 1955, and 1960.{{cite web|title=Muskingum (OH) Records by Year|publisher=College Football Data Warehouse|accessdate=May 30, 2023|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/incomplete_data/year_by_year_current.php?teamid=2151|archive-date=September 6, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906040132/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/incomplete_data/year_by_year_current.php?teamid=2151|url-status=dead}}
Schedule
{{CFB schedule
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|September 25||{{cfb link|year=1931|team=Wilmington Quakers|title=Wilmington (OH)}}
|October 2||Findlay
|October 10|at|{{cfb link|year=1931|team=Mount Union Purple|title=Mount Union}}||Alliance, OH|W 7-0||
|October 16||{{cfb link|year=1931|team=Bethany Bison|title=Bethany (WV)}}
|October 23||{{cfb link|year=1931|team=Heidelberg|title=Heidelberg}}|Student Stadium|New Concord, OH|W 21-6|4,500|{{cite news|title=Muskies Beat Heidelberg For Fifth Straight Win|newspaper=The Times Recorder|date=October 24, 1931|page=12|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-recorder-muskies-beat-heidelbe/125606426/|via=Newspapers.com}}
|October 31|at|Cincinnati
|November 7||{{cfb link|year=1931|team=Wooster Fighting Scots|title=Wooster}}||New Concord, OH|W 19-0||{{cite news|title=Muskies Eleven to Close Season at Ashland Saturday|newspaper=The Times Recorder|date=November 9, 1931|page=10|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-recorder-muskies-eleven-to-clo/125605744/|via=Newspapers.com}}
|November 14|at|{{cfb link|year=1931|team=Ashland Eagles|title=Ashland}}||Ashland, OH|W 24-0||{{cite news|title=Conference Title Goes To Muskies|newspaper=The Coshocton Tribune|date=November 15, 1931|page=9|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tribune-conference-title-goes-to-mus/125605555/|via=Newspapers.com}}
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References
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