Washington State Cougars football
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| Washington State Cougars football | |||
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| Head Coach | Bill 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 |
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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.
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.
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.
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[edit] 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 three teams that went undefeated that year, the other two being Cornell University (currently recognized as the 1915 champions) and the University of Pittsburgh. 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 desicion 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]
[edit] Chronology of Washington State Head Coaches
[edit] Bowl GamesWashington 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]
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