1916 Ohio State Buckeyes football team

The 1916 Ohio State Buckeyes football was an American football team that represented Ohio State University as a member of the Western Conference and the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) during the 1916 college football season. In their fourth year under head coach John Wilce, the Buckeyes compiled a perfect 7–0 record and outscored opponents 258 to 29. Ohio State was 4–0 Western Conference opponents, winning the conference championship, the first in school history.

1916 Ohio State Buckeyes football
Western Conference champion
ConferenceWestern Conference, Ohio Athletic Conference
Record7–0 (4–0 Western, 3–0 OAC)
Head coach
Offensive schemeHeavy run
Base defenseMulti
Home stadiumOhio Field
Uniform
1916 Western Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Ohio State $ 4 0 07 0 0
Northwestern 4 1 06 1 0
Minnesota 3 1 06 1 0
Chicago 3 3 03 4 0
Illinois 2 2 13 3 1
Wisconsin 1 2 14 2 1
Iowa 1 2 04 3 0
Indiana 0 3 12 4 1
Purdue 0 4 12 4 1
  • $ Conference champion
1916 Ohio Athletic Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Miami (OH) $ 6 0 17 0 1
Mount Union 6 1 08 2 0
Denison 5 0 25 1 2
Ohio 4 1 15 2 1
Wooster 5 2 06 2 0
Case 4 3 05 5 0
Ohio Wesleyan 2 2 22 3 2
Western Reserve 3 4 03 7 0
Akron 2 4 02 7 0
Ohio Northern 2 5 03 7 0
Kenyon 2 5 02 7 0
Wittenberg 0 5 12 5 2
Cincinnati 0 6 10 8 2
Baldwin–Wallace 0 1 00 2 0
Oberlin 0 5 00 7 0
Ohio State * 3 0 07 0 0
  • $ Conference champion
  • * – did not complete for championship

Half of the team's points were tallied in a 128–0 victory over Oberlin. The 128 points scored against Oberlin remains a single-game Ohio State record.

Halfback Chic Harley was a consensus first-team pick on the 1916 All-America college football team. Other notable players included end Charles Bolen, center Ferdinand Holtkamp, and tackle Bob Karch.

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