1955 Brown Bears football team
American college football season
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The 1955 Brown Bears football team was an American football team that represented Brown University as an independent during the 1955 college football season.
| 1955 Brown Bears football | |
|---|---|
| Conference | Ivy League |
| Record | 2–7 (2–4 Ivy) |
| Head coach |
|
| Captain | J. McGuinness |
| Home stadium | Brown Stadium |
In their fifth season under head coach Alva Kelley, the Bears compiled a 2–7 record, and were outscored 139 to 88. J. McGuinness was the team captain.[1]
This would be Brown's final year as a football independent, as the Ivy League, which Brown had helped co-found in 1954, began football competition in 1956. Six of the nine opponents on Brown's 1955 schedule were Ivy League members (with Penn the only Ivy not scheduled); for decades, (future) Ivy members had comprised about half of Brown's opponents annually.
Brown played its home games at Brown Stadium in Providence, Rhode Island.
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 24 | at Columbia | L 12–14 | 8,000 | [2] | |
| October 1 | at Yale | L 20–27 | 22,000 | [3] | |
| October 8 | Dartmouth |
| W 7–0 | 15,000 | [4] |
| October 15 | Rutgers |
| L 12–14 | 12,000 | [5] |
| October 22 | Rhode Island |
| L 7–19 | 16,000 | [6] |
| October 29 | at Princeton | L 7–14 | 22,500 | [7] | |
| November 5 | Cornell |
| L 7–20 | 2,500 | [8] |
| November 12 | at Harvard | W 14–6 | 16,500 | [9] | |
| November 24 | Colgate |
| L 0–25 | [10] |