2015 Ritsumeikan Panthers football team

2015 Ritsumeikan Panthers football
2015 Ritsumeikan Panthers football
Kansai League Champions
West Japan Champions, College National Champions
L 22–19 Rice Bowl vs Panasonic Impulse
Conference	Kansai Collegiate American Football League
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Record	10–1 (3–0 Kansai)
Head coach	Akira Yonekura;
Co-defensive coordinator	Yuji Ikegami
Home stadium	Nishikyogoku Athletic Stadium
	Seasons ← 2014 2016 →

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Record10–1 (3–0 Kansai)

Headcoach

2015 Kansai Collegiate American Football League Division 1 football standings
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Team	W		L	W		L
Ritsumeikan $	7	–	1	10	–	1
Kwansei Gakuin	7	–	1	9	–	1
Kansai	6	–	3	6	–	3
Kyoto	4	–	4	4	–	5
Kobe	5	–	4	8	–	4
Ryukoku	3	–	6	3	–	6
Kinki	2	–	6	2	–	7
Momoyama Gakuin	0	–	9	0	–	10

$ – Conference champion As of December 14, 2015

The 2015 Ritsumeikan Panthers football team represented Ritsumeikan University in the Kansai Collegiate American Football League during the 2015 season. Ritsumeikan played their home games at Nishikyogoku Athletic Stadium in Kyoto, Japan.^[1]

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result
April 29	2:30 pm	Meijo*	Nagahama Dome Shiga Prefecture	W 21-7
May 10	5:00 pm	Kansai	Expo Flash Field Suita	L 7-24
*Non-conference game All times are in [[Japan Standard Time Time Zone\|Japan Standard Time time]]

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result
August 28	6:40 pm	Kyoto	Nishikyogoku Athletic Stadium Kyoto	Ustream	W 44-0
September 12	6:30 pm	at Momoyama Gakuin	Expo Flash Field Suita	Ustream	W 64-7
September 26	2:20 pm	at Kobe	Prince Stadium Kobe	Ustream	W 48-0
October 11	5:00 pm	at Ryukoku	Expo Flash Field Suita	Ustream	W 35-3
October 24	3:00 pm	Kansai	Nishikyogoku Athletics Stadium Kyoto	Ustream	W 31-3
November 7	12:00 pm	at Kinki	Nagai Stadium Osaka	Ustream	W 41-7
November 22	1:00 pm	Kwansei Gakuin	Nagai Stadium Osaka	Ustream	W 30-27
All times are in [[Japan Standard Time Time Zone\|Japan Standard Time time]]

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result
November 29	2:00 pm	at Seinan Gakuin*	Prince Stadium Kobe (West Japan Championship)	Ustream	W 48-17
December 13	1:05 pm	at Waseda*	Koshien Stadium Nishinomiya (Koshien Bowl)	Ustream	W 28-27
January 3		at Panasonic Impulse*	Tokyo Dome Tokyo (Rice Bowl)		L 22-19
*Non-conference game All times are in [[Japan Standard Time Time Zone\|Japan Standard Time time]]

Quarter	1	2	3	4	Total
Ritsumeikan	14	7	16	7	44
Kyoto	0	0	0	0	0

Team	1	2	3	4	Total
• Ritsumeikan	14	21	0	6	41
Kinki	0	0	0	7	7

Schedule

v t e Ritsumeikan Panthers football
Venues	Expo Flash Field Nishikyogoku Athletic Stadium Nagai Stadium
People	Masafumi Kawaguchi Noriaki Kinoshita
Seasons	1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
College National championship seasons in bold

v t e Kansai Collegiate American Football League
Division 1	Doshisha Wild Rover Kansai Kaisers Kendai Big Blue Kobe Ravens Konan Red Gang Kwansei Gakuin Fighters Kyoto Gangsters Ritsumeikan Panthers
Division 2	Hyogo Trail Blazers Kobe Gakuin Navy Seals Kyoto Sangyo Saggitarius Momoyama Gakuin Thundering Legion Lions Osaka Tridents Osaka Metropolitan Paladins Ryukoku Seahorse Wakayama Blind Sharks
Defunct	Osaka Prefecture Shrikes
Bowls	Koshien Bowl Rice Bowl Tokyo Bowl
Seasons	1941 1942 Did not play 1943-1945 because of World War II 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
See also	Legacy Bowl X-League

v t e Collegiate American football in Japan
East Japan	Kanto Hokkaido Tohoku
West Japan	Chushikoku Hokuriku Kansai Kyūshū Tokai
Bowl games	Azuma American Christmas Heiwadai Ivy Japan Japan X Koshien (All-Japan Collegiate Football Championship) Legacy Mirage Pearl Pine Rice Tokyo Western Japan
People	Masafumi Kawaguchi Joe Roth Paul Rusch David Stant
Seasons	2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Major venues	National Stadium Sapporo Dome Tomahawks Field Tokyo Dome Yokohama Stadium Yurtec Stadium Sendai
See also	American football in Japan Eyeshield 21 IFAF Asia JAFA Japan national American football team List of Japanese collegiate American football programs Paul Rusch Cup X-League