1916 Rhode Island State football team

The 1916 Rhode Island State football team was an American football team that represented Rhode Island State College (later renamed the University of Rhode Island) as an independent during the 1916 college football season. In its second year under head coach James A. Baldwin, the team compiled a 3–4–1 record.^[1]

1916 Rhode Island State football
Conference	Independent
Record	3–4–1
Head coach	James A. Baldwin (2nd season)
Seasons ← 1915 1917 →

1916 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Army			–					9	–	0	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					8	–	0	–	0
Brown			–					8	–	1	–	0
Colgate			–					8	–	1	–	0
Yale			–					8	–	1	–	0
Fordham			–					6	–	1	–	1
Swarthmore			–					6	–	1	–	1
Penn State			–					8	–	2	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					8	–	2	–	0
Boston College			–					6	–	2	–	0
Cornell			–					6	–	2	–	0
Princeton			–					6	–	2	–	0
Lehigh			–					6	–	2	–	1
Dartmouth			–					5	–	2	–	2
Harvard			–					7	–	3	–	0
Penn			–					7	–	3	–	1
Temple			–					3	–	1	–	2
Tufts			–					5	–	3	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					4	–	3	–	0
Rutgers			–					3	–	2	–	2
NYU			–					4	–	3	–	1
Syracuse			–					5	–	4	–	0
Holy Cross			–					4	–	5	–	0
Vermont			–					4	–	5	–	0
Rhode Island State			–					3	–	4	–	1
New Hampshire			–					3	–	5	–	2
Geneva			–					2	–	5	–	2
Carlisle			–					1	–	3	–	1
Lafayette			–					2	–	6	–	1
Bucknell			–					3	–	9	–	0
Columbia			–					1	–	5	–	2
Franklin & Marshall			–					1	–	7	–	0
Villanova			–					1	–	8	–	0

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
September 23		Fort Adams	Kingston, RI	W 69–0
September 30		at Brown	Andrews Field Providence, RI (rivalry)	L 0–18	[2]
October 7		at Wesleyan	Middletown, CT	T 3–3	[3]
October 14		at Maine	Orono, ME	W 13–0	[4]
October 21		at Colgate	Hamilton, NY	L 0–33	[5]
October 28		Connecticut	Kingston, RI (rivalry)	W 13–6
November 4	2:30 p.m.	at Boston College	Alumni Field Chestnut Hill, MA	L 0–39	[6][7]
November 18		at New Hampshire	Durham, NH	L 0–12	[8]