Washington State Cougars football

Washington State Cougars
Current season
First season	1893
Head coach	Paul Wulff
	2nd year, 2–11–0
Home stadium	Martin Stadium
Stadium capacity	35,117
Stadium surface	FieldTurf
Location	Pullman, Washington
Conference	Pac-10
All-time record	492–475–45 (.508)
Postseason bowl record	6–4–0
Claimed national titles	1
Conference titles	4
Consensus All-Americans	5
Current uniform
Colors	Crimson and Gray
Fight song	Washington State University Fight Song
Mascot	Butch T. Cougar
Marching band	Cougar Marching Band
Major Rivals	Washington Huskies Idaho Vandals Oregon Ducks Oregon State Beavers
Website	WSUcougars.com

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.

The Cougars play at Martin Stadium, which has the lowest capacity of any Pac-10 stadium at 35,117. The head coach is Paul Wulff, who was hired on December 11, 2007.

1915 National Championship

Recently there has been a case made about Washington State's claim to the 1915 National Championship. The Washington State Warriors that won the 1915 Rose Bowl, finished 10–0 and outscored its opponents 204–10 was in fact one of five teams that went undefeated that year, the other four being Cornell University (currently recognized as the 1915 champions), the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Oklahoma and rival University of Washington, as the two did not play that season. 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 came to an end before a decision 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^[who?] 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.[1]

Chronology of Washington State Head Coaches

Martin Stadium, home of Cougars football

Bowl games

Washington 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]

Notable players

Notes

1. ^ Washington State University Bowl Game History

References

• ESPN College Football Encyclopedia (pages 998–995)