The 1915 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team represented Michigan State Normal College (later renamed Eastern Michigan University) during the

1915 college football season The 1915 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Cornell, Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Pittsburgh as having been selected national champions in later years. Only Cornell ...

. The team compiled a record of 4–2–1, shut out five of their seven opponents (including a scoreless tie with the

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freshman team), and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 154 to 25. John B. Hartman was the team captain.

Elmer Mitchell Elmer Dayton Mitchell (September 6, 1889 – June 15, 1983)} was an American football and basketball coach in Michigan who is considered the father of intramural sports. He was the first varsity basketball coach at the University of Michigan at An ...

, formerly a high school coach in

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, was hired to coach the school's football team in May 1915. At the start of fall practice, 60 students tried out for the football team, the largest number in school history up to that time. As the team lacked any players weighing 200 pounds or more, coach Mitchell was compelled to build his team around speed.

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