Kent State Golden Flashes football
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| First season | 1920 | ||
| Athletic director | Joel Nielsen | ||
| Head coach |
Paul Haynes 4th year, 12–35 (.255) |
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| Stadium | Dix Stadium | ||
| Year built | 1969 | ||
| Seating capacity | 25,319 | ||
| Field surface | FieldTurf | ||
| Location | Kent, Ohio | ||
| NCAA division | Division I FBS | ||
| Conference | Mid-American Conference | ||
| Division | East | ||
| Past conferences | Ohio Athletic Conference | ||
| All-time record | 320–499–28 (.394) | ||
| Bowl record | 0–3 (.000) | ||
| Conference titles | 1 | ||
| Division titles | 1 | ||
| Consensus All-Americans | 39 | ||
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| Colors | Navy Blue and Gold |
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| Fight song | Fight on for KSU | ||
| Marching band | Marching Golden Flashes | ||
| Rivalries | Akron Zips | ||
| Website | KentStateSports.com | ||
The Kent State Golden Flashes football team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. The team is a member of the Mid-American Conference East division, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A). The Golden Flashes played their first game in 1920 and since 1969 have played their home games at Dix Stadium. The head coach since December 2012 is Paul Haynes, a Kent State alumnus who played for the Flashes from 1987–91.
The first attempt to establish a football team was in 1914, one year after the first classes were held on campus and four years after the school was founded in 1910. The team played two practice games against local high schools, but was discontinued by the athletic board and faculty to focus on basketball season. While there was hope the team would return for the 1915 season, no team was established until 1920. The team played their first game October 30, 1920, against Ashland College, a 6–0 loss under coach Paul Chandler. The first Kent State home football game was held November 6, a 7–0 loss to sister school Bowling Green. The final game of the season was a home game scheduled against St. Ignatius College of Cleveland, but the game was not played and counted as a forfeit win for Kent. The team would not record their first true victory until November 14, 1925, a 7–6 win over West Liberty State College. Outside the forfeited win in 1920, Kent State would fail to score in their first 14 games, posting a record of 0–13–1 before finally putting points on the board in a 7–6 loss to West Liberty in 1923. During that streak, Kent State would suffer the worst loss in school history, a 118–0 loss to Baldwin–Wallace College, also in 1923. Following the 7–6 loss to West Liberty, a new shutout streak began which lasted 8 games, in which the Flashes, then known as the "Silver Foxes" went 0–6–2. The streak began with the second most lopsided loss in school history, an 82–0 loss to Slippery Rock. The streak finally ended with a 6–6 tie with the Indiana (PA) Normal School in 1925, the game which preceded Kent State's first true victory. Kent State posted their first winning season in 1928, going 4–2–2.
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