Mark your calendar. Get ready to put 101 candles on the Linfield Football birthday cake.The 2015 season will be Linfield football's 101st. What’s a good slogan for this season? How about “101 – Get ‘er Done!”
Linfield, then McMinnville College, started playing the sport in 1896. First game ever for the Wildcats was vs. Pacific College (now called George Fox University. Don’t confuse Pacific College with Pacific University.)
Linfield did not play football 1906-1921 because the college Board of Trustees deemed football too violent. The sport was dropped in the summer of 1906 and resumed with the 1922 season.
The first 10 seasons (1896-1905) of Wildcat football were as McMinnville College. All Wildcat football since 1922, the year the college changed its name, has been as Linfield.
Due to World War II, no football was played 1943-1945.
To clarify, the 100th anniversary of STARTING Linfield football was in 1996. But, the 2015 season will be the 101st season of the Wildcats PLAYING football.
=SEPT 2015/LINFIELD FOOTBALL=
Sep 12: 12:30pm vs. Chapman (Linfield Homecoming)
Sep 19: Noon vs. Redlands
Sept 26: Bye
=OCT 2015/LINFIELD FOOTBALL=
Oct 3: 1:30pm at L&C, Portland
Oct 10: 1:30pm vs. Pacific
Oct 17: 1pm at Willamette, Salem
Oct 24: 1:30pm vs. Whitworth (Family Weekend)
Oct 31: 1:30pm at George Fox, Newberg
=NOV 2015/LINFIELD FOOTBALL=
Nov 7: 1pm vs. UPS (AT&T Hall of Fame Game)
Nov 14: 1pm at PLU, Puyallup
