Year: | 1920 |
Team: | Idaho Vandals |
Sport: | football |
Conference: | Northwest Conference |
Short Conf: | Northwest |
Record: | 4–2 |
Conf Record: | 2–2 |
Head Coach: | Thomas Kelley |
Hc Year: | 1st |
Captain: | Felix Plastino[1] [2] |
Stadium: | MacLean Field |
The 1920 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho as a member of the Northwest Conference during the 1920 college football season. Led by first-year head coach Thomas Kelley, the Vandals compiled an overall record of 4–2 with a mark of 2–2 in conference play, placing fourth in the Northwest Conference.[3] The team played one home game on campus, at MacLean Field in Moscow, Idaho, and one in Boise, Idaho, at the state fairgrounds.
Idaho dropped a sixth consecutive game to Washington State in the Battle of the Palouse, falling, 14–7, in the opener in Moscow.[4] [5] Three years later, the Vandals won the first of three consecutive, their only three-peat in the
After coming up six points short at Oregon to start with two losses,[6] [7] Idaho won its last