The 1922 Kansas State Agricultural College Wildcats football team represented Kansas State Agricultural College

Kansas State University

Kansas State University, commonly shortened to K-State, is an institution of higher learning located in Manhattan, Kansas, in the United States...

 in the college football

College football

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 season of 1922.

1922 college football season

The 1922 college football season had a number of unbeaten and untied teams, and no clear-cut champion. Three different "retro polls", taken years later and based on opinions drawn from historical research, reached different conclusions...

  1922 saw the Wildcats finish with a record of 5 wins, 1 loss and 2 ties, and a 3-1-2 record in Missouri Valley Conference

Missouri Valley Conference

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 play.

The team's

Kansas State Wildcats football

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 head football coach was future Hall-of-Famer

College Football Hall of Fame

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 Charlie Bachman

Charlie Bachman

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. The Wildcats played their home games in brand new Memorial Stadium

Memorial Stadium (Kansas State)

Memorial Stadium is a stadium in Manhattan, Kansas. For several decades it was used by Kansas State University for college football and track and field. It was the home field of the K-State's football team between 1922 and 1967, prior to the opening of Bill Snyder Family Football Stadium...

, which opened that year. Before the season started, Coach Bachman arranged for a live wildcat

Bobcat

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 to be kept on the sidelines of the new stadium as team mascot. The wildcat was named "Touchdown," and the live mascot started a tradition that lasted over fifty years, until it was ended in the 1970s with the death of "Touchdown VIII."

At the conclusion of the season, guard

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 Ray Hahn was named a first team All-American by Grantland Rice

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, becoming the first football player in school history to be so honored.

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