Top ranked Boston College lost its season ending game, giving Ohio State their first consensus football National Championship. Horvath then led the Bucks to three scores through the air to upset Michigan and win their first league championship in three years and their sixth in thirty years since joining the Western Conference in 1913. However, the Badgers had a loss and a tie giving Ohio State the Big Ten Championship. The Buckeyes were defeated by the Badgers who were led by Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch. The Buckeyes only loss was to the Wisconsin Badgers in what many now refer to as "The Bad Water Game" where half of the Buckeye players contracted an intestinal disorder after drinking from an unsanitary drinking fountain on the train to Madison. Easily Best So Far 'Wisconsin has the best personnel we've run up against so far,' Brown judged, 'and they'll go well against the rest of the teams on their Big Ten schedule, Minnesota. The Buckeyes outscored their opponents by an average score of 34-11 by scoring a total 337 and 114 for opponents. The new giant horseshoe, home of college footballs Ohio State Buckeyes, captured the 16-year-old Massillon youths imagination. Because the Big Ten Conference did not let its teams participate in any bowl game except for the Rose Bowl, the Buckeyes were given the title by the Associated Press. They were coached by Hall of Fame coach Paul Brown.
They were the first national title team in Ohio State football history. 1912 was the year that Ohio State was accepted into the Western Conference, now known as the Big Ten Conference. The 1942 Ohio State Buckeyes football team was led by WB Les Horvath and QB/Captain George Lynn. The 1912 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented Ohio State University in the 1912 college football season.
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