[1] In its first season under head coach Merle E. Wagoner, Kent State compiled a 1–1–3 record and was outscored by a total of 24 to 13.

On November 14, 1925, the team won the program's first victory on the field, defeating West Liberty by a 7-6 score.

)[2] The Chestnut Burr for 1926 summarized the 1925 football season as follows:Athletics at Kent State were in an unusually depressed condition when Coach Merle Wagoner and Director Frank L. Oktavec came to take charge in the fall of '25.

Although Kent won but one game she can boast of going through a whole season with but one defeat.

His general good spirits and his contagious enthusiasm have already won for him the respect of the college men and there is no doubt but what his success for another season will prove just as successful.