2015 Ritsumeikan Panthers football team

2015 Ritsumeikan Panthers football
Kansai League Champions
West Japan Champions, College National Champions
L 22–19 Rice Bowl vs Panasonic Impulse
Conference	Kansai Collegiate American Football League
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2015 record	10–1 (3–0 Kansai)
Head coach	Akira Yonekura
Co-defensive coordinator	Yuji Ikegami
Home stadium	Nishikyogoku Athletic Stadium

2015 Kansai Collegiate American Football League Division 1 football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
Ritsumeikan $		7	–	1					10	–	1
Kwansei Gakuin		7	–	1					9	–	1
Kansai		6	–	3					6	–	3
Kyoto		4	–	4					4	–	5
Kobe		5	–	4					8	–	4
Ryukoku		3	–	6					3	–	6
Kinki		2	–	6					2	–	7
Momoyama Gakuin		0	–	9					0	–	10
$ – Conference champion As of December 14, 2015;

The 2015 Ritsumeikan Panthers football team represents Ritsumeikan University in the Kansai Collegiate American Football League during the 2015 season. Ritsumeikan plays their home games at Nishikyogoku Athletic Stadium in Kyoto, Japan.^[1]

Season

Schedule

Preseason

Date	Time	Opponent^#	Rank^#	Site	TV	Result
April 29	2:30 PM	Meijo*		Nagahama Dome • Shiga Prefecture		W 21-7
May 10	5:00 pm	Kansai		Expo Flash Field • Suita		L 7-24
*Non-conference game. Homecoming. ^#Rankings from Coaches' Poll released prior to game. All times are in Japan Standard Time.

Regular Season

Date	Time	Opponent^#	Rank^#	Site	TV	Result
August 28	6:40 PM	Kyoto		Nishikyogoku Athletic Stadium • Kyoto	Ustream	W 44-0
September 12	6:30 PM	at Momoyama Gakuin		Expo Flash Field • Suita	Ustream	W 64-7
September 26	2:20 PM	at Kobe		Prince Stadium • Kobe	Ustream	W 48-0
October 11	5:00 PM	at Ryukoku		Expo Flash Field • Suita	Ustream	W 35-3
October 24	3:00 PM	Kansai		Nishikyogoku Athletics Stadium • Kyoto	Ustream	W 31-3
November 7	12:00 PM	at Kinki		Nagai Stadium • Osaka	Ustream	W 41-7
November 22	1:00 PM	Kwansei Gakuin		Nagai Stadium • Osaka	Ustream	W 30-27
*Non-conference game. Homecoming. ^#Rankings from Coaches' Poll released prior to game. All times are in Japan Standard Time.

Schedule Sources:^[2][3]

Postseason

Date	Time	Opponent^#	Rank^#	Site	TV	Result
November 29	2:00 PM	at Seinan Gakuin*		Prince Stadium • Kobe (West Japan Championship)	Ustream	W 48-17
December 13	1:05 PM	at Waseda*		Koshien Stadium • Nishinomiya (Koshien Bowl)	Ustream	W 28-27
January 3		at Panasonic Impulse*		Tokyo Dome • Tokyo (Rice Bowl)		L 22-19
*Non-conference game. Homecoming. ^#Rankings from Coaches' Poll released prior to game. All times are in Japan Standard Time.

Game summaries

Regular Season

Kyoto

Ritsumeikan Panthers at Kyoto Gangsters – Game summary

	1	2	3	4	Total
Ritsumeikan	14	7	16	7	44
Kyoto	0	0	0	0	0

at Nishikyogoku Athletic Stadium • Kyoto

• Date: August 28, 2015
• Game time: 6:40 p.m.
• TV: Ustream
• Sources:

Momoyama Gakuin

Ritsumeikan at Momoyama Gakuin

1 2 3 4 Total • Ritsumeikan 14 15 21 14 64 Momoyama Gakuin 0 0 7 0 7 Date: September 12th Game start: 6:30 PM Television network: Ustream

Kinki

Ritsumeikan at Kinki

1 2 3 4 Total • Ritsumeikan 14 21 0 6 41 Kinki 0 0 0 7 7 Date: November 7th Game start: 12:00 PM Television network: Ustream

Postseason

Seinan Gakuin (West Japan Championship)

Seinan Gakuin at Ritsumeikan

1 2 3 4 Total Seinan Gakuin 0 3 7 7 17 • Ritsumeikan 7 14 7 20 48 Date: November, 29th Location: Osaka Game start: 2:00PM Television network: Ustream

Panasonic Impulse (Rice Bowl)

References

1. "Ritsumekian 2015 Schedule". Ritsumeikan Panthers football. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
2. "Ritsumekian 2015 Spring Schedule". Ritsumeikan Panthers football. Archived from the original on April 28, 2015. Retrieved November 27, 2015.
3. "Ritsumekian 2015 Schedule". Ritsumeikan Panthers football. Retrieved October 1, 2015.

External links

• Official website