1965 Rhode Island Rams football team

1965 Yankee Conference football standings
	$ – Conference champion;

The 1965 Rhode Island Rams football team was an American football team that represented the University of Rhode Island as a member of the Yankee Conference during the 1965 NCAA College Division football season. In its third season under head coach Jack Zilly, the team compiled a 2–7 record (1–4 against conference opponents), finished in fifth place out of six teams in the Yankee Conference, and was outscored by a total of 181 to 52.^[1]^[2] The team played its home games at Meade Stadium in Kingston, Rhode Island.

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
September 25	at Brown	Brown Stadium Providence, RI (rivalry)	W 14–6	^[3]
October 2	New Hampshire	Meade Stadium Kingston, RI	W 23–6
October 9	at Vermont	Centennial Field Burlington, VT	L 6–26	^[4]
October 16	at UMass	Alumni Field Amherst, MA	L 0–30
October 23	Maine	Meade Stadium Kingston, RI	L 0–36
October 30	Springfield	Meade Stadium Kingston, RI	L 6–7
November 6	at Temple	Temple Stadium Philadelphia, PA	L 0–28	^[5]
November 13	Connecticut	Meade Stadium Kingston, RI (rivalry)	L 0–14
November 20	at Boston University	Nickerson Field Boston, MA	L 3–28

^ "2009 Rhode Island Football Media Guide" (PDF). University of Rhode Island. 2009. p. 115.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Rhode Island Yearly Results (1965-1969)". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
^ "R.I. defense repulses favored Brown, 14–6". The Boston Sunday Globe. Associated Press. September 26, 1965. p. 58. Retrieved June 4, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Vermont spolis R.I.'s unbeaten record, 26–6". The Boston Globe. October 10, 1965. Retrieved June 4, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Frush, Charlie (November 7, 1965). "Temple trims Rhode Island for 4th win". The Philadelphia Inquirer. sect. 3, p. 1. Retrieved June 4, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.

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1965 Yankee Conference football standings
v t	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Maine $	5	–	0	–	0	8	–	2	–	0
UMass	4	–	1	–	0	7	–	2	–	0
Vermont	2	–	2	–	0	6	–	2	–	0
Connecticut	2	–	2	–	0	3	–	6	–	0
Rhode Island	1	–	4	–	0	2	–	7	–	0
New Hampshire	0	–	5	–	0	0	–	8	–	0

$ – Conference champion