http://www.ubbullrun.com/2010/06/ub-football-101.html

Cliff notes:

* Program re-instituted in 1915 after 12 years off
* Program reinstated the same year UB Began Men's Basketball was founded
* The second UB coach, Syracuse Alumni Art Powell, was UB's basketball coach from 1915-1943
* Programs first devoted head coach was Frank M. Pleasant
* First Opponent of the UB Bisons was Hobart College
* UB's game against Hobart was the most lopsided win in school history (81-0)
* UB's first on campus home field 'Rotary Field' opened in 1922
* James Ailinger became the first UB player to turn pro, playing for the Buffalo All Americans
* Coach Biffy Lee (1929-1930) was Knute Rockne's college roommate
* UB beat current conference mate Toledo by a score of 2-0 in 1925.

http://www.ubbullrun.com/2010/06/ub-foot...01_08.html

Section Three: There was more than one great depression in the 1930's

Cliff Notes:

* UB teams renamed the Bulls in 1931 to differentiate between UB and Buffalo professional teams
* Bill Prichard who was an assistant to Biffy Lee was the first to coach "The Bulls" and lasted just one season
* UB played, and was defeated by the Notre Dame "B" team in 1931
* Cornell football alum Jim Wilson led UB for two years in the 30's, in his first two games against Ivy league teams UB lost by a combined 138-0.
* Coach Bibber would join UB from CMU and leave to take over the Athletics department at UConn
* In 1935, Under Coach Bibber Robert Rich, founder of Rich Foods (and owner of the AAA Bision's), would be one of the UB captains.