1914 Rutgers Queensmen football team

1914 Rutgers Queensmen football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–3–1
Head coach
CaptainJohn Toohey
Home stadiumNeilson Field
1914 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Army   –   9 – 0 – 0
Harvard   –   7 – 0 – 2
Washington & Jefferson   –   10 – 1 – 0
Dartmouth   –   8 – 1 – 0
Lehigh   –   8 – 1 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   8 – 1 – 0
Cornell   –   8 – 2 – 0
Yale   –   7 – 2 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   6 – 2 – 1
Colgate   –   5 – 2 – 1
Princeton   –   5 – 2 – 1
Brown   –   5 – 2 – 2
Fordham   –   6 – 3 – 1
Geneva   –   5 – 3 – 0
Tufts   –   5 – 3 – 0
Penn State   –   5 – 3 – 1
  –   5 – 3 – 1
Lafayette   –   5 – 3 – 2
Syracuse   –   5 – 3 – 2
Boston College   –   5 – 4 – 0
NYU   –   5 – 4 – 0
Villanova   –   4 – 3 – 1
Bucknell   –   4 – 4 – 1
Carnegie Tech   –   4 – 4 – 0
Penn   –   4 – 4 – 1
Temple   –   3 – 3 – 0
Rhode Island State   –   2 – 3 – 3
Carlisle   –   5 – 10 – 1
Holy Cross   –   2 – 5 – 1
Vermont   –   2 – 6 – 1
New Hampshire   –   1 – 6 – 2
Duquesne   –   1 – 5 – 0

The 1914 Rutgers Queensmen football team represented Rutgers University as an independent during the 1914 college football season. In their second season under head coach George Sanford, the Queensmen compiled a 5–3–1 record and outscored their opponents, 208 to 73.[1] Sanford was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971.[2]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26at PrincetonL 0–12
October 3RPI
W 32–0
October 10at ArmyL 0–13[3]
October 17Muhlenberg
  • Neilson Field
  • New Brunswick, NJ
W 17–7
October 24vs. Tufts
W 16–76,000[4]
November 7at SyracuseT 14–14
November 21at StevensHoboken, NJW 83–0
November 26at NYU
W 33–0[5]
November 28vs. Washington & JeffersonL 13–20[6]

References

  1. ^ "1914 Rutgers Scarlet Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 14, 2016.
  2. ^ "George "Sandy" Sanford". National Football Foundation. Retrieved June 14, 2016.
  3. ^ "Army Beats Rutgers". The Baltimore Sun. October 11, 1914. p. 30 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ O'Neill, Harold E. (October 26, 1914). "Fast Tufts Team Bowled Over by Speed and Strength of Rutgers Eleven Which Wins Brilliant Game, Score 16 to 7; Big Crowd Thrilled as Tide of Battle Changed in 2nd Half". The Daily Home News. New Brunswick, New Jersey. p. 18. Retrieved September 18, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  5. ^ "Rutgers swamps the N.Y.U. team". The New York Times. November 27, 1914. Retrieved February 5, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "W. & J. Fighters Defeat Rutgers Gridders". The Pittsburgh Gazette Times. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. November 29, 1914. p. 18. Retrieved September 18, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.