1915 Rutgers Queensmen football team

1915 Rutgers Queensmen football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–1
Head coach
Home stadiumNeilson Field
1915 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Cornell   –   9 – 0 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   8 – 0 – 0
Columbia   –   5 – 0 – 0
Harvard   –   8 – 1 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   7 – 1 – 0
  –   7 – 1 – 0
Villanova   –   6 – 1 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   8 – 1 – 1
Colgate   –   5 – 1 – 0
Syracuse   –   9 – 1 – 2
Dartmouth   –   7 – 1 – 1
Tufts   –   5 – 1 – 2
Penn State   –   7 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   8 – 3 – 0
Princeton   –   6 – 2 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   6 – 2 – 0
Temple   –   3 – 1 – 1
Geneva   –   6 – 3 – 0
Wesleyan   –   6 – 3 – 0
Allegheny   –   5 – 3 – 0
Swarthmore   –   5 – 3 – 0
Army   –   5 – 3 – 1
Lehigh   –   6 – 4 – 0
Holy Cross   –   3 – 2 – 2
Brown   –   5 – 4 – 1
Fordham   –   4 – 4 – 0
NYU   –   4 – 4 – 1
Middlebury   –   3 – 4 – 2
Muhlenberg   –   4 – 5 – 0
Yale   –   4 – 5 – 0
Boston College   –   3 – 4 – 0
Penn   –   3 – 5 – 2
WPI   –   3 – 5 – 1
Buffalo   –   3 – 5 – 0
Carlisle   –   3 – 6 – 2
Rhode Island State   –   3 – 5 – 0
New Hampshire   –   3 – 6 – 1
Gettysburg   –   3 – 6 – 0
Rochester   –   3 – 6 – 0
Bucknell   –   2 – 6 – 3
Vermont   –   1 – 4 – 2
Williams   –   1 – 7 – 0

The 1915 Rutgers Queensmen football team represented Rutgers University as an independent during the 1915 college football season. In their third season under head coach George Sanford, the Queensmen compiled a 7–1 record and outscored their opponents, 351 to 33. The team shut out four of its eight opponents, and its only loss was to Princeton by a 10 to 0 score. Sanford was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971.[1]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 25Albright
  • Neilson Field
  • New Brunswick, NJ
W 53–0
October 2at PrincetonL 0–10
October 9RPI
  • Neilson Field
  • New Brunswick, NJ
W 96–0
October 16Muhlenberg
  • Neilson Field
  • New Brunswick, NJ
W 21–0
October 30vs. Springfield YMCANewark, NJW 44–13
November 13at Hamilton Fish Jr.'s All StarsW 28–7[2]
November 20at StevensHoboken, NJW 39–3
November 25at NYU
W 70–0[3]

References

  1. ^ "George "Sandy" Sanford". National Football Foundation. Retrieved June 14, 2016.
  2. ^ "Rutgers Crushes All-Star Eleven". The New York Times. November 14, 1915. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Rutgers ends season with 70 to 0 victory over N.Y.U. team shows great power". The Daily Home News. November 26, 1915. Retrieved February 5, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.