1915 Rutgers Queensmen football team

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]

1915 Rutgers Queensmen football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–1
Head coach
Home stadiumNeilson Field
Seasons
← 1914
1916 →
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
Rutgers     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

Schedule

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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

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  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.