1914 Rutgers Queensmen football team

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][2] Coach Sanford was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971.[3]

1914 Rutgers Queensmen football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–3–1
Head coach
Home stadiumNeilson Field
1914 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW 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
Rutgers    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
Duquesne    1 5 0

Schedule

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

References

  1. "1914 Rutgers Scarlet Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 14, 2016.
  2. "Rutgers Yearly Results (1910–1914)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved June 14, 2016.
  3. "George "Sandy" Sanford". National Football Foundation. Retrieved June 14, 2016.
  4. "Army Beats Rutgers". The Baltimore Sun. October 11, 1914. p. 30 via Newspapers.com.
  5. 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.
  6. "Rutgers swamps the N.Y.U. team". The New York Times. November 27, 1914. Retrieved February 5, 2021 via Newspapers.com.
  7. "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.


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