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1915 Rutgers Queensmen football team

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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

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

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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.