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1914 Rutgers Queensmen football team

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1914 Rutgers Queensmen football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–3–1
Head coach
Home stadiumNeilson Field
Seasons
← 1913
1915 →
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
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

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

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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

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  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.