1911 Rutgers Queensmen football team

American college football season

1911 Rutgers Queensmen football

Conference	Independent
Record	4–4–1
Head coach	Howard Gargan (2nd season)
Captain	James K. Alverson
Seasons ← 1910 1912 →

1911 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Penn State		–		8	–	0	–	1
Carlisle		–		11	–	1	–	0
Princeton		–		8	–	0	–	2
Trinity (CT)		–		6	–	0	–	2
Temple		–		6	–	1	–	0
Army		–		6	–	1	–	1
Swarthmore		–		6	–	1	–	1
Dartmouth		–		8	–	2	–	0
Lafayette		–		8	–	2	–	0
Yale		–		7	–	2	–	1
Harvard		–		6	–	2	–	1
Cornell		–		7	–	3	–	0
Rhode Island State		–		5	–	2	–	1
Brown		–		7	–	3	–	1
Bucknell		–		6	–	3	–	1
Penn		–		7	–	4	–	0
Pittsburgh		–		4	–	3	–	1
Washington & Jefferson		–		6	–	4	–	0
Syracuse		–		5	–	3	–	2
Dickinson		–		4	–	4	–	0
Lehigh		–		5	–	5	–	1
Rutgers		–		4	–	4	–	1
Dickinson		–		4	–	4	–	0
St. Bonaventure		–		2	–	2	–	0
Carnegie Tech		–		4	–	5	–	0
Holy Cross		–		4	–	5	–	0
Tufts		–		3	–	4	–	0
Vermont		–		3	–	5	–	0
NYU		–		1	–	3	–	3
Colgate		–		3	–	6	–	0
Franklin & Marshall		–		3	–	6	–	0
Geneva		–		1	–	6	–	1
Villanova		–		0	–	5	–	1
Boston College		–		0	–	7	–	0

The 1911 Rutgers Queensmen football team was an American football team that represented Rutgers University as an independent during the 1911 college football season. The 1911 Rutgers team compiled a 4–4–1 record and was outscored by opponents by a combined total of 99 to 25.^[1]^[2] Howard Gargan was the team's coach, and James K. Alverson was the team captain.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
October 3	at Princeton	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	L 0–37	^[3]
October 7	Haverford	Neilson Field New Brunswick, NJ	W 10–6	^[4]
October 14	at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	L 0–18	^[5]
October 21	Union (NY)	Neilson Field New Brunswick, NJ	W 6–0	^[6]
October 28	at Swarthmore	Whittier Field Swarthmore, PA	L 0–21	^[7]
November 4	RPI	Neilson Field New Brunswick, NJ	W 6–0	^[8]
November 11	at NYU	Ohio Field Bronx, NY	T 0–0	^[9]
November 18	Ursinus	Neilson Field New Brunswick, NJ	L 0–17	^[10]
November 25	at Stevens	Stevens Field Hoboken, NJ	W 3–0	^[11]

Roster

The players on the 1911 football team were as follows.

Henry Clifton Cooper, left end, Palmyra, NJ, Class of 1912
G. Raymond Robinson, left end, Class of 1913
Toohey, left tackle, Class of 1914
Theodore Van Winkle, left guard, Class of 1913
Julie, center, Class of 1913
Samuel Furman Foster, right guard, Bayhead, NJ, Class of 1912
Alfred Bentley Titsworth, right guard, Plainfield, NJ, Class of 1912
McCallum, right tackle, Class of 1914
John F. McGovern, right end, New Brunswick, NJ, Class of 1912^[12]
Herbert M. Bergamini, right end, Class of 1913
Todd, right end, Class of 1914
Dexter White, quarterback, New York, NY, Class of 1912
Elmendorf, quarterback, Class of 1914
Frederick J. Johnson, left halfback, Class of 1913
Gay, right halfback, Class of 1915
James K. Alverson, fullback, East Orange, NJ, Class of 1912

References

^ "1911 Rutgers Scarlet Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 14, 2016.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Rutgers Yearly Results (1910-1914)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
^ "Princeton's open football wins: Rutgers defeated by forward passes, fake formations, and line shifts". The New York Times. October 5, 1911. Retrieved December 2, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Rutgers defeats Haverford". The New York Times. October 8, 1911. Retrieved December 2, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Practice for West Point; Soldiers defeat Rutgers easily, with substitute team at end". New-York Tribune. October 15, 1911. Retrieved December 2, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Rutgers scores early; Touchdown and goal in first period enough to beat Union". The New York Times. October 22, 1911. Retrieved December 2, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Swarthmore finds Rutgers eleven easy picking". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 29, 1911. Retrieved December 2, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Rutgers is hard pressed; Defeats Rensselaer in close and keenly contested game". New-York Tribune. November 5, 1911. Retrieved December 2, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "New York University and Rutgers play a scoreless game". The Daily Home News. November 13, 1911. Retrieved December 2, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Ursinus jolts Rutgers boys". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 19, 1911. Retrieved December 2, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Jimmy Alverson wins his last game for Rutgers; His field goal brings 3 to 0 defeat to Stevens". The Daily Home News. November 27, 1911. Retrieved December 2, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ The Central New Jersey Home News December 13, 1938 p2

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