1917 Rutgers Queensmen football team

American college football season

1917 Rutgers Queensmen football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–1–1
Head coach
  • George Sanford (5th season)
Home stadiumNeilson Field
Seasons
← 1916
1918 →
1917 Eastern college football independents records
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Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Pittsburgh     10 0 0
Williams     7 0 1
Yale     3 0 0
Princeton     2 0 0
Syracuse     8 1 1
Army     7 1 0
Rutgers     7 1 1
Penn     9 2 0
Brown     8 2 0
Fordham     7 2 0
Lehigh     7 2 0
Boston College     6 2 0
Swarthmore     6 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     7 3 0
Colgate     4 2 0
Harvard     3 1 3
New Hampshire     3 2 2
Dartmouth     5 3 0
Geneva     5 3 1
Penn State     5 4 0
Buffalo     4 4 0
NYU     2 2 3
Tufts     3 3 0
Carnegie Tech     2 3 1
Bucknell     3 5 1
Lafayette     3 5 0
Holy Cross     3 4 0
Rhode Island State     2 4 2
Carlisle     3 6 0
Columbia     2 4 0
Delaware     2 5 0
Cornell     3 6 0
Franklin & Marshall     2 6 0
Villanova     0 3 2
Temple     0 6 1
Paul Robeson

The 1917 Rutgers Queensmen football team was an American football team that represented Rutgers University as an independent during the 1917 college football season. In their fifth season under head coach George Sanford, the Queensmen compiled a 7–1–1 record and outscored their opponents, 295 to 28. The team's wins included a 28–0 victory over Fordham. The sole loss was to Syracuse by a 14–10 score. The tie was a 7–7 game with West Virginia.[1][2] Paul Robeson played at the end position for the 1917 and 1918 Rutgers teams, was selected by Frank G. Menke as a first-team All-American in both 1917 and 1918, and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1995.[3] Coach Sanford was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971.[4]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 29Ursinus
W 25–0
October 6Camp Wadsworth
  • Neilson Field
  • New Brunswick, NJ
W 90–0
October 13at SyracuseSyracuse, NYL 10–14
October 20at LafayetteEaston, PAW 33–7
October 27at Fordham
  • Fordham Field
  • New York, NY
W 28–0
November 3West Virginia
  • Neilson Field
  • New Brunswick, NJ
T 7–7
November 10Springfield YMCA
  • Neilson Field
  • New Brunswick, NJ
W 61–0
November 17League Island Navy
  • Neilson Field
  • New Brunswick, NJ
W 27–0
November 24Newport Naval Reserves
  • Ebbets Field
  • Brooklyn, NY
W 14–0

References

  1. ^ "1917 Rutgers Scarlet Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 14, 2016.
  2. ^ "Rutgers Yearly Results (1915–1919)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on March 27, 2016. Retrieved June 14, 2016.
  3. ^ "Paul "Robey" Robeson". National Football Foundation. Retrieved June 14, 2016.
  4. ^ "George "Sandy" Sanford". National Football Foundation. Retrieved June 14, 2016.
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