1919 Rutgers Queensmen football team

The 1919 Rutgers Queensmen football team represented Rutgers University as an independent during the 1919 college football season. In their seventh season under head coach George Sanford, the Queensmen compiled a 5–3 record and outscored their opponents, 115 to 70. The team's victories included games against North Carolina (19-0), Boston College (13-7), and Northwestern (28-0). The team's losses included games against Syracuse (0-14) and West Virginia (7-30).[1][2] Coach Sanford was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971.[3]

1919 Rutgers Queensmen football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–3
Head coach
Home stadiumNeilson Field
1919 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Harvard    9 0 1
Penn State    7 1 0
Swarthmore    7 1 0
Dartmouth    6 1 1
Colgate    5 1 1
New Hampshire    7 2 0
Lafayette    6 2 0
Washington & Jefferson    6 2 0
Williams    6 2 0
Syracuse    8 3 0
Penn    6 2 1
Pittsburgh    6 2 1
Lehigh    6 3 0
Princeton    4 2 1
Geneva    4 2 2
Army    6 3 0
Boston College    5 3 0
Holy Cross    5 3 0
Rutgers    5 3 0
Yale    5 3 0
Villanova    5 3 1
Brown    5 4 1
Bucknell    5 4 1
NYU    4 4 0
Carnegie Tech    3 4 0
Columbia    2 4 3
Cornell    3 5 0
Vermont    3 6 0
Franklin & Marshall    2 4 2
Tufts    2 5 0
Buffalo    0 5 1
Rhode Island State    0 8 1
Drexel    0 4 0

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27Ursinus
W 34–0
October 4North Carolina
  • Neilson Field
  • New Brunswick, NJ
W 19–9
October 11at LehighBethlehem, PAL 0–19
October 25New York Aggies
  • Neilson Field
  • New Brunswick, NJ
W 14–0[4]
November 4vs. SyracuseL 0–1412,000
November 82:00 p.m.at Boston CollegeW 13–7[5]
November 15West Virginia
  • Neilson Field
  • New Brunswick, NJ
L 7–30
November 22vs. NorthwesternW 28–0[6]

References

  1. "1919 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. "George "Sandy" Sanford". National Football Foundation. Retrieved June 14, 2016.
  4. "Rutgers Defeats N.Y. Aggies on Gridiron". The Sunday Times. October 26, 1919. p. 10 via Newspapers.com.
  5. Hallahan, John J. (November 8, 1919). "Boston's Big Game B. C. Vs Rutgers". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 4. Retrieved May 30, 2021 via Newspapers.com open access.
  6. "Rutgers Gives Her Greatest Exhibition of Football Power in Crushing Strong Northwestern Eleven, 28 to 0, Before Assemblage of 15,000". The Sunday Times. November 23, 1919 via Newspapers.com.


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