1916 Rutgers Queensmen football team

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1916
Rutgers Queensmen football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–2–2
Head coach
Home stadiumNeilson Field
Seasons
1916 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Army     9 0 0
Pittsburgh     8 0 0
Brown     8 1 0
Colgate     8 1 0
Yale     8 1 0
Fordham     6 1 1
Swarthmore     6 1 1
Penn State     8 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     8 2 0
Boston College     6 2 0
Cornell     6 2 0
Princeton     6 2 0
Lehigh     6 2 1
Dartmouth     5 2 2
Harvard     7 3 0
Penn     7 3 1
Temple
    3 1 2
Tufts     5 3 0
Carnegie Tech
    4 3 0
Rutgers     3 2 2
NYU     4 3 1
Syracuse     5 4 0
Holy Cross     4 5 0
Vermont     4 5 0
Rhode Island State     3 4 1
Geneva     2 5 2
Carlisle     1 3 1
Lafayette     2 6 1
Bucknell     3 9 0
Columbia     1 5 2
Franklin & Marshall
    1 7 0
Villanova     1 8 0

The 1916 Rutgers Queensmen football team represented Rutgers University as an independent during the 1916 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach George Sanford, the Queensmen compiled a 3–2–2 record and outscored their opponents, 106 to 52.[1][2] Coach Sanford was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 7Villanova
W 33–0
October 14Washington and Lee
  • Neilson Field
  • New Brunswick, NJ
T 13–13
October 28at Brown
L 3–21
November 4vs. Holy Cross
W 14–63,000[4]
November 11West Virginia
  • Neilson Field
  • New Brunswick, NJ
T 0–0
November 25
Dickinson
  • Neilson Field
  • New Brunswick, NJ
W 34–0
November 30vs. Washington & JeffersonL 9–12[5]

References

  1. ^ "1916 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.
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