1951 NYU Violets football team

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1951 NYU Violets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record1–7
Head coach
Home stadiumTriborough Stadium
Seasons
← 1950
1952 →
1951 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Bucknell   –   9 – 0 – 0
No. 6 Princeton   –   9 – 0 – 0
Susquehanna   –   6 – 0 – 0
Trenton State   –   6 – 0 – 0
Northeastern   –   6 – 0 – 1
No. 19 Holy Cross   –   8 – 2 – 0
Carnegie Tech
   –   6 – 2 – 0
Hofstra
   –   6 – 2 – 1
Cornell   –   6 – 3 – 0
No. 16 Boston University   –   6 – 4 – 0
Temple   –   6 – 4 – 0
Columbia   –   5 – 3 – 0
Villanova   –   5 – 3 – 0
Fordham   –   5 – 4 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   5 – 4 – 0
Penn   –   5 – 4 – 0
Penn State   –   5 – 4 – 0
Syracuse   –   5 – 4 – 0
Buffalo   –   4 – 4 – 0
Colgate   –   4 – 5 – 0
Dartmouth   –   4 – 5 – 0
Drexel   –   3 – 4 – 0
Harvard   –   3 – 5 – 1
Boston College   –   3 – 6 – 0
Yale   –   2 – 5 – 2
Pittsburgh   –   3 – 7 – 0
Geneva
   –   2 – 5 – 0
Army   –   2 – 7 – 0
Brown   –   2 – 7 – 0
NYU   –   1 – 7 – 0
Tufts   –   0 – 7 – 2
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1951 NYU Violets football team was an American football team that represented New York University as an independent during the 1951 college football season.

In their second season under head coach Hugh Devore, the Violets compiled a 1–7 record, and were outscored 329–79.[1]

The team played two games at Triborough Stadium on Randalls Island in Manhattan. The rest of its schedule was on the road. NYU played no games at its on-campus home field, Ohio Field in University Heights, Bronx.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29 at No. 18 Princeton
L 20–54 12,000 [2]
October 5 at
Merchant Marine
W 21–13 [3]
October 13 Rutgers
L 0–55 6,000 [4]
October 20 at Holy Cross
L 6–53 8,000 [5]
October 27 at Lehigh
L 20–27 6,000 [6]
November 3 at Boston University
L 6–52 5,000 [7]
November 10 at Temple
L 6–34 5,000 [8]
November 24 vs. Fordham
  • Triborough Stadium
  • New York, NY
L 0–41 12,000 [9]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

  1. ^ "1951 New York University Violets Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
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