1918 Rutgers Queensmen football team

The 1918 Rutgers Queensmen football team was an American football team that represented Rutgers University as an independent during the 1918 college football season. In their sixth season under head coach George Sanford, the team compiled a 5–2 record, shut out its first four opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 192 to 78.[1][2]

1918 Rutgers Queensmen football
Rutgers' All-American end Paul Robeson
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–2
Head coach
Home stadiumNeilson Field
Seasons
← 1917
1919 →
1918 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Bucknell  600
Princeton  300
Holy Cross  200
Army  100
Buffalo  610
Columbia  510
Syracuse  510
Pittsburgh  410
Boston College  520
Rutgers  520
Franklin & Marshall  210
Geneva  420
Swarthmore  420
Harvard  210
Fordham  421
Villanova  320
Penn  530
Dartmouth  330
Lehigh  440
Washington & Jefferson  220
New Hampshire  221
Lafayette  340
Brown  230
Tufts  230
Penn State  121
Vermont  011
Drexel  010
NYU  040

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 28Ursinus
W 66–0[5]
October 19Pelham Bay Naval Station
  • Neilson Field
  • New Brunswick, NJ
W 7–0[6]
October 26Lehigh
  • Neilson Field
  • New Brunswick, NJ
W 39–0[7]
November 5Brickley's Naval Transport Service
  • Neilson Field
  • New Brunswick, NJ
W 40–0[8][9]
November 9at Penn StateState College, PAW 26–3[10]
November 16vs. Great Lakes NavyL 14–54[11]
November 30vs. SyracuseL 0–21[12]

References