1895 Rutgers Queensmen football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–4
Head coach
CaptainWilliam A. Ranney
Home stadiumNeilson Field
1895 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Penn    14 0 0
Yale    13 0 2
Princeton    10 1 1
Washington & Jefferson    6 1 1
Harvard    8 2 1
Lafayette    6 2 0
Syracuse    6 2 2
Army    5 2 0
Bucknell    5 2 0
Colgate    4 2 0
Swarthmore    7 4 1
Tufts    8 5 0
Villanova    4 2 0
Wesleyan    6 3 0
Amherst    6 5 0
Brown    7 6 1
Carlisle    4 4 0
Drexel    3 3 1
Penn State    2 2 3
Cornell    3 4 1
Rutgers    3 4 0
New Hampshire    2 3 1
Frankin & Marshall    3 5 1
Boston College    2 4 2
Lehigh    3 6 0
CCNY    2 5 1
Buffalo    1 4 2
Temple    1 4 1
MIT    1 4 0
Trinity (CT)    1 4 0
Massachusetts    1 5 0
Western Univ. Penn.    1 6 0
Geneva    0 5 0

The 1895 Rutgers Queensmen football team represented Rutgers University as an independent during the 1895 college football season. William Ayres Reynolds coached the first two games, going 0-2.[1] When Reynolds left to coach the Sewanee team,[2] Rutgers completed their season under head coach H. W. Ambruster, the Queensmen compiling an overall 3–4 record and were outscored by their opponents, 131 to 98.[3][4] The team captain was William A. Ranney.[5]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28at LehighBethlehem, PAL 0–25[6]
October 5at PrincetonL 0–22[7]
October 194:00 p.m.Roseville Athletic Club
W 38–4[8][9]
October 233:30 p.m.Swarthmore
  • Neilson Field
  • New Brunswick, NJ
W 26–12[10]
October 26NYU
  • Neilson Field
  • New Brunswick, NJ
W 16–0[11]
October 30at Lafayette
L 0–52500[12]
November 9at Elizabeth Athletic ClubElizabeth, NJL 6–14[13]

References

  1. "Athletic Notes". The Targum. New Brunswick, NJ. October 2, 1895. Retrieved August 23, 2023.
  2. "Athletic Notes". The Targum. New Brunswick, NJ. October 16, 1895. Retrieved August 23, 2023.
  3. "1895 Rutgers Scarlet Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 14, 2016.
  4. "Rutgers Yearly Results (1895–1899)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved June 14, 2016.
  5. "2014 Rutgers Football Media Guide". Rutgers University. 2014. Retrieved June 14, 2016.
  6. "Lehigh Starts Off Well". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. September 29, 1895. p. 8. Retrieved August 5, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. "Princeton's Tigers Roast the University of Virginia by 36 to 0 on Catonsville's Gridiron". The Sun (Baltimore). October 10, 1895. p. 6 via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Rutgers and Roseville". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 20, 1895. p. 10. Retrieved August 5, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  9. "Foot Ball Game.—Rutgers . vs the Roseville athletic Club". The Philadelphia Inquirer. New Brunswick, New Jersey. October 21, 1895. p. 1. Retrieved August 5, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  10. "Rutgers Downs Swarthmore by a Score of 26 to 12". The Daily Times. October 24, 1895. p. 1 via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Rutgers and New York". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 27, 1895. p. 8. Retrieved August 5, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  12. "Lafayette Team Wins Easy Game: Defeats Rutgers at Football by a Score of 52 to 0". Chicago Tribune. October 31, 1895. p. 4 via Newspapers.com.
  13. "Elizabeth, 14; Rutgers, 6". The New York Times. New York, New York. November 10, 1895. p. 3. Retrieved August 5, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.


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