1903 Rutgers Queensmen football team

1903 Rutgers Queensmen football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–4–1
Head coach
CaptainAlfred Ellet Hitchner
Home stadiumNeilson Field
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1903 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton   –   11 – 0 – 0
Yale   –   11 – 1 – 0
Columbia   –   9 – 1 – 0
Dartmouth   –   9 – 1 – 0
Geneva   –   9 – 1 – 0
Holy Cross   –   8 – 2 – 0
Temple   –   4 – 1 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   8 – 2 – 0
Lehigh   –   9 – 2 – 1
Harvard   –   9 – 3 – 0
Penn   –   9 – 3 – 0
Army   –   6 – 2 – 1
Carlisle   –   6 – 2 – 1
Amherst   –   7 – 3 – 0
Lafayette   –   7 – 3 – 0
Cornell   –   6 – 3 – 1
Colgate   –   4 – 2 – 1
Penn State   –   5 – 3 – 0
Swarthmore   –   6 – 4 – 0
Brown   –   5 – 4 – 1
Syracuse   –   5 – 4 – 0
Fordham   –   1 – 1 – 0
Frankin & Marshall   –   5 – 5 – 1
Buffalo   –   4 – 4 – 0
Rutgers   –   4 – 4 – 1
Delaware   –   4 – 4 – 0
Villanova   –   2 – 2 – 0
Bucknell   –   4 – 5 – 0
Vermont   –   4 – 5 – 0
Tufts   –   5 – 8 – 0
Wesleyan   –   3 – 6 – 1
Springfield Training School   –   1 – 3 – 1
NYU   –   2 – 5 – 0
New Hampshire   –   2 – 6 – 1
Pittsburgh College   –   1 – 5 – 1
Western U. Penn.   –   1 – 8 – 1

The 1903 Rutgers Queensmen football team represented Rutgers University as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In their first season under head coach Oliver D. Mann, the Queensmen compiled a 4–4–1 record and were outscored by their opponents, 110 to 94. The team captain, for the second consecutive year, was Alfred Ellet Hitchner.[1]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 3at FordhamBronx, NYL 0–15[2]
October 10at Delaware
L 0–5[3][4]
October 14Manhattan College
W 8–6[5]
October 17at UrsinusCollegeville, PAL 0–40[6]
October 24Haverford
  • Neilson Field
  • New Brunswick, NJ
L 6–18[7]
October 31Stevens
  • Neilson Field
  • New Brunswick, NJ
W 36–6[8]
November 7at Stevens
W 26–5[9]
November 14NYU
  • Neilson Field
  • New Brunswick, NJ
W 18-15[10]
November 21Franklin & Marshall
  • Neilson Field
  • New Brunswick, NJ
T 0–0[11]

References

  1. ^ "2014 Rutgers Football Media Guide". Rutgers University. 2014. Retrieved June 14, 2016.
  2. ^ "Fordham, 15; Rutgers, 0". The New York Times. New York, New York. October 4, 1903. p. 18. Retrieved October 18, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  3. ^ "Rutgers Meet Delaware Today". The Evening Journal. Wilmington, Delaware. October 10, 1903. p. 2. Retrieved October 18, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. ^ "Rutgers Defeated". The Morning News. Wilmington, Delaware. October 12, 1903. p. 5. Retrieved October 18, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  5. ^ "Bloody Time On Neilson Field". The Daily Home News. New Brunswick, New Jersey. October 15, 1903. p. 1. Retrieved October 18, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. ^ "Easy for Ursinus, Rutgers no match for opponents, loses forty to nothing". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 18, 1903. Retrieved December 2, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Victory for Haverford, Quakers impresively defeat Rutgers by score of 18 to 6". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 25, 1903. Retrieved December 2, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Football gossip". The Daily Home News. November 2, 1903. Retrieved December 2, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Rutgers won again from Stevens, its old rival". The Daily Home News. November 9, 1903. Retrieved December 2, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Rutgers beats N.Y.U. 18 to 15". The New York Times. November 15, 1903. p. 10. Retrieved February 3, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "No score made by either team". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 22, 1903. Retrieved December 2, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.


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