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1869 Rutgers Queensmen football team
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1869 Rutgers Queensmen football Independent 1–1 None William J. Leggett Co-national champion (Davis) none
The 1869 Rutgers Queensmen football team represented Rutgers University in the 1869 college football season. The team finished with a 1–1 record and was retroactively named the co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2017/FBS.pdf National Poll Champions National Collegiate Athletic Association 2017 NCAA Division I Football Records 110 December 31, 2017 They played Princeton two times, splitting the series one game each.1869 Rutgers Scarlet Knights Schedule and Results Sports Reference LLC SR/College Football December 31, 2017 https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/rutgers/1869-schedule.html The team had no coach, and was captained by William J. Leggett.2014 Rutgers Football Media Guide Rutgers University 2014 June 14, 2016 https://issuu.com/ruathletics/docs/2014rutgersfootballfactbook_web
Schedule
November 6 3:00 p.m. w Princeton College Field New Brunswick, NJ rivalry 6–4 New-Jersey https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98408809/the-new-york-times/ The New York Times New York, New York November 9, 1869 8 March 26, 2022 Newspapers.com November 13 l y Princeton Princeton, NJ 0–8 November 1869 I 8 5 The Foot-Ball Match Princeton vs. Rutgers https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/59711/ The Targum New Brunswick, New Jersey
Roster
The Rutgers roster consisted of: Frusciano Thomas J. Rutgers University Football Vault: The History of the Scarlet Knights October 25, 2008 Whitman Pub LLC 0794825737143 years ago today: Rutgers team of mostly classicists beat Princeton in first-ever intercollegiate football game https://rutgersclassics.com/2012/11/06/143-years-ago-today-rutgers-team-of-mostly-classicists-beat-princeton-in-first-ever-intercollegiate-football-game/ November 6, 2012 Rutgers University Classics Department
Class of 1870
D.D. Williamson, BSc., Later architect
Class of 1871
Ezra Doane DeLamater, Lawyer.
Stephen George Gano, BSc, Civil engineer.
William James Hill, Left Rutgers 1870 for New Brunswick Seminary; later clergyman.
WS Lasher, BSc., Engineer.
George Edgar Pace, Lawyer.
CL Pruyn, BSc., Manufacturer.
John Henry Wyckoff, Clergyman and professor of theology.
Class of 1872
Thomas Wallace Clemens, Lawyer.
Edward D. Gillmore, Lawyer.
John Warne Herbert Jr., BSc., Lawyer.
George Hall Large, Lawyer.
William James Leggett, Lawyer.
Charles Henry Steele, Physician.
George Henry Stevens, Lawyer.
John Alfred Van Neste, Clergyman.
Class of 1873
Frederick Ernest Allen, Clergyman.
Madison Monroe Ball, Teacher.
George Riley Dixon, Lawyer and superintendent of schools.
Daniel Trimble Hawxhurst, Bookkeeper.
Peter V. Huyssoon, Manager, teachers’ agency.
William Henry McKee, Clergyman.
Abram Irving Martine, Clergyman.
Claudius Rockefeller, Lawyer, Captain of the 1872 Rutgers football team.
Jacob Outcalt Van Fleet, Clergyman.
George Sidney Willits, Transferred to US Naval Academy; later Rear Admiral.
Charles Seymour Wright, Clergyman.
See also
List of historically significant college football games
List of the first college football games in each U.S. state
References
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