1895 Rutgers Queensmen football team

1895 Rutgers Queensmen football
Conference	Independent
Record	3–4
Head coach	William Ayres Reynolds (1st season; first 2 games) H. W. Ambruster (final 5 games)
Captain	William A. Ranney
Home stadium	Neilson Field

1895 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		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
NYU			–					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, losing both.^[1] When Reynolds left to coach the Sewanee team,^[2] Rutgers completed their season under head coach H. W. Ambruster. The Queensmen compiled an overall 3–4 record and were outscored by their opponents, 131 to 98. The team captain was William A. Ranney.^[3]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 28		at Lehigh	Bethlehem, PA	L 0–25		[4]
October 5		at Princeton	University Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	L 0–22		[5]
October 19	4:00 p.m.	Roseville Athletic Club	Neilson Field New Brunswick, NJ	W 38–4		[6][7]
October 23	3:30 p.m.	Swarthmore	Neilson Field New Brunswick, NJ	W 26–12		[8]
October 26		NYU	Neilson Field New Brunswick, NJ	W 16–0		[9]
October 30		at Lafayette	March Field Easton, PA	L 0–52	500	[10]
November 9		at Elizabeth Athletic Club	Elizabeth, NJ	L 6–14		[11]
All times are in Eastern time

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. "2014 Rutgers Football Media Guide". Rutgers University. 2014. Retrieved June 14, 2016.
4. "Lehigh Starts Off Well". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. September 29, 1895. p. 8. Retrieved August 5, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
5. "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.
6. "Rutgers and Roseville". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 20, 1895. p. 10. Retrieved August 5, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
7. "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 .
8. "Rutgers Downs Swarthmore by a Score of 26 to 12". The Daily Times. October 24, 1895. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "Rutgers and New York". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 27, 1895. p. 8. Retrieved August 5, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
10. "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.
11. "Elizabeth, 14; Rutgers, 6". The New York Times. New York, New York. November 10, 1895. p. 3. Retrieved August 5, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .