Off his initial 6-3-0 and follow-up 5-3-1 seasons, Head coach Foster Sanford established a summer football camp at a farm in Eatontown, NJ between Red Bank and Long Branch. Rutgers freshman arrived July 6 and regulars on August 16 in uniform for two hours of tackling and line plunging daily practice followed by talks. His 1915 team went 7-1-0 and led the East with 351 points scored and surrendered only 33. Only Vanderbilt (514) and Oklahoma (371) had more season points. By far, it was Rutgers greatest season up until that time. The 387 points racked up by Greg Schiano’s 2006 team topped that figure and it took a 13th game - the Texas Bowl – to do it. The 2007 squad surpassed that with a 52-point Bowl game and has the current record of 436 points. The +318 point difference between points scored and points surrendered in 1915 is still a record as is the 43.9 points per game scored.
2015 Rutgers Pre Season Start - 100 Years Ago You'd Have Been Late
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Cool stuff! Ever get nostalgic about Eastern teams we used to play, pre and during Big East days ? I mean,last year we won the Lambert Trophy for the first time and only played Navy, Ped State and Maryland to earn it. Given the new scheduling rules, I hope we can fill the few openings with the likes of WVU, Sewercuse, Temple, UCant, BC, etc.
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Long before AP (1936) and the Coaches Poll (UP in 1950), the first attempt at ranking teams came from individual newspapers and they usually only looked at the teams within their viewing region meaning it was rare to find a national ranking by any one newspaper. But in 1915, the largest New Jersey newspaper did issue its own football season rankings:
The November 20, 1915 Daily Home News said the Newark Evening News ranked the 7-1-0 Rutgers team at #12. They were: 1. Harvard 2. Navy 3. Carlisle 4. Colgate 5. Yale 6. Princeton 7. Dartmouth 8. Washington & Jefferson 9. Pittsburgh 10. West Point. 11. Tufts 12. Rutgers 13. Pennsylvania or Cornell.
Long before AP (1936) and the Coaches Poll (UP in 1950), the first attempt at ranking teams came from individual newspapers and they usually only looked at the teams within their viewing region meaning it was rare to find a national ranking by any one newspaper. But in 1915, the largest New Jersey newspaper did issue its own football season rankings:
The November 20, 1915 Daily Home News said the Newark Evening News ranked the 7-1-0 Rutgers team at #12. They were: 1. Harvard 2. Navy 3. Carlisle 4. Colgate 5. Yale 6. Princeton 7. Dartmouth 8. Washington & Jefferson 9. Pittsburgh 10. West Point. 11. Tufts 12. Rutgers 13. Pennsylvania or Cornell.
Cornell defeated Havard 10-0 in 1915 handing them their first loss in 50 games. The Big Red finished the year 9-0 earning their first National Championship. http://www.ncaa.com/history/football/fbs
Paul Robeson's Freshman season.. 1915. 100th Anniversary of Robeson's arrival on the banks.
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While the only loss of the season to Princeton would signal a temporary end of a rivalry until 1933, Rutgers would say goodbye forever to another in-state rival according to the November 22, 1915 Daily Home News, “In the cold gray gloaming of Saturday, the Stevens football eleven closed its 1915 season with another defeat at the hands of their ancient foe from the banks of the Raritan. But to Stevens, that 39 to 3 defeat had all the appearance of a victory. Such a sight as was witnessed after the game on the Castle Point Field scene of many previous thrilling battles between representatives elevens of two institutions that have been rivals as long as the oldest alumni can remember, is rare. As the last whistle sounded, the Stevens undergraduates marched out gleefully on the field and carried (John A.) “Buck” Rogers, the Stevens coach, on their shoulders in a feeling of exultation. This in spite of the 39-3 defeat in what Stevens still considers the most important struggle of the season.” The all time series ended with a 29-12-7 record in favor of Rutgers.
