How Do You Do? Rutgers List of Lifetime New Opponents and Results

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Rutgers Football - 170 Different Opponents 1869-2016 (four this season):

Rutgers adds four new opponents to its lifetime schedule this season. The most varied opponents is thought to be Army who has played an estimated 191 in its history according to the College Football Data Warehouse. It appears Boston College (172) and Rutgers are among the closest to Army. The most new scheduled opponents in any one Rutgers football season was six in 1891.

1) Princeton (1869) Win home
2) Columbia (1870) Win home
3) Yale (1873) Loss away
4) Stevens (1874) W h
5) College of the City of New York (1878) (aka CCNY) W h
6) Pennsylvania (1881) W a
7) Lafayette (1882) W h
8) Wesleyan (1883) L a
9) Lehigh (1884) W h
10) Vineland Athletic Club (1886) W h
11) Williams (1887) L a
12) Ridgefield Athletic Club (1888) (of Albany, NY) W a
13) New York Athletic Club (1890) W a
14) Orange Athletic Club (1890) (of Orange, NJ) W a
15) Crescent Reserves Athletic Club (1890) W h (Brooklyn 2d team of Crescent AC)
16) NYU (1890) W h
17) Manhattan Athletic Club (1890) W h
18) Athletic Club of the Schuykill Navy (1891) (of Philadelphia) W a
19) Navy (1891) L a (known as the United States Naval Cadets and/or Academy
20) Columbia Athletic Club (1891) (of Washington, D.C.) W a
21) Army (1891) W a (known as the West Point Cadets or U.S. Military Academy)
22) New York Law School (1891) W h
23) Manhattan Athletic Club Cherry Diamonds (1891) W h (team within Manhattan AC)
24) New Jersey Athletic Club (1894) (of Bayonne, NJ) W a
25) Crescent Athletic Club (1894) (of Brooklyn) L a
26) North Carolina (1894) W h
27) Virginia (1894) L a
28) Franklin & Marshall (1894) L a
29) Roseville Athletic Club (1895) (of Newark, NJ) W h
30) Swarthmore (1895) W h
31) Elizabeth Athletic Club (1895) (of Elizabeth, NJ) L a
32) Newark Field Club (1896) (of Newark, NJ) W h
33) Ursinus (1896) W h
34) Haverford (1896) W h
35) Irving Club (1896) (of Brooklyn, NY) L a
36) Union (1896) (of Schenectady, NY) L a
37) Knickerbocker Athletic Club (1899) (of New York, NY) L a
38) Manhattan (1901) L h
39) Delaware (1901) L h
40) Fordham (1903) L a
41) University of Maryland (Baltimore) (1904) L h
42) Trinity (1905) L a
43) Seton Hall (1905) L h
44) Villanova (1906) L a
45) Jefferson Medical (1907) (now Thomas Jefferson University of Philadelphia) L h
46) Hamilton (1908) W h
47) Muhlenberg (1908) W h
48) Medico-Chi (1909) T h (Medico-Chirurgical College later folded into UPenn)
49) St. Lawrence (1910) W h (of Canton, NY)
50) Washington College (1910) L a (of Chestertown, MD)
51) Rensselaer (1911) W h
52) Hobart (1912) W h
53) Tufts (1914) W alt h
54) Syracuse (1914) T a
55) Washington & Jefferson (1914) L alt h (of Washington, PA)
56) Albright (1915) W h
57) Springfield (1915) W alt h
58) Hamilton Fish All-Stars (1915) W alt h
59) Washington & Lee (1916) T h (of Lexington, VA)
60) Brown (1916) L a
61) Holy Cross (1916) W alt h
62) West Virginia (1916) T h
63) Dickinson (1916) W h
64) Fort Wadsworth (1917) W h (military team from Staten Island, NY)
65) League Island Marines (1917 W h (4th Naval District military team from Philly)
66) Newport 2nd District Naval Reserves (1917) W alt h (military team from Newport, RI)
67) Pelham Bay Naval Training Station (1918) W h (military team from NYC)
68) Hoboken Naval Training Station (1918) W h (military team from Hoboken, NJ)
69) Penn State (1918) W a
70) Great Lakes Naval Training Station (1918) L alt h (military team from Chicago)
71) New York State Aggies (1919) W h (today’s SUNY – Farmingdale)
72) Boston College (1919) W a
73) Northwestern (1919) W alt h
74) Maryland (1920) W h
75) Virginia Tech (1920) W h
76) Cornell (1920) L a
77) Nebraska (1920) L alt h
78) Detroit University (1920) L a
79) Georgia Tech (1921) L a
80) Notre Dame (1921) L alt h
81) Pennsylvania Military College (1922) W h (today’s Widener University)
82) Bethany (1922) L h
83) Louisiana State (1922) W alt h
84) Bucknell (1922) L h
85) Richmond (1923) W h
86) Boston University (1923) W h
87) Lebanon Valley (1924) W h
88) St. Bonaventure (1924) W h
89) Alfred (1925) W h
90) George Washington (1927) L h
91) St. John’s of Annapolis (1928) W h
92) Catholic (1928) W h
93) Providence (1929) W h
94) John Hopkins (1930) W h
95) Drexel (1931) W h
96) Colgate (1933) L a
97) West Chester State Teachers (1935) L h (West Chester U of Pennsylvnaia)
98) Marietta (1935) W h
99) Ohio Wesleyan (1936) T h
100) Susquehanna (1937) W h
101) Hampden-Sydney (1937) W h
102) Ohio University (1937) L h
103) Vermont (1938) W h
104) Wooster (1939) W h
105) New Hampshire (1939) W h
106) Connecticut (1940) W h
107) Fort Monmouth (1941) W h (military team from Fort Monmouth, NJ)
108) Brooklyn College (1943) L h
109) Army Specialized Training Program (1944) W h (military team at RU)
110) Rhode Island (1945) W h
111) Harvard (1946)W a
112) Western Reserve (1947) W h (today’s Case Western University)
113) Temple (1948) W h
114) U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (1949) W h
115) Dartmouth (1952) L a
116) William & Mary (1954) L h
117) Quantico Marines (1958) L h (of Quantico, VA)
118) Massachusetts (1967) L a
119) Morgan State (1971) W h
120) Air Force (1973) L a
121) Tampa (1973) L a
122) Hawaii (1974) L a
123) Louisville (1976) W h
124) Tulane (1976) W a
125) Arizona State (1978) L alt h or neutral
126) Tennessee (1979) W a
127) Cincinnati (1980) W h
128) Alabama (1980) L alt h
129) Pittsburg (1981) L alt h
130) Auburn (1982) L a
131) Kentucky (1984) L a
132) Florida (1985) T a
133) Duke (1987) W alt h
134) Vanderbilt (1987) L a
135) Michigan State (1988) W a
136) Ball State (1989) T h
137) Akron (1990) W h
138) Maine (1991) W h
139) Miami (1993) L a
140) Kent State (1994) W h
141) Texas (1997) L a
142) Wake Forest (1997) L h
143) California (1999) L a
144) Buffalo (2000) W h
145) Illinois (2005) L a
146) South Florida (2005) L h
147) Howard (2006) W h
148) Kansas State (2006) W neutral
149) Norfolk State (2007) W h
150) Fresno State (2008) L h
151) North Carolina State (2008) W neutral
152) Florida International (2009) W h
153) Texas Southern (2009) W h
154) Central Florida (2009) W neutral alt a
155) North Carolina Central (2011) W h
156) Iowa State (2011) W neutral alt h
157) Arkansas (2012) W a
158) Eastern Michigan (2013) W h
159) Southern Methodist (2013) W a
160) Houston (2013) L h
161) Washington State (2014) W a
162) Michigan (2014) W h
163) Ohio State (2014) L a
164) Wisconsin (2014) L h
165) Indiana (2014) W h
166) Kansas (2015) W h
Overall: 101 wins, 58 losses, 7 ties
Away: 21 wins, 33 losses, 1 tie

167) University of Washington (2016)
168) New Mexico (2016)
169) Iowa (2016)
170) Minnesota (2016)

 

[Scarlet_Scourge]

Crazy to think that we will be playing these schools for the 1st time in our history:

167) University of Washington (2016)
168) New Mexico (2016)
169) Iowa (2016)
170) Minnesota (2016)

 

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Crazy to think that we will be playing these schools for the 1st time in our history:
167) University of Washington (2016)
168) New Mexico (2016)
169) Iowa (2016)
170) Minnesota (2016)

Here's what's crazy when you consider Rutgers has played over 1,300 intercollegiate football games -- first among the FBS schools:

Rutgers has played a grand total of 14 games west of the Mississippi River: 1973 Air Force, 1974 Hawaii, 1976, 1995 and 2012 Tulane, 1997 Texas, 1999 California, 2005 Arizona State at the Insight Bowl in Phoenix, 2006 Kansas State at the Texas Bowl in Houston, 2012 Arkansas, 2013 Fresno State, 2013 Southern Methodist, 2014 Washington State and 2014 Nebraska. The Mississippi River loops south of the Superdome and then bends up 1.5 miles to the east of the Stadium technically making the Superdome north, south, east and west of the Mississippi River.

The game this Saturday at the University of Washington will be Rutgers 15th game ever played west of the Mighty Mississip.

 

[knightfan7]

Immediately post WWI (1918-22) was an interesting time. Played a lot of current Power 5's in PSU, BC, Northwestern, UMd, Va Tech, Nebraska, ND, Ga Tech, and LSU.

 

[Scarlet_Scourge]

Here's what's crazy when you consider Rutgers has played over 1,300 intercollegiate football games -- first among the FBS schools:

Rutgers has played a grand total of 14 games west of the Mississippi River: 1973 Air Force, 1974 Hawaii, 1976, 1995 and 2012 Tulane, 1997 Texas, 1999 California, 2005 Arizona State at the Insight Bowl in Phoenix, 2006 Kansas State at the Texas Bowl in Houston, 2012 Arkansas, 2013 Fresno State, 2013 Southern Methodist, 2014 Washington State and 2014 Nebraska. The Mississippi River loops south of the Superdome and then bends up 1.5 miles to the east of the Stadium technically making the Superdome north, south, east and west of the Mississippi River.

The game this Saturday at the University of Washington will be Rutgers 15th game ever played west of the Mighty Mississip.

At one point, I want to say 1938 but that may not be correct. Rutgers decided that they would only play smaller local schools (Rutgers was still a small college back then) The two exceptions were Princeton and NYU which were two local big time football schools. Columbia took NYU's place on the schedule when NYU dropped Football in the 1950's. But, it wasn't until the 1970's when we started playing non-local teams again. If they played any non local schools before then, I can't think of any.

 

[RUChoppin]

From your post, also of interest...

Number of new teams per year
6 - 1891
5 - 2014, 1920, 1916, 1896, 1894, 1890
4 - 2016, 1922, 1918
3 - 2013, 2009, 1937, 1919, 1917, 1915, 1914, 1895

From 1938 to present, we've only introduced 3 or more new teams in a year 4 times.... and 3 of those seasons have been in the last 4 years.

 

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Rutgers and head coach Foster Sanford were early pioneers in the scheduled "inter-regional" football game. Sanford wanted to get Rutgers in front of area fans by having them play at the Polo Grounds, Ebbetts Field, etc. and in Newark where many alumni lived. So you had Knute Rockne and Notre Dame come play Rutgers in its first foray into the NYC area in its history. The same goes for the other guys on the list at the time. The December 13, 1921 Daily Home News reported 15 intersectional games had been played that season and that an equal number were already arranged for the 1922 season.

 

[RUChoppin]

We'll be adding Purdue in 2017, Texas State in 2018, and UCLA in 2020 (our 16th game west of the Mississippi, unless we manage to make a west coast bowl).

While the game at Minnesota will be technically east (and north) of the Mississippi River (less than a mile from the river on the east bank), it is west of more than 80% of the river's course.

 

[ecojew]

Rutgers and head coach Foster Sanford were early pioneers in the scheduled "inter-regional" football game. Sanford wanted to get Rutgers in front of area fans by having them play at the Polo Grounds, Ebbetts Field, etc. and in Newark where many alumni lived. So you had Knute Rockne and Notre Dame come play Rutgers in its first foray into the NYC area in its history. The same goes for the other guys on the list at the time. The December 13, 1921 Daily Home News reported 15 intersectional games had been played that season and that an equal number were already arranged for the 1922 season.

I also noticed the number of intersectional opponents during that brief span. Did that come about as a result of the Paul Robeson era (which I believe ended right before that)? And what about a fan base? RU was still playing home games at what would essentially be a high school field (till 1938). Was there actually a fan base that would show up at the games in NYC?

Thanks, and thanks as well for providing this interesting list.

 

[Scarlet_Scourge]

Rutgers and head coach Foster Sanford were early pioneers in the scheduled "inter-regional" football game. Sanford wanted to get Rutgers in front of area fans by having them play at the Polo Grounds, Ebbetts Field, etc. and in Newark where many alumni lived. So you had Knute Rockne and Notre Dame come play Rutgers in its first foray into the NYC area in its history. The same goes for the other guys on the list at the time. The December 13, 1921 Daily Home News reported 15 intersectional games had been played that season and that an equal number were already arranged for the 1922 season.

Northwestern, Nebraska and LSU all show up on the schedule during this time. Along the 1st games ever against West Virginia, Cuse and Penn State.

So few fans showed up to the LSU game in NYC that it played a part in killing the series of NYC hosted games.

This was replaced with a yearly game against NYU, which always drew decent crowds. The NYU game was so important that it was the only game they kept besides Princeton when it downsized the schedule. I believe that the NYU and Princeton games made enough money to keep the Rutgers program going for the whole year. Those two games paid for the whole budget.

Rutgers helped introduce college football to NYC when it played Columbia 1 year after playing Princeton for the 1st time.

 

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I also noticed the number of intersectional opponents during that brief span. Did that come about as a result of the Paul Robeson era (which I believe ended right before that)? And what about a fan base? RU was still playing home games at what would essentially be a high school field (till 1938). Was there actually a fan base that would show up at the games in NYC? Thanks, and thanks as well for providing this interesting list.

Certainly Paul Robeson was there but it's probably more accurate to call it the Foster Sanford era. He pushed for top flight opponents, a stadium (before they made repairs to Neilson Field), etc. Did they show up in NYC? Well, yes and no. You would not be impressed with the attendance figures compared to today, but for its time most would be considered okay. First, Rutgers College student body was only 700 or so. The problem was weather. If it was a nice day, a big crowd could be expected. But threatening weather depressed crowd turn out and most fans going to a Rutgers game in NYC or Newark would be walk-up fans. And unfortunately, Rutgers could have had more "luck" in this area.

“The policy of protecting open air events against the weather is growing extensively in this country and many colleges are expected to take this action this season,” according to the September 14, 1920 Daily Home News. West Virginia played Penn State at the Polo Grounds and turned a $20,000 profit. The following week they returned to play Rutgers in a battle of the unbeatens and while 20,000 were in attendance (tying a Rutgers record for a game), only 12,000 were paid admissions. Rutgers profit was $6,000. The November 6, 1923 Targum said of that season's Rutgers-West Virginia game, “Although it rained a little, and the skies were very black, it did not rain that hundreth of an inch necessary for the Athletic Association to collect rain insurance. One of the officials of the U.S. Weather Bureau was on hand and his measurements showed no gain for rain between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Had we collected rain insurance, our own total for the day would have been $10,000.”

Many of the "big" games Rutgers played were tied into Election Day - a Tuesday day off if you were a student at Rutgers. The 1923 Rutgers-LSU games were the last held on Election Day when the Rutgers faculty eliminated Election Day as a student holiday. NYU-RU rivalry games renewed shortly after that and were held at Yankee Stadium because that served as NYU's home field in the 1920s and 1930s.

 

[GeorgeStreet]

We played a medical school that had a football team? Can we schedule them again?

 

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We played a medical school that had a football team? Can we schedule them again?

I'm not sure you'd want to.

Rutgers was forced to take their medicine when they were shut out 27-0 by Jefferson Medical College on November 16, 1907. That Monday’s New Brunswick Home News reported the Rutgers players averaged 163 pounds, less than some high school teams. The doctors averaged 200 pounds and were all around 30 years old with eight or nine years of football experience from their undergraduate years at Lafayette, Western University of Pennsylvania, Swarthmore and theUniversity of Pennsylvania. The next day’s paper said, “Those Jefferson Medical fellows should organize an anti-swearing society. They need some remedy. They gave a rather good exhibition of it on Saturday. Those doctors ought to know better.”

 

[REDRICH65]

This stuff is great. Thanks to all for posting.

 

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And 1879 is the only time Rutgers played the same opponent three times. The team was Stevens Institute of Technology -- two away games and Rutgers first home game with an admission charged.

 

[RUfromSoCal?]

clear east coast bias.......... :)