Stevens Institute football, 1872–1879

The Stevens Institute football program, 1872–1879 represented Stevens Institute of Technology of Hoboken, New Jersey in American football during the school's first decade of college football. Highlights of these early years include:

  • On November 23, 1872, Stevens played its first intercollegiate football game, losing to Columbia by a 6–0 score.
  • On October 18, 1873, Stevens won its first intercollegiate game, defeating by a 6–1 score. The 1873 team went on to win three of four games with additional victories over the City College of New York and the New Jersey Athletic Club.
  • The 1874 team also compiled a 3–1 record with victories over Columbia, Rutgers, and NYU. The team's only loss was to national champion Yale.
  • The 1879 team was the first Stevens team to play more than four games. It played eight games and compiled a 1–2–5 record, including four scoreless ties.

1872

1872 Stevens football
ConferenceIndependent
Record0–1
Head coach
  • None
1872 college football records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton   –   1 – 0 – 0
Yale   –   1 – 0 – 0
Rutgers   –   1 – 1 – 1
Columbia   –   1 – 2 – 1
Stevens   –   0 – 1 – 0

The 1872 Stevens football team represented Stevens Institute of Technology in the 1872 college football season.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
November 23at ColumbiaNew York, NYL 0–6

[1]

1873

1873 Stevens football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–1
Head coach
  • None
1873 college football records
Conf. Overall
Team   W   L     W   L  
Princeton   –   1 – 0 – 0
Harvard   –   1 – 0 – 1
Washington and Lee   –   4 – 0 – 0
Stevens   –   3 – 1 – 0
Yale   –   2 – 1 – 0
Columbia   –   2 – 1 – 0
Rutgers   –   1 – 2 – 0
McGill   –   0 – 1 – 1
Eton   –   0 – 1 – 0
CCNY   –   0 – 1 – 0
New Jersey AC   –   0 – 1 – 0
NYU   –   0 – 1 – 0
Princeton Seminary   –   0 – 1 – 0
VMI   –   0 – 1 – 0

The 1873 Stevens football team represented Stevens Institute of Technology in the 1873 college football season.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 18NYUW 6–1
October 25ColumbiaL 1–2
November 1CCNYW 6–0
November 26New Jersey A.C.W 2–0[2]

1874

1874 Stevens football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–1
Head coach
  • None
1874 college football records
Conf. Overall
Team   W   L     W   L  
Yale   –   3 – 0 – 0
Princeton   –   2 – 0 – 0
Harvard   –   1 – 1 – 0
Tufts   –   1 – 0 – 0
Stevens   –   3 – 1 – 0
Rutgers   –   1 – 3 – 0
Columbia   –   1 – 5 – 0
NYU   –   0 – 1 – 0
McGill   –   0 – 1 – 0

The 1874 Stevens football team represented Stevens Institute of Technology in the 1874 college football season.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
October 31ColumbiaHoboken, NJW 4–2
November 1at RutgersNew Brunswick, NJW 6–0
November 10NYUHoboken, NJW 6–0
November 18at YaleNew Haven, CTL 0–6

[4]

1875

1875 Stevens football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–3
Head coach
  • None
1875 college football records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard   –   4 – 0 – 0
Princeton   –   2 – 0 – 0
Columbia   –   4 – 1 – 1
Rutgers   –   1 – 1 – 1
Yale   –   2 – 2 – 0
Stevens   –   3 – 3 – 0
Tufts   –   0 – 1 – 0
NYU   –   0 – 1 – 0
Wesleyan   –   0 – 1 – 0
Bates   –   0 – 1 – 0
Canada All-Stars   –   0 – 2 – 0
CCNY   –   0 – 3 – 0

The 1875 Stevens football team represented Stevens Institute of Technology in the 1875 college football season.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
October 17NYUHoboken, NJW 5–0
October 24at RutgersNew Brunswick, NJL 0–6
October 31CCNYHoboken, NJW 6–0
November 4ColumbiaHoboken, NJL 1–2
November 11CCNYHoboken, NJW 6–0
November 20at PrincetonPrinceton, NJL 0–6

[5]

1876

1876 Stevens football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–2
Head coach
  • None
Home stadiumgrounds at foot of Ninth Street, St. George's Cricket Club
1876 college football records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale   –   3 – 0 – 0
Rutgers   –   1 – 0 – 0
Harvard   –   3 – 1 – 0
Princeton   –   3 – 2 – 0
Stevens   –   2 – 2 – 0
CCNY   –   1 – 1 – 0
Penn   –   1 – 2 – 0
Columbia   –   1 – 3 – 0
Canada All-Stars   –   0 – 1 – 0
McGill   –   0 – 1 – 0
Northwestern   –   0 – 1 – 0
Philadelphia All-Stars   –   0 – 1 – 0
NYU   –   0 – 2 – 0

The 1876 Stevens football team was an American football team that represented Stevens Institute of Technology in the 1876 college football season. The team compiled a 2–2 record in games against Rutgers, Columbia, and NYU.[6]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 31NYU
W 8–0[7]
November 1at RutgersL 2–3
November 11Columbia
  • grounds at foot of Ninth Street
  • Hoboken, NJ
W 5–3[8]
November 29Columbia
  • St. George's Cricket Club
  • Hoboken, NJ
L 0–4200–300[9]

1877

1877 Stevens football
ConferenceIndependent
Record1–3
Head coach
  • None
1877 college football records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale   –   3 – 0 – 1
Princeton   –   2 – 0 – 1
Amherst   –   1 – 0 – 0
Harvard   –   3 – 1 – 0
Columbia   –   2 – 2 – 0
Rutgers   –   1 – 2 – 0
Stevens   –   1 – 3 – 0
Tufts   –   0 – 3 – 0

The 1877 Stevens football team was an American football team that represented Stevens Institute of Technology in the 1877 college football season. The team compiled a 1–3 record.[10]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 27Rutgers
W 4–1[11]
November 13Columbia
  • St. George's Cricket Club grounds
  • Hoboken, NJ
L 0–1
November 14at RutgersNew Brunswick, NJL 0–5
November 24at YaleNew Haven, CTL 0–13[12]

1878

1878 Stevens football
ConferenceIndependent
Record1–1–2
Head coach
  • None
Home stadiumSt. George's Cricket Club grounds
1878 college football records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton   –   6 – 0 – 0
Yale   –   4 – 1 – 1
Columbia   –   0 – 0 – 1
CCNY   –   1 – 1 – 0
Stevens   –   1 – 1 – 2
Harvard   –   1 – 2 – 0
Penn   –   1 – 2 – 1
Rutgers   –   1 – 2 – 1
Amherst   –   1 – 3 – 0
Brown   –   0 – 1 – 0
Swarthmore   –   0 – 1 – 0

The 1878 Stevens football team was an American football team that represented Stevens Institute of Technology in the 1878 college football season. The team compiled a 1–1–2 record and was outscored by a total of four goals to one.[13] The team played its home games at the St. George's Cricket Club grounds in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultSource
October 262:34 p.m.at Princeton
L 0–4[14]
October 29at RutgersNew Brunswick, NJT 0–0[15]
November 5Columbia
T 0–0[16]
November 9Rutgers
  • St. George's Cricket Club grounds
  • Hoboken, NJ
W 1–0[17][18]

Game summaries

Princeton

On October 26, at 2:30 p.m., the Princeton football team played a football match against Stevens Institute of Technology and (with some participation from members of the St. George's Cricket Club). The game was played between teams of 15 players per side on the Princeton University grounds before a large crowd, including many carriages parked in the space outside the ropes. Princeton scored four goals and six touchdowns. Stevens did not score.[14]

The lineup for Stevens Institute was as follows: Spofford, Rosenbury, Dilworth, Clarke, Leib, Rosenberger, Denton, Dashill and Suydam as forwards; Merritt, Connover, and Herrick as halfbacks; and Hysop, Pracay, and Moore as backs. Merritt was the Stevens team captain.[14]

Rutgers

On October 30, the team from Stevens Institute played a match against the Rutgers College team in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The game ended in a scoreless tie with neither side scoring a goal or touchdown.[15]

Columbia

On November 5, Stevens was scheduled to play a match against the team from the College of the City of New York (CCNY) at St. George's Cricket Club grounds in Hoboken, New Jersey. The CCNY club did not show up, but a group of nine students from Columbia arrived and agreed to a "scratch game". Sides were chosen among the available players by Herrick of Stevens and Burton of Columbia. Burton's team scored three touchdowns, but neither team scored a goal.[16]

Rutgers

On November 9, at 3:00 p.m., Stevens hosted Rutgers for a return match on the St. George's Cricket Club grounds. Neither team scored a touchdown or goal in the first or second halves. The sides agreed to an additional 10 minutes. Reisenberger recovered the ball beyond Rutgers' goal line for a touchdown, and Suydam kicked the goal giving Stevens the victory by one goal to none.[17]

The lineup for Stevens included Muller, Gowen, Ruh, Macauley, and Hasbrouck at the forward positions, Howe, See and Randolph at the halfback positions, and Voorhees and Norris as backs. Randolph was the team captain.[17]

1879

1879 Stevens football
ConferenceIndependent
Record1–2–5
Head coach
  • None
Home stadiumSt. George's Cricket Club grounds
1879 college football records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton   –   4 – 0 – 1
Yale   –   3 – 0 – 2
Massachusetts   –   1 – 0 – 0
Michigan   –   1 – 0 – 1
Haverford   –   1 – 0 – 1
Harvard   –   2 – 1 – 2
Penn   –   2 – 2 – 0
Amherst   –   1 – 1 – 0
Navy   –   0 – 0 – 1
McGill   –   0 – 0 – 1
Toronto   –   0 – 0 – 1
Stevens   –   1 – 2 – 5
Rutgers   –   1 – 2 – 3
Pennsylvania Military   –   0 – 1 – 1
NYU   –   0 – 2 – 1
Racine   –   0 – 1 – 0
Swarthmore   –   0 – 1 – 0
Columbia   –   0 – 3 – 2

The 1879 Stevens Ducks football team was an American football team that represented Stevens Institute of Technology in the 1879 college football season. The team compiled a 1–2–5 record and was outscored by a total of 12 to 6.[19] The team played its home games at the St. George's Cricket Club grounds in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 9Stevens alumni
T 0–0
October 25Columbia
  • St. George's Cricket Club grounds
  • Hoboken, NJ
T 0–0
November 8at Princeton
L 0–7[20]
November 11Rutgers
  • St. George's Cricket Club grounds
  • Hoboken, NJ
L 0–1
November 23at RutgersNew Brunswick, NJT 3–3
November 25at RutgersNew Brunswick, NJW 3–1
December 6Stevens alumni
  • St. George's Cricket Club grounds
  • Hoboken, NJ
T 0–0
December 13Rutgers
  • St. George's Cricket Club grounds
  • Hoboken, NJ
T 0–0

References

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  14. ^ a b c "Football: Princeton Against the Stevens Institute -- The Hoboken Men Get a Very Bad Thrashing". New York Daily Herald. October 27, 1878. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ a b "Sporting Notes". The News Journal. October 31, 1878. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ a b "Football". New York Daily Herald. November 6, 1878. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ a b c "Foot-Ball in Hoboken: An Exciting Game Between Teams From Rutgers College and the Stevens Institute". The New York Times. November 10, 1878. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ "The Stevens Institute Team Defeat the Boys From Rutgers College by One Goal to Nothing". New York Daily Herald. November 10, 1878. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
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  20. ^ "The Battle Of The Ball". The Sun. New York, New York. November 9, 1879. p. 6. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
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