The 1918 Rutgers Queensmen football team was an

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team that represented

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as an independent during the

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. In their sixth season under head coach George Sanford, the team compiled a 5–2 record, shut out its first four opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 192 to 78.

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played at the end position for the 1917 and 1918 Rutgers teams, was selected by

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as a first-team All-American in both 1917 and 1918, and was inducted into the

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in 1995. Coach Sanford was inducted into the

in 1971.

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Rutgers Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was a ...

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