Fordham at Rutgers
Saturday, October 7, 1922 Share
Rutgers beat Fordham 20–15. It was their third meeting; after it, Rutgers led the series 2–1.
FinalHigh 71°F, low 59°F, 0.5 in. of rain
In the newspapers

Norwich bulletin, Connecticut, October 11, 1922, page 3 (results column)
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FOOTBALL NOTES “ChetH Bolles, former all around star at Trinity, played left halfback for Dartmouth Saturday in it’s 19 to victory over Maine. Bolles remained in the lineup for the entire game. Barney Fallon, brother of the re- nowned Mickey” who is following the ways of learning at Fordham, played the entire game against Rut- gers at right tackle. Rutgers won by a 20 to 15 count. The East took the first of the inter sectional clashes of the 1922 season when the cadets turned back Kansas by 13 to score Iowa, which will meet Yale in the bowl Saturday for the coaching cham pionship of the Jones family, had an easy time with Knox Saturday, win ming by a 6l to score. Knox is1not unknown here, the basketball team playing Wesleyan and Trinity last winter. “Bil’ Kelly, fullback and center for Trinity two years ago, played the full game against the University of the South for the University of Pennsyl- vania Saturday. He played Jeff guard. C. c N. Y, which retired from col 1egiate football about ten years ago after a crushing defeat by Trinity returned to the game Saturday an6 was defeated to by St. Stephens Columbia was the only one of the New York elevens to come through Saturday, conouering Amherst, while Fordham lost to Rutgers, c. c. N. Y to Syracuse, N. Y. U. to Syracuse and Stevens from over in Hoboker was held to a scoreless tie by Haver. ford. Harvard had the easiest time O any of what used to be the “Bis Three” Holy Cross being easy pick. ing for Captain Buell’s eleven. Nortt Carolina threw real scare into Olt Eli and Virginia kept Princeton iron crossing it’s goal line. Georgia Teck’s Golden Tornado which has been something of a zephyl since Heisman lefE, struck Tartar il Davidson Saturday, winning only 1! l to 0 after hard battle The Praying Colonels” of Old Cen ter had little difficulty in ridins roughshod over Mississippi Saturday the final count being 55 to 0. The big upset in New England | football seems to have been the de l feat of Vermont by Springfield, al | though the conquest of Bowdoin b, | Wesleyan was entirely unsuspected In Robinson the Wesleyan clever | seems to have another Ted” Boote who more than lived up to the con notation of his name as far as fiels
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Rutgers 54% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Fordham–Rutgers gameRutgers leads 7–3 in 10 meetings, counting the seven since this game.
| 1954 | Fordham 13, Rutgers 7 | |
| 1953 | Fordham 40, Rutgers 13 | |
| 1951 | Rutgers 13, Fordham 7 | |
| 1949 | Rutgers 35, Fordham 14 | |
| 1948 | Rutgers 28, Fordham 19 | |
| 1947 | Rutgers 36, Fordham 6 |
Around this game
Fordham
- Next gamevs. LehighOct. 20, 1923
- SeasonFordham in 1922
- ProgramFordham history and records
Rutgers
- Next gameat LehighOct. 14, 1922
- SeasonRutgers in 1922
- ProgramRutgers history and records

