1901 NYU Violets football team

The 1901 NYU Violets football team was an American football team that represented New York University as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In their first year under head coach W. H. Rorke, the team compiled a 4–3–1 record.

1901 NYU Violets football
Conference	Independent
Record	4–3–1
Head coach	W. H. Rorke (1st season)
Home stadium	Ohio Field
Seasons ← 1900 1902 →

1901 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Harvard			–					12	–	0	–	0
Yale			–					11	–	1	–	1
Cornell			–					11	–	1	–	0
Dartmouth			–					10	–	1	–	0
Massachusetts			–					9	–	1	–	0
Princeton			–					9	–	1	–	1
Syracuse			–					7	–	1	–	0
Geneva			–					7	–	1	–	1
Holy Cross			–					7	–	1	–	1
Army			–					5	–	1	–	2
Western U. of Penn			–					7	–	2	–	1
Lafayette			–					9	–	3	–	0
Swarthmore			–					8	–	2	–	2
Washington & Jefferson			–					6	–	2	–	2
Frankin & Marshall			–					7	–	3	–	1
Penn			–					10	–	5	–	0
Buffalo			–					4	–	2	–	0
Columbia			–					8	–	5	–	0
Fordham			–					2	–	1	–	1
Penn State			–					5	–	3	–	0
Bucknell			–					6	–	4	–	0
Temple			–					3	–	2	–	0
NYU			–					4	–	3	–	1
Pittsburgh College			–					3	–	3	–	0
Tufts			–					6	–	6	–	1
Vermont			–					5	–	5	–	1
Carlisle			–					5	–	7	–	1
Dickinson			–					4	–	6	–	0
Brown			–					4	–	7	–	1
Villanova			–					2	–	3	–	0
Drexel			–					2	–	5	–	1
Colgate			–					2	–	5	–	0
Boston College			–					1	–	8	–	0
Lehigh			–					1	–	11	–	0
New Hampshire			–					0	–	6	–	0
Rutgers			–					0	–	7	–	0

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
October 5	at St. Paul's School	Garden City, NY	W 16–0	[1]
October 9	at Princeton	University Field Princeton, NJ	L 0–23	[2]
October 19	St. Stephen's	Berkeley Oval New York, NY	W 40–0	[3]
October 26	at Rutgers	Neilson Field New Brunswick, NJ	W 16–0	[4]
November 5	Bellevue Medical College	Berkeley Oval New York, NY	L 0–11	[5]
November 9	at Trinity (CT)	Trinity Field Hartford, CT	L 5–16	[6]
November 16	RPI	Ohio Field Bronx, NY	W 46–5	[7]
November 23	Union (NY)	Berkeley Oval New York, NY	T 11–11	[8]