1922 Trinity Blue Devils football team

1922 Trinity Blue Devils football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–2–1
Head coach
CaptainTom Neal
Seasons
← 1921
1923 →
1922 Southern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
West Virginia     10 0 1
Tennessee Docs     7 0 1
Western Kentucky State Normal     9 1 0
Trinity (NC)     7 2 1
VMI     7 2 0
Richmond     6 2 1
West Tennessee State Normal     5 2 3
Navy     5 2 0
Delaware     6 3 0
William & Mary     6 3 0
Georgetown     6 3 1
Marion     5 4 1
East Tennessee     5 4 0
Marshall     5 4 0
Roanoke     5 4 0
Texas Mines     5 4 0
Loyola (LA)     4 3 1
Spring Hill     4 4 0
Sam Houston Normal     3 4 0
Wake Forest     3 5 2
Davidson     2 6 2
Catholic University     2 6 0
George Washington     2 6 0
Middle Tennessee State Normal     2 6 0
Mississippi Normal     2 6 0
Louisville     2 7 0
Birmingham–Southern     1 6 1
Erskine     0 8 0

The 1922 Trinity Blue Devils football team was an American football team that represented Trinity College (later renamed Duke University) as an independent during the 1922 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Herman Steiner, the team compiled a 7–2–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 156 to 57. The team shut out five opponents: Guilford (43–0), Hampden–Sydney (27–0), Davidson (12–0), Wake Forest (3–0), and Wofford (26–0). Tom Neal was the team captain.[1][2] According to the university, this was the first season in which the team was called the Blue Devils (having been previously known unofficially as the Blue and White). The name was introduced by The Trinity Chronicle, the school's student newspaper, and slowly gained acceptance over the following years.[3]

  1. ^ "1922 Duke Blue Devils Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved March 8, 2019.
  2. ^ "Duke Football 2016 Media Guide" (PDF). Duke University. 2016. p. 95. Retrieved March 8, 2019.
  3. ^ "The Story of the Blue Devil". Duke Athletics. Archived from the original on February 9, 2022. Retrieved December 17, 2022.