1925 NYU Violets football team

1925 NYU Violets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–2–1
Head coach
Home stadiumOhio Field
Seasons
← 1924
1926 →
1925 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 1 Dartmouth     8 0 0
Fordham     9 1 0
No. 4 Colgate     7 0 2
No. 10 Pittsburgh     8 1 0
Syracuse     8 1 1
No. 11 Lafayette     7 1 1
Springfield     6 1 1
Princeton     5 1 1
Holy Cross     8 2 0
Penn     7 2 0
Army     7 2 0
Boston College     6 2 0
Cornell     6 2 0
NYU     6 2 1
Villanova     6 2 1
Washington & Jefferson     6 2 1
Carnegie Tech     5 2 1
Yale     5 2 1
Bucknell     7 3 1
Columbia     6 3 1
Muhlenberg     6 3 1
Temple     5 2 2
Harvard     4 3 1
Franklin & Marshall     5 4 0
Brown     5 4 1
Penn State     4 4 1
Buffalo     3 4 1
St. John's     3 4 0
Lehigh     3 5 1
Vermont     3 6 0
CCNY     2 5 0
Providence     2 7 0
Rutgers     2 7 0
Boston University     1 5 0
Manhattan     1 6 1
Tufts     1 6 0
Drexel     1 7 0
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1925 NYU Violets football team was an American football team that represented New York University as an independent during the 1925 college football season. In its first season under head coach Chick Meehan, the team compiled a 6–2–1 record.

Fullback Frank Briante starred on offense, scored 60 points, and was selected at the end of the season to be captain of the 1926 team.[1] He later played two years in the National Football League.[2]

  1. ^ "Briante Elected N.Y.U. Captain for 1926". New York Daily News. November 24, 1925. p. 36 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Frank Briante". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 25, 2019.