1929 NYU Violets football team

1929 NYU Violets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–3
Head coach
Home stadiumOhio Field
Polo Grounds
Yankee Stadium
Seasons
← 1928
1930 →
1929 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 3 Pittsburgh     9 1 0
Colgate     8 1 0
Fordham     7 0 2
Bucknell     8 2 0
No. 11 Penn     7 2 0
Boston College     7 2 1
Villanova     7 2 1
Cornell     6 2 0
Tufts     5 1 2
Harvard     5 2 1
Yale     5 2 1
NYU     7 3 0
Franklin & Marshall     6 3 0
Penn State     6 3 0
Syracuse     6 3 0
Washington & Jefferson     5 2 2
Drexel     6 3 1
Temple     6 3 1
Carnegie Tech     5 3 1
Army     6 4 1
Providence     3 3 2
Brown     5 5 0
Columbia     4 5 0
CCNY     2 4 2
Princeton     2 4 1
Boston University     3 6 0
Vermont     2 7 0
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1929 NYU Violets football team was an American football team that represented New York University as an independent during the 1929 college football season. In their fifth year under head coach Chick Meehan, the team compiled a 7–3 record.[1] Prior to the start of the season, halfback Edwin "Dutch" Hill accidentally shot and killed himself when he took a police officer's gun away from him as a practical joke.[2][3]

  1. ^ "1929 NYU Violets Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
  2. ^ "Hill, N.Y.U. Athlete, Shot Dead in Prank". The New York Times. May 8, 1929.
  3. ^ "Hill's Death Casts Gloom Over N.Y.U.". The New York Times. May 9, 1929.