1931 St. John's Redmen football team

1931 St. John's Redmen football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–5–1
Head coach
CaptainAlbert Pace[1]
Home stadiumDexter Park
Seasons
← 1930
1965 →
1931 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Bucknell     6 0 3
Colgate     8 1 0
No. 9 Pittsburgh     8 1 0
Cornell     7 1 0
Drexel     7 1 0
No. 7 Harvard     7 1 0
Temple     8 1 1
Columbia     7 1 1
Massachusetts State     7 1 1
Syracuse     7 1 1
Fordham     6 1 2
No. 8 Yale     5 1 2
Army     8 2 1
Franklin & Marshall     6 2 0
Manhattan     4 2 1
Brown     7 3 0
Providence     7 3 0
Penn     6 3 0
NYU     6 3 1
Boston College     6 4 0
Washington & Jefferson     6 4 0
Tufts     3 2 2
Villanova     4 3 2
La Salle     4 4 0
Duquesne     3 5 3
Carnegie Tech     3 5 1
St. John's     3 5 1
CCNY     2 5 1
Boston University     2 7 0
Penn State     2 8 0
Princeton     1 7 0
Vermont     1 8 0
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1931 St. John's Redmen football team was an American football team that represented St. John's College of New York City during the 1931 college football season. It would be the final season of varsity football at St. John's for over four decades, as on April 29, 1931, the board of trustees announced that the football program would be dropped at the conclusion of the 1931 season for financial reasons.[2] Football returned as a student-operated club sport in 1965 and became a varsity program in 1978 before being dropped again in 2002 due to Title IX concerns.[3][4] Led by ninth-year head coach Ray Lynch and quarterback Bob Sheppard, the team compiled a 3–5–1 record. The team played its home games at Dexter Park in Queens.

  1. ^ "St. John's To Play Friday". The New York Times. September 22, 1931.
  2. ^ "St. John's, Because of Expense, to Drop Football and Baseball After This Year". The New York Times. April 30, 1931.
  3. ^ Rhoden, William (October 21, 1983). "St. John's Making a Name in Football". The New York Times.
  4. ^ "St. John's makes cuts based on Title IX". San Antonio Express-News. December 15, 2002.