tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18101253635973970142024-03-12T22:45:19.611-05:00Beat Visitor<b>R</b> House <i>(a.k.a. "The Birthplace of College Football")</i> <br>is a very very very nice houseTrue Blue Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304569696691885677noreply@blogger.comBlogger688125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810125363597397014.post-88076814235968459282021-12-23T18:10:00.001-05:002021-12-23T18:10:13.656-05:00Well, this was unexpected...Did <i>one single</i> person predict a bowl game for the Scarlet Knights after the season-ending loss to the Terrapins? Let alone the <a href="https://scarletknights.com/news/2021/12/23/football-accepts-invite-to-taxslayer-gator-bowl.aspx">Gator Bowl</a>?<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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See You Saturday at <span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b>R </b></span>House. </div></div><br /> <p></p>True Blue Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304569696691885677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810125363597397014.post-89106327694596562152021-09-21T13:57:00.000-05:002021-09-21T13:57:41.179-05:00Keep Calm (despite today's surprises) and Chop Michigan<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i67yX6uKssU/VCeIBsInfVI/AAAAAAAACGI/g7nTi9G8sgwTswdWnFjLyOA0xpjRXOvugCPcBGAYYCw/s700/Keep-Calm-and-Chop-Michigan.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="600" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i67yX6uKssU/VCeIBsInfVI/AAAAAAAACGI/g7nTi9G8sgwTswdWnFjLyOA0xpjRXOvugCPcBGAYYCw/w171-h200/Keep-Calm-and-Chop-Michigan.png" width="171" /></a></div><br />I guess we shouldn't have expected the week between Rutgers' 3-0 non-conference season and Saturday's trip to begin running the Big Ten gauntlet at The Big House to be completely uneventful, but who had "<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/bigten/2021/09/21/max-melton-chris-long-rutgers-football-suspended-arrest-paintball-gun/5799911001/" target="_blank">Max Melton and Chris Long will be suspended after an incident incident involving a paintball gun</a>" on their bingo card? <p></p><p>I'm sure I wasn't the only Scarlet Knights fan wondering about which brother would make the biggest impact during the Wolverines' game, Bo Melton on offense or Max on defense, because both have been stellar so far.</p><p>This is a coaching challenge that Greg Schiano did not need during this week, but I hope he's able to fully instill the Keep Calm and Chop Michigan message with the non-suspended members of the team before Saturday at 3:30 in Ann Arbor.</p>True Blue Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304569696691885677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810125363597397014.post-38108422831189044402021-09-18T23:31:00.001-05:002021-09-18T23:31:30.804-05:00And when the smoke cleared......from the firing of the cannon on Saturday afternoon, Rutgers was 3-0 to start the 2021 season.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<div><br /></div><div>With Greg Schiano back at the helm, I know I'm having more fun as a Rutgers football fan than I have in years. And there's still a chance of ending with a .500 record in the Big Ten for the first time since joining the conference in 2014.</div><div><br /></div><div>I just wish I could be watching live at Rutgers Stadium. Last week's Michigan OT game would have been a blast (and may have turned out differently in a loud stadium).</div>True Blue Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304569696691885677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810125363597397014.post-48028536342001990502020-10-24T15:37:00.001-05:002020-10-24T15:37:07.470-05:00The Schiano 2.0 Era is off to a great start!On this day when Greg Schiano announced his return in East Lansing, Michigan, with a 38-27 win over the Michigan State Spartans, I couldn't help thinking about his last game as Rutgers' coach, with a bowl win over Iowa State at Yankee Stadium that Greg dedicated to Eric LeGrand.<br>
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In its ongoing recognition of the 100th anniversary of his graduation (as valedictorian) in 1919, <a href="https://news.rutgers.edu/paul-robeson-football-star/20190313#.XIr95PZFzIV" target="_blank"><i>Rutgers Today</i> just published this short history of Paul Robeson's stellar football career on the banks </a>that is well worth clicking on and taking ten minutes to read.</div>
True Blue Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304569696691885677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810125363597397014.post-44009028450060737032017-11-06T10:38:00.000-05:002017-11-06T13:42:31.236-05:00It All Began on This Date in 1869.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Today's the 148th anniversary of the first intercollegiate football game on November 6, 1869, so I'm<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9vQvHineOJE/SkaW8N3_a0I/AAAAAAAAA0E/jXYKhgBgFmk/s1600-h/IMG_3430.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352131168437234498" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9vQvHineOJE/SkaW8N3_a0I/AAAAAAAAA0E/jXYKhgBgFmk/s320/IMG_3430.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 240px;" /></a> reposting this transcript again. This appeared in a bicentennial anthology of Rutgers stories published in 1966.<br />
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This report of that first "foot-ball" game between Rutgers and Princeton was reported in the <span style="font-style: italic;">Targum</span> in 1869, and reprinted in <span style="font-style: italic;">Aloud to Alma Mater</span>, edited by George Lukac (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1966, pages 67-69).<br />
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<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">O</span></span>n Saturday, November 6, <st1:place st="on">Princeton</st1:place> sent twenty-five picked men to play our twenty-five a match game of foot-ball. The strangers came up in the ten o’clock train, and brought a good number of backers with them.<span style="font-size: 0;"> </span>After dinner, and a stroll around the town, during which stroll billiards received a good deal of attention, the crowd began to assemble at the ball ground, which, for the benefit of the ignorant, we would say, is a lot about a hundred yards wide, extending from College Avenue to Sicard Street. Previous to calling the game, the ground presented an animated picture. Grim looking players were silently stripping, each one surrounded by sympathizing friends, while around each of the captains was a little crowd, intent upon giving advice, and saying as much as possible.<span style="font-size: 0;"> </span>The appearance of the <st1:place st="on">Princeton</st1:place> men was very different from that of our own players. They were almost without exception tall and muscular, while the majority of our twenty-five are small and light, but possess the merit of being up to much more than they look.</div>
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Very few were the preliminaries, and they were quickly agreed upon.<span style="font-size: 0;"> </span>The <st1:place st="on">Princeton</st1:place> captain, for some reason or other, gave up every point to our men without contesting one.<span style="font-size: 0;"> </span>The only material points were that <st1:place st="on">Princeton</st1:place> gave up “free kicks,” whereby a player, when he catches the ball in the air, is allowed to kick it without hindrance. On the other hand, our practice of “babying” the ball on the start was discarded, and the ball was mounted, in every instance, by a vigorous “long kick.”</div>
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To describe the varying fortunes of the match, game by game, would be a waste of labor, for every game was like the one before.<span style="font-size: 0;"> </span>There was the same headlong running, wild shouting, and frantic kicking. In every game the cool goal-tenders saved the Rutgers goal half a dozen times; in every game the heavy charger of the Princeton side overthrew everything he came in contact with; and in every game, just when the interest in one of those delightful rushes at the fence was culminating, the persecuted ball would fly for refuge into the next lot, and produce a cessation of hostilities until, after the invariable “foul,” it was put in straight.</div>
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True Blue Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304569696691885677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810125363597397014.post-11511768096144096602017-10-14T14:55:00.000-05:002017-10-14T14:55:51.257-05:00It's been too long since a B1G win<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It was finally fun to update the schedule on the Beat Visitor sidebar today.
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True Blue Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304569696691885677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810125363597397014.post-90346554412120555022017-09-30T15:07:00.001-05:002017-09-30T15:07:01.581-05:00Which state are we in?I hope it seems like a long drive back to Ohio.<div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-V1BXEvX4DHE/Wc_5ZPxRj5I/AAAAAAAADGo/HFXoNEY_5qsNn_rdpR2rYXGfHNDb_NwYQCHMYCw/s640/blogger-image--503186149.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-V1BXEvX4DHE/Wc_5ZPxRj5I/AAAAAAAADGo/HFXoNEY_5qsNn_rdpR2rYXGfHNDb_NwYQCHMYCw/s640/blogger-image--503186149.jpg"></a></div></div>True Blue Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304569696691885677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810125363597397014.post-40061928670968481152017-09-28T07:54:00.000-05:002017-09-28T07:55:17.843-05:00Those Buckeyes Were Just Copying the Scarlet Knights (and not only by copying the color scarlet)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
There's a great article by Ryan Dunleavy on NJ.com this morning with the title, "<a href="http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/index.ssf/2017/09/did_rutgers_not_ohio_state_start_helmet_stickers_i.html">Did Rutgers, not Ohio State, start helmet stickers in college football? Here's proof</a>." Not only is it worth reading this piece about large stars added to the front of Rutgers helmets for interceptions in 1961 in its own right, but the timing is perfect with the Buckeyes coming to town in two days.<br />
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True Blue Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304569696691885677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810125363597397014.post-37519905801369426432017-09-21T10:29:00.000-05:002017-09-21T10:29:25.088-05:00Huck the Fuskers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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True Blue Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304569696691885677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810125363597397014.post-6319281965609498742017-09-16T22:02:00.000-05:002017-09-16T22:02:53.017-05:00The Losing Streak Is Over<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The only two games at Rutgers Stadium that I missed last year were the two wins, so it was great to be there today for the 65-0 win over Morgan State.<br>
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True Blue Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304569696691885677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810125363597397014.post-58995431599918918882017-09-08T10:08:00.001-05:002017-09-08T10:11:26.659-05:00Game Two Tomorrow!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Tomorrow is the day for the Scarlet Knights to start fulfilling the promise that they demonstrated last Friday night against the University of Washington.<br />
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I'm a fan of another green team that bears the nickname "Eagles" and I'm an even bigger admirer of actual eagles, so this week's poster was not the easiest for me to make, but tomorrow afternoon there will be no mixed feelings when Rutgers and Eastern Michigan kick off at 3:30.<br />
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True Blue Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304569696691885677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810125363597397014.post-72363177910642584712016-11-18T20:23:00.000-05:002016-11-18T20:28:37.391-05:00There is still time to save the season...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A whole host of disappointments of the 2016 Rutgers Football season will be forgiven and forgotten if the Scarlet Knights come out on top of The (top ten) Team From Pennsylvania visiting <span style="color: red; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><b>R</b></span> House tomorrow night.</div>
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True Blue Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304569696691885677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810125363597397014.post-12446611670194479972016-11-05T06:54:00.001-05:002016-11-05T06:54:17.013-05:00Hoosier Daddy?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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True Blue Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09304569696691885677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810125363597397014.post-61794957228114747442016-10-06T08:53:00.000-05:002016-10-06T08:54:18.371-05:00Wolverines have never won in The Birthplace...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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