Election Day was once a Rutgers student holiday. Between 1875 - 1923, Rutgers played 21 Election Day football games. However, Rutgers had set up its first Election Day game at Princeton for November 4, 1873. But then, according to that day’s New Brunswick Daily Times, “After some $50 had been expended by the Rutgers twenty in the purchase of tickets to Princeton, a telegram was received this morning stating cooly that Princeton ‘would play at twelve or not at all.’ Princeton students, in their collective capacity, are tolerably cheeky, for they know that no body of men can leave here before 1:47 p.m.”
After the LSU-Rutgers game of 1923 held at the Polo Grounds, the faculty took its own vote. Election Day would no longer be a student holiday.
Many Americans in history died to create, for you, the awesome act of expressing who you want as elected leaders. Please fulfill that responsibility. Good luck and be safe.