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This Day in Rutgers Football History - The Election Day Games

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.

OT: RIP Quincy Jones

91 is a good run

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What a life. 26 Grammys despite:

He grew up in gang-riddled Great Depression Chicago. His mother suffered from mental illness and was institutionalized when he was 5, and his father moved the family to Bremerton, Washington.

When he was 11, Jones broke into the Armory recreation center in Bremerton to steal food. Inside, he found an upright piano. As he would later say in interviews, this was the moment that led him from a childhood of petty crime to a life of music.

The collapse has started earlier this season vs. last year

The injuries to our Starters and key players has unfortunately magnified much earlier this year vs. last season.
The 4 game losing streak last season was forgotten after great Bowl victory.
The last 2 games the Team looks totally unorganized and the play calling is mind boggling. Kirk seriously? AK is not the answer. Greg has no clue and his game day Coaching continues to be laughable. Add to this to the loss of many starters and a winning season looks doubtful after today. Getting to 6 wins and a Motor City Bowl even looks like a stretch right now.

Richie - site issue with drop down menu

@Richie O

When I click on Forums at the top of the page, it used to have a drop down menu of ALL of the TKR message boards, but I noticed over the past several days that the Lacrosse board and the Olympic Sports (Baseball/Soccer etc.) board no longer appear in the drop down menu. You can still get to those boards by clicking on All Forums and then clicking on one of the boards, but it's an extra two steps.

I know, this is a First World Problem and ultimately not a big deal, but thought I'd mention it.

Just to pile on, this is the worst LB crew since Roberts and Morris in 2016

I remember 2016 it felt like we played defense with 9 people those guys were that damn bad. I started watching our LBers against Nebraska because a lot of the runs looked weird like guy weren't getting touched. I can even pronounce the kids name but the French guy is really awful and Powell has had a case of senior step back, dude has been a ghost. Moses got toasted on the RB receiving touchdown,

That unit is really bad. Powell is what he is at this point hopefully he shows back up and Dja...Dja not gonna play LB much longer if he doesn't stay locked in a film room the next 2 weeks.
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