Behold... The Chanticleer!

[RUClassof67]

It is not my stern, but another member of this board has it.

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This is the one I sent you photos of last summer. It has 3 different images including Old Queens.

 

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I know better than to argue with the Source on RU history. Crew web site claims to be the first. Just a guess they raced against other non collegiate crews in 1864?? And they don’t recognize intermural games as “organized”???
Guess it depends on what your definition of is is

You hit on the big history jackpot conundrum --- what is the exact definitions we are talking about (and what they were talking about) ?

Rutgers student Tunis G. Bergen coxswained the "Zephyr" on November 11, 1865 and beat Dreadnaught on the Raritan River. But the Boating Association is listed as starting in 1867.

So you are correct. What is meant by "organized" ?

 

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This is the one I sent you photos of last summer. It has 3 different images including Old Queens.

Hey thanks, I lost track. THEN YOU should send photos if they ever do another Rutgers Memorabilia story that NJ Advance Media did on New Year's Day. Except Ryan Dunleavy did that story and it was announced today he is leaving Rutgers Football writing to cover the New York Giants.

So congratulations and best of luck to him! Lift up the Chanticleer stein and hoist one for him! (don't really do that, it's too precious an item).

 

[RUClassof67]

Hey thanks, I lost track. THEN YOU should send photos if they ever do another Rutgers Memorabilia story that NJ Advance Media did on New Year's Day. Except Ryan Dunleavy did that story and it was announced today he is leaving Rutgers Football writing to cover the New York Giants.

So congratulations and best of luck to him! Lift up the Chanticleer stein and hoist one for him! (don't really do that, it's too precious an item).

I did send him this picture among some other items he wasn’t able to run in the article. He did include several of my items in the article. And you’re right. We will miss him on the Rutgers beat.

 

[Scarlet_Scourge]

The first ever intercollegiate football game took place at Rutgers in 1869. But, college football exist way before that, but it was typically seniors vs freshmen or something like that. Every school had their own house rules. Some schools banned these games because they got too violent.

 

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The first ever intercollegiate football game took place at Rutgers in 1869. But, college football exist way before that, but it was typically seniors vs freshmen or something like that. Every school had their own house rules. Some schools banned these games because they got too violent.

Truer words never spoken.