OT: WS - 1927 Yankees Referrence to Rutgers!

[RutgersMO]

https://1927-the-diary-of-myles-tho...hrig-and-paul-robeson-50d2fbc842bb#.rmmephjxc

Article about Lou Gehrig and his "old college coach".

While he only mentions Columbia (where Paul went to Law School) we all know about Paul's exploits academically / athletically at a then private school now public school celebrating its 250th anniversary.

MO

 

[RUhasarrived]

Baseball should have a day honoring Lou Gehrig.The Yankees shouldn't be allowed to keep him all to themselves.

 

[NorthernKnight]

Very cool...thanks for posting this

 

[Source]

Q: In the 1923 home game with Boston University, Rutgers knocked running back Mickey Cochrane out of the game twice. Cochrane went on to a Hall of Fame catching career with the Philadelphia Athletics and Detroit Tigers. But he wasn’t the first Hall of Famer to step on Neilson Field that year. On April 26, 1923 Yankee scout Paul Krichell sat in the stands and got his first look at a player in the Columbia-Rutgers baseball game. He signed him that weekend and he appeared in a Yankee uniform less than 50 days later. Who was the player?

A: Lou Gehrig - who arrived at Columbia University on a football scholarship in 1921. Against Rutgers he hit two massive home runs into the Delaware & Raritan Canal running parallel to the Raritan River. Home plate at Neilson Field was about where the front door is at Records Hall. The right field line would have gone out to the right side of the middle river dorm.

 

[BoroKnight]

One of the things I love about Rutgers is being able to imagine going to the little school that hugged the river years ago, trudging to Ballantine for basketball and to Neilsen for football and baseball. And no Scott Hall.

 

[RC1978]

One of the things I love about Rutgers is being able to imagine going to the little school that hugged the river years ago, trudging to Ballantine for basketball and to Neilsen for football and baseball. And no Scott Hall.

Some great photos from the old days. For those that never saw what Ballantine Hall looked like they are in this link:

https://muckgers.com/then-and-now-a...-avenue-campus-part-1-9335c35d0142#.loap99hvl

 

[beaced]

https://1927-the-diary-of-myles-tho...hrig-and-paul-robeson-50d2fbc842bb#.rmmephjxc

Article about Lou Gehrig and his "old college coach".

While he only mentions Columbia (where Paul went to Law School) we all know about Paul's exploits academically / athletically at a then private school now public school celebrating its 250th anniversary.

MO

Robeson was the battery mate of Ben Leon who was a teacher and Baseball Coach at Newark South Side High School(now Shabbazz) when I was a student there '38-'42. He spoke of Robeson from time to time.