Photo of 1898 Rutgers player (captain?) E.H. Rapalje...middle right

[Townsend]

 

[Source]

- Ernest H. Rapalje, Rutgers Class of 1900
- played right halfback and full back
- Rutgers football letter winner 1896-99 but not a captain
- was assistant football manager during 1898
- pitcher on the Rutgers baseball team
- a helluva nice guy

 

[76Scarlet]

There is a guy from Drake University.................isn't that Ash's alma mater?

 

[RUnTeX]

Interesting...what is this entire photo of? Seems like a random group with four midwest guys and then the Hampden Sydney guy in the middle and the Rutgers man.

 

[Townsend]

Interesting...what is this entire photo of? Seems like a random group with four midwest guys and then the Hampden Sydney guy in the middle and the Rutgers man.

It's a page from the 1898 Spaulding college football guide. Spaulding published college football guides in the late 1890s. The guides feature a boatload of team photos and seemingly random individual photos. This page was on eBay and I bought it because I collect IU football stuff and this page had a photo of the 1898 IU captain.

 

[Source]

Most of us know the "Block R" currently in use by Rutgers since the Greg Schiano era. Notice the "R" with the "stubby" right foot that was in use in the 1890s. You can also see it in the decades to follow.

 

[Scarlet_Scourge]

Most of us know the "Block R" currently in use by Rutgers since the Greg Schiano era. Notice the "R" with the "stubby" right foot that was in use in the 1890s. You can also see it in the decades to follow.

Correct, The Block R is nothing new, Rutgers had a block R since the 1800's and even used it on the Helmets in 1966. It was re-designed during the Greg Schiano era, and Rutgers has been using that re-design ever since.

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

- Ernest H. Rapalje, Rutgers Class of 1900
- played right halfback and full back
- Rutgers football letter winner 1896-99 but not a captain
- was assistant football manager during 1898
- pitcher on the Rutgers baseball team
- a helluva nice guy

In The Scarlet Letter of 1897 (free view on google play books) you can see EH Rapajale was a sub on the 1896 team. On page 34/111... and on pages 61-62 is a great story about the Canon... and on 67-68 (156-157 as printed on the pages themselves) a story on the origin of the name "Targum".