What were the original colors of Rutgers before scarlet?
For over a year, orange, white and blue (mimicking the Dutch tri-color flag) represented Rutgers and the students hated the colors wanting scarlet or cherry-red. On May 17, 1869 at Kirkpatrick Chapel, the students voted in scarlet. In 1900, the Rutgers administration officially sanctioned it.
What is the cumulative record of the Rutgers football team when playing on Friday the 13th?
Trick question. Rutgers has never played a football game on any Friday the 13th in its 146 year history.
What professional sports team sent its general manager to the College Avenue Gym area to see if they could hold pre-season training there?
Ed Barrow and manager Joe McCarthy of the New York Yankees checked out the Gym in 1943 when WWII fuel restrictions limited the local MLB teams to spring training around the area. The NYY eventually settled on Asbury Park for Yankees spring training in 1943.
How many different amounts of players has Rutgers played at least one regulation game with? (Remember, the first game was with 25 men at a time and today it's 11.)
The Rutgers football team has played regulation games with 25, 20, 15, 11 and 9 man teams in its 146 year history. No one else has done that.
Who was the first major league baseball team to play at Rutgers and when?
Manager John McCloskey telegrammed manager Harry Shine of the local, semi-pro Brunswicks that they wished to come down after a doubleheader with the Giants and play Brunswick on Neilson Field at Rutgers on October 2, 1906. St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Fred Beebe was the winning pitcher in a 9-3 victory over the Brunswicks. A record crowd of 2,000 witnessed it.