Quiz - RU football related

[rc64]

Interesting story about an RU alum's significant accomplishment:

http://news.rutgers.edu/feature/mic...isease-we-now-call-aids/20151129#.V5yPR1f3arU

Who can tell us the relationship to an important event in Rutgers football history?

ANSWER:

Mike's father was Art Gottlieb, who :

"As a Rutgers University graduate, Class of 1940, he quarterbacked the football team and was a 1938 Associated Press All-East honorable mention. Gottlieb was the hero of Rutgers' 20-18 victory over Princeton in 1938, the game inaugurating Rutgers new stadium. With Rutgers trailing 18-13 and five minutes remaining to play, he threw a fourth down pass to enable Rutgers to win 20-18 and turn back the Tigers for the first time since 1869, when these same two schools inaugurated American football. After completing college, he was signed by the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League and sent to their farm team, the Buffalo Indians of the American Football League where he played the 1940 season. The Olean Times Herald wrote that Art Gottlieb, Rutgers ace, is rated one of the greatest passers in major professional football today and is a constant threat when the Indians move on the offense."

 

[PRH_RU]

Great article..knew the history, not the man behind it or his link to Rutgers!

 

[RUsince52]

Mr. Gottlieb, as we called him, was my physical ed teacher at NBHS and an assistant FB coach for the Zebras. Nice fella who died way to young.
Never really knew about his career at RU or as a pro.

 

[Source]

Original Rutgers Stadium was a Depression-era WPA project. Rutgers Athletic Director George Little lobbied and almost single-handedly got Rutgers its first stadium. Art Gottlieb was on the crew that built Rutgers Stadium years before his 1938 heroics.

 

[rc64]

Mr. Gottlieb was my NBHS phys ed teacher, as well. I went to his day camp (Robin Hood, on Riva Avenue in Milltown) for six years.

The 1938 RU vs. Princeton game was my parents' first date!

 

[RUsince52]

Mr. Gottlieb was my NBHS phys ed teacher, as well. I went to his day camp (Robin Hood, on Riva Avenue in Milltown) for six years.

The 1938 RU vs. Princeton game was my parents' first date!

Funny how pathes can cross even in a city like NB which was a pretty big place in those days. Of course with really very few regional HS' s, kids came to NB from outlaying towns. Nice story.

 

[RAA-1]

All of Piscataway and Franklin Township students attended New Brunswick HS until around 1960.

Also, at one time I heard that East Brunswick students also went there, but not sure this part is accurate.

 

[rc64]

Yes, there were some East Brunswick students at NBHS. I can remember at least one!

 

[REDRICH65]

Most of the early EastBrunswick kids went toSouthRiver H S. I Ilved in Milltown and my brother played for Gottlieb. Never made the RU connection.I went to St. Peters in NB myself.