For those of you looking for 1976 Rutgers Basketball Undefeated T-shirts,the downtown New Brunswick Rutgers Bookstore has them here--http://rutgers.bncollege.com/webapp...=10001&langId=-1&storeId=58552&topCatId=40510
Rutgers 1976 Undefeated Basketball Shirts
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I have a football program from 1977 showing an actual picture of The Lewis Brown Athletic Center. It's finished outside but still dirt around it. Going on 40 years old, unbelievable.
Without Googling, I believe both. And that has been a sports.trivia thing... for decades we were the only major college sports team to have BOTH men's bball and football go undefeated during the regular season (not counting postseason) in the same calendar year. Not sure if we still can claim that.
Semantics We were undefeated in basketball in the regular season. Lost both Final 4 games (back when there were consolation games). Heckuva team - fun to watch. Great football team too. That was an exciting time for Rutgers sports.
It was the 75-76 BBTeam which was considered undefeated because the tournament is 76, thus undefeated in 76. FB went undefeated in the 76 season with no Bowl game until The 78 Garden State Bowl against ASU. The 1961 undefeated team ( ranked 17th ) turned down a bowl invite, I believe it was the Tangerine Bowl. In those days, you literally had to be chosen by a bowl committee because we couldn't compete against PSU, Pitt, Syracuse or BC and their schedules and there wasn't nearly the amount of bowls available for at large teams. Our conference ( Mid Atlantic ) was off the radar unless you did something spectacular and we didn't play any big schools. It was really a reach to be invited to a bowl game.
In 76 our football team was 11-0. We turned down an invite to the Independence Bowl to play McNeese State. We were ranked #17 that season and we thought we should be offered a tougher opponent.
I went to the Tulane game that year and good thing it was inside. Game night was rain and windy and earlier in the week temps were in the 30' s. Taxi driver said it was their coldest in 20 yrs. Took a boat cruise and had to stay inside. Besides winning the game my other big memory was seeing a freshman kicker on Tulane named Ed Murray. Lefty, soccer style, no problem hitting 55 traders. The food was great and most of the sightseeing made for a super trip.
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