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Rutgers and Maryland - A Brief History 1920-2017

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L - 11-12-1904 U. of Maryland (Baltimore) 10 Rutgers 0 New Brunswick, NJ Neilson Field
This was NOT the University of Maryland Terrapins. The Terrapins were then known as the Maryland Agricultural College. Ironically, the Baltimore school eventually became part of the Maryland school system and is enveloped within today's University of Maryland school network. They weren't the Terrapins either. They were the Old Liners. That's okay, though. Rutgers wasn't the Scarlet Knights until 1955, for the previous 30 years we were the Chanticleer.

W - 10-2-1920 Rutgers 6 Maryland 0 New Brunswick, NJ Neilson Field
Nearly 20 Rutgers players lost to transfers, injuries, financial drop outs, "stolen players", etc. Foster Sanford declared it his "Phantom Football Team" and goes 2-7-0. The two wins? Maryland, Virginia Tech

L - 10-1-1921 Maryland 3 Rutgers 0 New Brunswick, NJ Neilson Field
Longest drop kick to win a game in the East that year, 40 yards, is the only score

L - 10-10-1925 Maryland 16 Rutgers 0 Philadelphia, PA Franklin Field
and you thought the Yankee Stadium game was the first away from either team's home field

W - 10-21-1939 Rutgers 25 Maryland 12 Piscataway, NJ Rutgers Stadium
Both football teams attend invitation dance by the Scarlet Barb Council after the game. Maryland grad, Charlie "King Kong" Keller telegraphed RSVP regrets about dance. He had just won the first of five World Series rings with the Yankees.

L - 11-21-1940 Maryland 14 Rutgers 7 Baltimore, MD Baltimore Stadium
It's an upset. Maryland QB/kicker Joe Murphy drop-kicked the final point.. last known time in an RU game

W - 11-1-1941 Rutgers 20 Maryland 0 Piscataway, NJ Rutgers Stadium
5th victory in 6 tries on way to 7-2-0 season before largest crowd of year (20,000)

L - 10-10-1942 Maryland 27 Rutgers 13 Baltimore, MD Baltimore Stadium
Rutgers and Maryland played at Baltimore Stadium long before the Orioles and Colts.

L - 9-29-2007 Maryland 34 (#10/#10) Rutgers 24 Piscataway, NJ Rutgers Stadium
Off the 2006 Texas Bowl win and 3-0 with a #10 poll ranking, Maryland and Cincinnati bring back to back losses.

W - 9-26-2009 Rutgers 34 Maryland 13 College Park, MD Byrd Stadium
4th win in five tries to start the season. Wound up 9-4 and beat Central Florida in the St. Petersburg Bowl Presented by Beef O' Brady (yes, that actually was the official name that year)

W - 11-29-2014 Rutgers 41 Maryland 38 College Park, MD Byrd Stadium
It's a wild one and Rutgers wins!

L - 11-28-2015 Maryland 46 Rutgers 41 Piscataway, NJ High Point Solutions Stadium (formerly Rutgers Stadium
It's a wild one and Maryland wins! (Hey, who changed the name of the stadium?)

L - 11-26-2016 Maryland 31 Rutgers 13 College Park, MD Maryland Stadium (formerly Byrd Stadium)
Maryland started 4-0 and finished 6-6 and then loses to Boston College in the Quick Lane Bowl. (Hey, who changed the name of the stadium?)

11-4-2017 Rutgers vs. Maryland Piscataway, NJ High Point Solutions Stadium
 
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Rutgers wasn't the Scarlet Knights until 1955, for the previous 30 years we were the Chanticleer.

Thanks Source. Question related to the above....what was Rutgers prior to Chanticleers/1925? Was it just Scarlet by any chance, due to wearing that color to differentiate from the other team?
 
Thanks Source. Question related to the above....what was Rutgers prior to Chanticleers/1925? Was it just Scarlet by any chance, due to wearing that color to differentiate from the other team?

Scarlet Knights (1955-today) and Chanticleer (around 1925-spring 1955) are the only official names Rutgers has had. Chanticleer never really caught on and by the late 1920s, newspapers also used the nickname Queensmen (after RU's original name Queen's College). But that was never official (like referring to the Yankees as the Bronx Bombers).

At the start of college football, newspapers broke up the monotony of using the school name in articles by citing the school color/s if they had one. So Rutgers was sometimes identified as the "Scarlet" as in the "Scarlet eleven" or the "Scarlet team." For several schools, the color nickname stuck like the Harvard Crimson (they were originally magenta !) or the NYU Violet (not the flower). Dartmouth left behind the (1920s-1970s) nickname of Indians and are now the Big Green. Syracuse Orangemen returned to being the Orange. So to summarize:

Scarlet, unofficial, pre-1925
Chanticleer, official, 1925-55
Queensmen, unofficial, about late 1920s-60s
Scarlet Knights, official, 1955-today
 
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