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Rutgers Ends Grid Season With Perfect Record (1961)

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UCLA recently released a digitized collection of newsreels from the Hearst Corporation from 1929-1967. These are the newsreels shown in theaters before the feature films. Check out Rutgers ends the season beating Columbia at New Brunswick, N.J., and has its first undefeated year in 93 years on the gridiron. The crushing blow comes in the final period, when the Scarlet Knights romp over the Lions for four touchdowns. Final score, 32-19.
https://newsreels.net/v/3bpsnjg

Also in the collection:
THREE AMERICANS RECEIVE NOBEL PRIZE (1952) At a solemn ceremony in Stockholm, King Gustav Adolf of Sweden awards Nobel prizes to this year's six winners in the fields of science and literature. The discoverer of streptomycin, Dr. Selman A. Waksman of Rutgers University, is one of three Americans receiving the $33,000 Nobel prize.

COLLEGIANS WITH MUSCLE (1960)Contestants put in a hard day's work at N.C.A.A. weightlifting championships at University of Maryland. Kenneth Smythe of Pittsburgh, heavyweight division, and Rutgers' Martin Weckstein, 198-1b. division, are two who keep the upper hand.

PEACE CORPS TRAINING PROGRAM GETS UNDER WAY (1961)Eighty-one volunteers of the U. S. Youth Corps begin eight weeks of training at Rutgers University. These pioneers of the President's program for sending qualified American youths to help underdeveloped countries hear an address by Director H. Sargent Shriver before getting their minds and bodies in condition for the arduous tasks ahead.
 
Is that the Great Pierce Fraunheim #23 ( the original #23) with the pick 6 for the final score?
 
UCLA recently released a digitized collection of newsreels from the Hearst Corporation from 1929-1967. These are the newsreels shown in theaters before the feature films. Check out Rutgers ends the season beating Columbia at New Brunswick, N.J., and has its first undefeated year in 93 years on the gridiron. The crushing blow comes in the final period, when the Scarlet Knights romp over the Lions for four touchdowns. Final score, 32-19.
https://newsreels.net/v/3bpsnjg

Also in the collection:
THREE AMERICANS RECEIVE NOBEL PRIZE (1952) At a solemn ceremony in Stockholm, King Gustav Adolf of Sweden awards Nobel prizes to this year's six winners in the fields of science and literature. The discoverer of streptomycin, Dr. Selman A. Waksman of Rutgers University, is one of three Americans receiving the $33,000 Nobel prize.

COLLEGIANS WITH MUSCLE (1960)Contestants put in a hard day's work at N.C.A.A. weightlifting championships at University of Maryland. Kenneth Smythe of Pittsburgh, heavyweight division, and Rutgers' Martin Weckstein, 198-1b. division, are two who keep the upper hand.

PEACE CORPS TRAINING PROGRAM GETS UNDER WAY (1961)Eighty-one volunteers of the U. S. Youth Corps begin eight weeks of training at Rutgers University. These pioneers of the President's program for sending qualified American youths to help underdeveloped countries hear an address by Director H. Sargent Shriver before getting their minds and bodies in condition for the arduous tasks ahead.
Great stuff! Thanks for posting!
 
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