Rutgers Football and the Curse of the Chicago Cubs

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The curse continues. Rutgers loses their next game following the clinching of any World Series game won by the Chicago Cubs. Oh, how much longer must we endure this curse?:weary:

[P.S. - Yes... kidding.... small joke.. not being serious. No need to over react.]

October 12, 1907 Cubs over Tigers 4-1 at Detroit,MI
October 12, 1907 Lehigh 16 Rutgers 6 at New Brunswick, NJ

October 14, 1908 Cubs over Tigers 4-1 at Detroit, MI
October 24, 1908 Haverford 9 Rutgers 5 at Haverford, PA

November 2, 2016 Cubs over Indians 4-3 at Cleveland, OH
November 5, 2016 Indiana 33 Rutgers 27 at Piscataway, NJ

 

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The curse continues. Rutgers loses their next game following the clinching of any World Series game won by the Chicago Cubs. Oh, how much longer must we endure this curse?:weary:

[P.S. - Yes... kidding.... small joke.. not being serious. No need to over react.]

October 12, 1907 Cubs over Tigers 4-1 at Detroit,MI
October 12, 1907 Lehigh 16 Rutgers 6 at New Brunswick, NJ

October 14, 1908 Cubs over Tigers 4-1 at Detroit, MI
October 24, 1908 Haverford 9 Rutgers 5 at Haverford, PA

November 2, 2016 Cubs over Indians 4-3 at Cleveland, OH
November 5, 2016 Indiana 33 Rutgers 27 at Piscataway,quote} YOU MAY BE ON TO SOMETHING.The CUBS WILL NOT REPEAT SO '17 COULD BE A Good RU Year.

 

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One of those pitching stars on those earlier Cub teams must have been seen by my grandfather and my father,as they went to many games of the Newark Peppers of the Federal League in 1915 in Harrison.

Ed Reulbach pitched a doubleheader shutout for one of those Cub teams.He was buried in Montclair.

 

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Now the Cleveland Indians.... those are the guys you want to see win the World Series:

October 11, 1920 Indians over Dodgers 5-2 (best of 9)
October 16, 1920 Rutgers 19 Virginia Tech 6 at New Brunswick

October 11, 1948 Indians over Braves 4-2 at Boston
October 16, 1948 Rutgers 22 Princeton 6 at Princeton