Rutgers Homecoming Game Through The Ages

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Rutgers is 52-29-2 in Homecoming Games from 1930-2014. No Homecoming Games were played in 1932 and 1943. The most consecutive Homecoming Games won is 7 (1958-64) and followed the longest losing streak of 5 (1953-57). Rutgers is 12-3 against Lehigh, the most played Homecoming opponent. The largest attendance was for a 37-0 Homecoming shutout by Wisconsin on November 1, 2014 with official attendance of 52,797. The smallest attendance was a 6-0 Springfield victory on October 17, 1936 before an estimated crowd of 4,500.

100 Years Ago:
Rutgers actually had an early 20th century Homecoming Game of sorts except for one minor detail. The game was rarely at home. The November 20, 1915 Daily Home News said, “… the game is a big event for the college men because of the associations always connected with the Stevens game. It is always an occasion when the alumni of the college make it a special point to get back and many attend as much for the reunion of ‘old grads’ as for the game itself.” At Castle Point Field on the Stevens Institute of Technology campus, Rutgers beat Stevens 39-3.

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

Wasn't the Princeton game weekend considered more of a homecoming than "homecoming"? That was my impression for those last couple games

 

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The Princeton game from the 1930s-1970s was the big draw game on the Rutgers schedule. For that reason, it was rarely held at the 23,000 capacity Rutgers Stadium and almost always played at the 45,000+ capacity Palmer Stadium which almost always drew well beyond 23,000.

Of all the Rutgers-Princeton games played, none were the Rutgers Homecoming Game. Homecoming used to be reserved for our old Middle Three rivals - Lafayette or Lehigh into the 1950s. Then it moved around.