Rutgers vs Washington- Jefferson. 11-28 1914 Polo Grounds NY
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LET ME BE ONE OF THE FIRST TO SAY IT " WHERE WAS beaced sitting for that game"?
Even back then they couldn't get fans to leave the tailgates in time for kickoff.
I hear the ticket office said 35,000 tickets were sold.
I hear the ticket office said 35,000 tickets were sold.
Washington & Jefferson was a football "power" during the World War and won 20-13 at Brush Stadium (a.k.a. Polo Grounds IV) before an estimated crowd of 10,000 to 12,000 - the largest attendance of a Rutgers football game up to that time. Rutgers finished 5-3-1 in Foster Sanford's second season at the helm.
The December 5, 1914 Daily Home News ranked Rutgers at ninth. John Herbert of the New York Times and Mack Whelan of the New York Globe both ranked Rutgers at #8 in the East. The November 30, 1914 Daily Home News reported Whelan wrote, “Rutgers made a remarkably fine showing this fall and was one of the best drilled teams in fundamentals in the country. Furthermore, the New Brunswick progress was not marred by the sacrifice of the scholastic standards of the old Dutch institution.”
How did Ken Rendall get his nickname during the 1918 season? In the October 2, 1936 Marietta game football program, Alfred Garrett remembered, “We played a game at the Polo Grounds with Washington & Jefferson (on November 28, 1914). That was quite a fracas – the day Kenneth Rendall got his nose ‘bent’ and became ‘Thug’ Rendall.”
The December 5, 1914 Daily Home News ranked Rutgers at ninth. John Herbert of the New York Times and Mack Whelan of the New York Globe both ranked Rutgers at #8 in the East. The November 30, 1914 Daily Home News reported Whelan wrote, “Rutgers made a remarkably fine showing this fall and was one of the best drilled teams in fundamentals in the country. Furthermore, the New Brunswick progress was not marred by the sacrifice of the scholastic standards of the old Dutch institution.”
How did Ken Rendall get his nickname during the 1918 season? In the October 2, 1936 Marietta game football program, Alfred Garrett remembered, “We played a game at the Polo Grounds with Washington & Jefferson (on November 28, 1914). That was quite a fracas – the day Kenneth Rendall got his nose ‘bent’ and became ‘Thug’ Rendall.”
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