So I Says To Myself, Self, Just What is Rutgers Record On September 24th?

[Source]

And the answer turned out to be 7-4-1 (4-0-1 at home).

W - 9-24-1921 Rutgers 33 Ursinus 0 New Brunswick, NJ Neilson Field
T - 9-24-1932 Rutgers 6 Providence 6 New Brunswick, NJ Neilson Field
W - 9-24-1938 Rutgers 20 Marietta 0 New Brunswick, NJ Neilson Field
W - 9-24-1949 Rutgers 79 Merchant Marine* 6 Piscataway, NJ Rutgers Stadium
L - 9-24-1955 Princeton 41 Rutgers 7 Princeton, NJ Palmer Stadium
W - 9-24-1960 Rutgers 13 Princeton 8 Princeton, NJ Palmer Stadium
L - 9-24-1966 Princeton 16 Rutgers 12 Princeton, NJ Palmer Stadium
W - 9-24-1977 Rutgers 10 Princeton 6 Princeton, NJ Palmer Stadium
L - 9-24-1983 Syracuse 17 Rutgers 13 Syracuse, NY Carrier Dome
W - 9-24-1988 Rutgers 21 (#15/#13) Penn State 16 University Park, PA Beaver Stadium
L - 9-24-1994 **(#5/#5) Penn State 55 Rutgers 27 University Park, PA Beaver Stadium
W - 9-24-2011 Rutgers 38 Ohio 26 Piscataway, NJ High Point Solutions Stadium

 

[Ole Cabbagehead]

4-0-1 eh? So what you're saying...if I'm reading this right... is that we are a heavy favorite to win?

 

[Source]

4-0-1 eh? So what you're saying...if I'm reading this right... is that we are a heavy favorite to win?

Let me finished this vodka club and I'll get back to ya.

 

[FELONIOUSMONK]

Brink back the merchant marines.

 

[Fishky]

Let me finished this vodka club and I'll get back to ya.

You got a lime in that I am in if you do make myself one right now

 

[cicero grimes]

Got stuck in the blue lot trying to get out for over an hour after the Merchant Marine game.

 

[FELONIOUSMONK]

How about Quantico?

 

[NorthernKnight]

And the answer turned out to be 7-4-1 (4-0-1 at home).

W - 9-24-1921 Rutgers 33 Ursinus 0 New Brunswick, NJ Neilson Field
T - 9-24-1932 Rutgers 6 Providence 6 New Brunswick, NJ Neilson Field
W - 9-24-1938 Rutgers 20 Marietta 0 New Brunswick, NJ Neilson Field
W - 9-24-1949 Rutgers 79 Merchant Marine* 6 Piscataway, NJ Rutgers Stadium
L - 9-24-1955 Princeton 41 Rutgers 7 Princeton, NJ Palmer Stadium
W - 9-24-1960 Rutgers 13 Princeton 8 Princeton, NJ Palmer Stadium
L - 9-24-1966 Princeton 16 Rutgers 12 Princeton, NJ Palmer Stadium
W - 9-24-1977 Rutgers 10 Princeton 6 Princeton, NJ Palmer Stadium
L - 9-24-1983 Syracuse 17 Rutgers 13 Syracuse, NY Carrier Dome
W - 9-24-1988 Rutgers 21 (#15/#13) Penn State 16 University Park, PA Beaver Stadium
L - 9-24-1994 **(#5/#5) Penn State 55 Rutgers 27 University Park, PA Beaver Stadium
W - 9-24-2011 Rutgers 38 Ohio 26 Piscataway, NJ High Point Solutions Stadium

I like that PSU victory hidden in there...

 

[Source]

You got a lime in that I am in if you do make myself one right now

That reads like you've made yourself more than one!

 

[mikershoein]

Ursinus - I live down the street from there

 

[Fishky]

That reads like you've made yourself more than one!

Yep that's my problem it's like lays potato chips can't stop at one.

 

[mildone]

You guys talking about drinking in this thread better cut it out. ESPN's gonna do an expose on you. RU football fans enjoy a mixed drink while posting.

Oh the horror! Oh the humanity!

Get your apologies ready.

 

[Fishky]

You are correct I so sorry! Would I get in trouble for telling the media to bite me too?

 

[mildone]

You are correct I so sorry! Would I get in trouble for telling the media to bite me too?

LOL. I wish Hobbs had told everyone to bite him too.

 

[RUsince52]

Brink back the merchant marines.

1st and 2nd team were out to sea and we played the scrubs or was it the subs. Whatever, looks like it didn't matter anyway.

 

[Source]

You guys talking about drinking in this thread better cut it out. ESPN's gonna do an expose on you. RU football fans enjoy a mixed drink while posting. Oh the horror! Oh the humanity! Get your apologies ready.

If it's good enough for Louis... (hic!)...it's good enough for me.

Louis Booz played end and quarterback for Rutgers and won letters from 1906-1908. According to freedictionary.com the origin of the word “booze” is the , “…alteration of obsolete bouse, from Middle English bousen, to drink to excess, from Middle Dutch bsen.” The origin of the word “booze” is often mistakenly credited to E.G. Booz, who was a distiller in the United States in the 19th century. However, as noted above, the term, included with the spelling “booze,” predates E. G. Booz being a manufacturer of alcoholic beverages.” In his Rutgers Special Collection student folder, Louis Booz was very proud of his possession of a family “E.G. Booz Old Cabin” whiskey bottle shaped like a log cabin. The glass bottles of Edmund G. Booz (1824-1870) are collector’s items today. They were alledgedly given out by the campaign staff of William Henry Harrison in the 1840 U.S. Presidential election for his “log cabin campaign.”

 

[Source]

cicero grimes: "Got stuck in the blue lot trying to get out for over an hour after the Merchant Marine game."

RUsince52: "1st and 2nd team were out to sea and we played the scrubs or was it the subs. Whatever, looks like it didn't matter anyway."

Very impressive there are board members who go that far back. Is that true that their first teamers were at sea for this contest? You guys were 2 of the 8,200 who witnessed the September 24, 1949 game that was the largest margin of victory ever for a season opener in Rutgers history:

Rutgers 79
Kings Point (a.k.a. United States Merchant Marine Academy) 6
(original) Rutgers Stadium, Piscataway, NJ

 

[RutgersRaRa]

This is how I heard Source asking his original question:

 

[RUfromSoCal?]

Need to triangulate with 12:00 kick offs and dew point.

 

[REDRICH65]

Surprised there have been only 12 Sept.24 Saturdays in the last century or so. Glad I've been able to make a handful of those victories.

 

[Source]

Surprised there have been only 12 Sept.24 Saturdays in the last century or so. Glad I've been able to make a handful of those victories.

Assuming the 24th falls on a different day of a seven day week each year, then the 24th is on a Saturday every 7 years or so. The football schedule didn't back up into late September until 1921 -- 95 years ago.

So 95 divided by 7 is around 12 years or so for games on a Saturday.

 

[WasatRutgers]

Assuming the 24th falls on a different day of a seven day week each year, then the 24th is on a Saturday every 7 years or so. The football schedule didn't back up into late September until 1921 -- 95 years ago.

So 95 divided by 7 is around 12 years or so for games on a Saturday.

Wouldn't it come up about every five years with leap years?

 

[jmg75]

You guys talking about drinking in this thread better cut it out. ESPN's gonna do an expose on you. RU football fans enjoy a mixed drink while posting.

Oh the horror! Oh the humanity!

Get your apologies ready.

It's ok. I have a safe space I can go to. :)