The Historically Closest Sport of the Rutgers-Princeton Series

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Football is the most famous but baseball is the closest.

Final: Princeton 9 Rutgers 7 and the Tigers snap the Scarlet Knights 16- game winning streak.

The Rutgers-Princeton football game always took up most of the rivalry air between the two schools in sports. However, the REAL competition between the two is in baseball. Rutgers first intercollegiate sports event wasn't the Rutgers-Princeton football game of 1869 but the Rutgers-Princeton baseball game of 1866. Here is the 156 years - all time standings - between the two schools:

1866-2022:

76 Rutgers wins
75 Princeton wins
3 ties

 

[ScarletKid2008]

Wow. Can’t believe they took the L to Princeton. Was getting used to just winning every game !

Focus in and get those big ten wins this weekend !!! Conference title in the crosshairs for this squad !

 

[goru1869]

Football is the most famous but baseball is the closest.

Final: Princeton 9 Rutgers 7 and the Tigers snap the Scarlet Knights 16- game winning streak.

The Rutgers-Princeton football game always took up most of the rivalry air between the two schools in sports. However, the REAL competition between the two is in baseball. Rutgers first intercollegiate sports event wasn't the Rutgers-Princeton football game of 1869 but the Rutgers-Princeton baseball game of 1866. Here is the 156 years - all time standings - between the two schools:

1866-2022:

76 Rutgers wins
75 Princeton wins
3 ties

So is RU the birthplace of College Baseball?

 

[RU Husky]

So is RU the birthplace of College Baseball?

That would be Amherst v Williams in 1859

 

[RUnTeX]

So is RU the birthplace of College Baseball?

The story of the first-ever college baseball game, in 1859

Two historic college baseball games were played in 1859. Which was the true first college baseball game is up for discussion.

www.ncaa.com

 

[RutgersMO]

That would be Amherst v Williams in 1859

But the birthplace of Baseball is in NJ @ Elysian Field ?
June 19, 1846, in Hoboken, New Jersey: the "New York Nine" defeated the Knickerbockers, 23–1.

MO