Wasn't around last week to do a small post prior to the 2015 start. So I thought I'd put it up anyway:
*Rutgers all time record on opening day from 1869-2015 is now 77-59-10. Their all time record for their first home game is now 103-33-10.
*Rutgers Football Lifetime Record 1869-2014: 640 wins (now 641), 621 losses, 44 ties
*Rutgers played 27 different opponents in a row beginning with Virginia Tech in the Russell Athletic Bowl on December 28, 2012 and ending with North Carolina in the Quick Lane Bowl on December 26, 2014. The September 15, 2015 game with Norfolk State broke that record since Rutgers played Norfolk State back on September 7, 2013. The old record was 20 different opponents in a row beginning with Albright College on September 25, 1915 and ending with Fordham on October 27, 1917.
*Rutgers and Louisville are the only known schools to play in three separate football conferences in three consecutive years. They were both in the Big East Conference in 2012 and were still there when the conference was reborn as the American Athletic Conference in 2013. In 2014, Rutgers joined the Big Ten Conference and Louisville joined the Atlantic Coast Conference.
*100 Years Ago This Season: Off his initial 6-3-0 and follow-up 5-3-1 seasons, Coach Foster Sanford established a summer football camp at a farm in Eatontown, NJ between Red Bank and Long Branch. Freshman arrived July 6 and regulars on August 16 in uniform for two hours of tackling and line plunging daily practice followed by talks. His 1915 team went 7-1-0 and led the East with 351 points scored and surrendered only 33. Only Vanderbilt (514) and Oklahoma (371) had more points in the nation. The +318 point difference between points scored and points surrendered in 1915 is still a record as is the 43.9 points per game scored.
*Rutgers all time record on opening day from 1869-2015 is now 77-59-10. Their all time record for their first home game is now 103-33-10.
*Rutgers Football Lifetime Record 1869-2014: 640 wins (now 641), 621 losses, 44 ties
*Rutgers played 27 different opponents in a row beginning with Virginia Tech in the Russell Athletic Bowl on December 28, 2012 and ending with North Carolina in the Quick Lane Bowl on December 26, 2014. The September 15, 2015 game with Norfolk State broke that record since Rutgers played Norfolk State back on September 7, 2013. The old record was 20 different opponents in a row beginning with Albright College on September 25, 1915 and ending with Fordham on October 27, 1917.
*Rutgers and Louisville are the only known schools to play in three separate football conferences in three consecutive years. They were both in the Big East Conference in 2012 and were still there when the conference was reborn as the American Athletic Conference in 2013. In 2014, Rutgers joined the Big Ten Conference and Louisville joined the Atlantic Coast Conference.
*100 Years Ago This Season: Off his initial 6-3-0 and follow-up 5-3-1 seasons, Coach Foster Sanford established a summer football camp at a farm in Eatontown, NJ between Red Bank and Long Branch. Freshman arrived July 6 and regulars on August 16 in uniform for two hours of tackling and line plunging daily practice followed by talks. His 1915 team went 7-1-0 and led the East with 351 points scored and surrendered only 33. Only Vanderbilt (514) and Oklahoma (371) had more points in the nation. The +318 point difference between points scored and points surrendered in 1915 is still a record as is the 43.9 points per game scored.
