Alright class, please take out your paper and pencil and get ready for a pop quiz. Answers posted Thursday.
1) In 1890, Charles Esselstyn became the only known Rutgers player to:
A. Play every position in one game
B. Play for and against Rutgers in the same season
C. Punch out a referee
2) HOF Coach Charley Caldwell coached Princeton from 1945-1956 and was 9-2 in games against Rutgers (best overall in the series). He was also:
A. The man who discovered Walter Camp (The Father of American Football) dead in his hotel bed.
B. The pitcher who knocked out Wally Pipp whose position was assumed by Lou Gehrig.
C. The man who had the idea for the College Football Hall of Fame.
3) In 1921, the Targum ran an item that would be the forerunner of the “Mugrat” fake newspaper issued somewhere during a Rutgers school year. What was the name of this column?
A. Bughouse Targum
B. Numbskull News
C. 23 Skidoo Targum News
4) Before Rutgers Stadium, Neilson Field located next to the Commons on main campus was the second home of Rutgers football. The field hosted its first Major League baseball club when this team came down in the final week of the 1906 season to play the New Brunswick Base Ball Club.
A. Brooklyn Dodgers
B. New York Highlanders (a.k.a. Yankees)
C. St. Louis Cardinals
5) In 1932, he teamed up with Ted Husing to broadcast the Columbia-Middlebury football game on WABC-AM in New York:
A. Paul Robeson
B. Foster Sanford
C. Ozzie Nelson
6) The World Football League existed from 1974-1975. He was the first “Player of the Week in WFL history and a former Rutgers player:
A. Bruce Van Ness
B. J.J. Jennings
C. Ed “Too Small” Jones
7) Where was the first Rutgers football team training table:
A. Winants Hall
B. Ross Hall
C. Old Queens
8) Rumors were that the 8-1 Rutgers Scarlet Knights were in the running for the inaugural 1958 Bluegrass Bowl in Lexington, KY. Eventually, Oklahoma State and Florida State were chosen to play in 20 degree weather before a scant 3,200. What broadcaster was doing his first national telecast?
A. Howard Cosell
B. Keith Jackson
C. Bud Wilkerson
1) In 1890, Charles Esselstyn became the only known Rutgers player to:
A. Play every position in one game
B. Play for and against Rutgers in the same season
C. Punch out a referee
2) HOF Coach Charley Caldwell coached Princeton from 1945-1956 and was 9-2 in games against Rutgers (best overall in the series). He was also:
A. The man who discovered Walter Camp (The Father of American Football) dead in his hotel bed.
B. The pitcher who knocked out Wally Pipp whose position was assumed by Lou Gehrig.
C. The man who had the idea for the College Football Hall of Fame.
3) In 1921, the Targum ran an item that would be the forerunner of the “Mugrat” fake newspaper issued somewhere during a Rutgers school year. What was the name of this column?
A. Bughouse Targum
B. Numbskull News
C. 23 Skidoo Targum News
4) Before Rutgers Stadium, Neilson Field located next to the Commons on main campus was the second home of Rutgers football. The field hosted its first Major League baseball club when this team came down in the final week of the 1906 season to play the New Brunswick Base Ball Club.
A. Brooklyn Dodgers
B. New York Highlanders (a.k.a. Yankees)
C. St. Louis Cardinals
5) In 1932, he teamed up with Ted Husing to broadcast the Columbia-Middlebury football game on WABC-AM in New York:
A. Paul Robeson
B. Foster Sanford
C. Ozzie Nelson
6) The World Football League existed from 1974-1975. He was the first “Player of the Week in WFL history and a former Rutgers player:
A. Bruce Van Ness
B. J.J. Jennings
C. Ed “Too Small” Jones
7) Where was the first Rutgers football team training table:
A. Winants Hall
B. Ross Hall
C. Old Queens
8) Rumors were that the 8-1 Rutgers Scarlet Knights were in the running for the inaugural 1958 Bluegrass Bowl in Lexington, KY. Eventually, Oklahoma State and Florida State were chosen to play in 20 degree weather before a scant 3,200. What broadcaster was doing his first national telecast?
A. Howard Cosell
B. Keith Jackson
C. Bud Wilkerson
