This Day in Rutgers Football History - The Election Day Games

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Election Day was once a Rutgers student holiday. Between 1875 - 1923, Rutgers played 21 Election Day football games. However, Rutgers had set up its first Election Day game at Princeton for November 4, 1873. But then, according to that day’s New Brunswick Daily Times, “After some $50 had been expended by the Rutgers twenty in the purchase of tickets to Princeton, a telegram was received this morning stating cooly that Princeton ‘would play at twelve or not at all.’ Princeton students, in their collective capacity, are tolerably cheeky, for they know that no body of men can leave here before 1:47 p.m.”

After the LSU-Rutgers game of 1923 held at the Polo Grounds, the faculty took its own vote. Election Day would no longer be a student holiday.

Many Americans in history died to create, for you, the awesome act of expressing who you want as elected leaders. Please fulfill that responsibility. Good luck and be safe.

 

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Election Day was once a Rutgers student holiday. Between 1875 - 1923, Rutgers played 21 Election Day football games. However, Rutgers had set up its first Election Day game at Princeton for November 4, 1873. But then, according to that day’s New Brunswick Daily Times, “After some $50 had been expended by the Rutgers twenty in the purchase of tickets to Princeton, a telegram was received this morning stating cooly that Princeton ‘would play at twelve or not at all.’ Princeton students, in their collective capacity, are tolerably cheeky, for they know that no body of men can leave here before 1:47 p.m.”

After the LSU-Rutgers game of 1923 held at the Polo Grounds, the faculty took its own vote. Election Day would no longer be a student holiday.

Many Americans in history died to create, for you, the awesome act of expressing who you want as elected leaders. Please fulfill that responsibility. Good luck and be safe. It. is not an RU FB game but a special day for Beaced On 11/06/45 I was given a great birthday present from Uncle Sam. Was discharged from the Army at age 20.Because it was Election Day all the bars were closed and the guys who came up from Texas with me and I could not get a celebratory drink

 

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Beaced:
On 11/06/45 I was given a great birthday present from Uncle Sam. Was discharged from the Army at age 20.Because it was Election Day all the bars were closed and the guys who came up from Texas with me and I could not get a celebratory drink.

Thank you for your service Beaced. A question to you. Was your service overseas during WWII? If so, do you remember the Victory ship and port you were returned to?

I read about the return of all the American soldiers in the weeks/months of late 1945/early 1946 once WWII ended.

Apparently there were about a half dozen ports on both coasts where the soldiers returned - up to 10,000 a day at its peak! Was curious if you were one of them.