It was estimated that over 35,000 participated in New Brunswick to celebrate the ending of World War I both on November 7 and later on November 11 when the Armistice became official. In 1954, Armistice Day was changed to Veterans Day.
Rutgers is 7-7-0 on that day ever since it was first observed on November 11, 1919. Rutgers at Iowa will become the 15th game played on Veterans Day. What was it like when the news came down that week in 1919?
"The bells of Old Queens College rang out yesterday afternoon when word came that Germany had signed the armistice. Students on their way from one lecture room to another immediately dropped their books and ran down to the Ballantine Gymnasium. Here cheer-leader Rice appeared and started a pee-rade… While the band was formed the men gave three short yells for Pershing and three more for Foch…..With no officers or noncoms to restrain them the lads went down College avenue. A squad of kitchen police, in white jackets, jumped out of the mess hall windows of Winant’s Hall and left Mr. McCormick to prepare the supper… the marchers turned up George street 500 strong… Sergeant Moore, a senior, led the boys up Livingston avenue and then to the Rutgers State College for Women. The girls in that institution came out and fell in behind the band. After the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ had been sung by the united institutions on the women’s college campus, the march was resumed out through the gates on onto George street.”
Thank you veterans for your sacrifices and your service.
Rutgers is 7-7-0 on that day ever since it was first observed on November 11, 1919. Rutgers at Iowa will become the 15th game played on Veterans Day. What was it like when the news came down that week in 1919?
"The bells of Old Queens College rang out yesterday afternoon when word came that Germany had signed the armistice. Students on their way from one lecture room to another immediately dropped their books and ran down to the Ballantine Gymnasium. Here cheer-leader Rice appeared and started a pee-rade… While the band was formed the men gave three short yells for Pershing and three more for Foch…..With no officers or noncoms to restrain them the lads went down College avenue. A squad of kitchen police, in white jackets, jumped out of the mess hall windows of Winant’s Hall and left Mr. McCormick to prepare the supper… the marchers turned up George street 500 strong… Sergeant Moore, a senior, led the boys up Livingston avenue and then to the Rutgers State College for Women. The girls in that institution came out and fell in behind the band. After the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ had been sung by the united institutions on the women’s college campus, the march was resumed out through the gates on onto George street.”
Thank you veterans for your sacrifices and your service.
