Team: Rutgers Scarlet Nights
Stadium: Rutgers Stadium
Conference: Big East
Sport: College Football
Background: Rutgers, The State University
of New Jersey, was chartered on November 10, 1766 as "Queen's
College," in honor of King George III's consort, Charlotte.
The original purpose of Queen's College was the education
of future ministers of the Dutch Reformed Church. (Ironically,
given the tenets of Christianity, the college first met at
a tavern called the Sign of the Red Lion, on what is today
the grounds of the Johnson & Johnson Corporation corporate
headquarters in New Brunswick, New Jersey.) It admitted its
first students in 1771 and granted its first degree in 1774,
to Matthew Leydt. When the American Revolution broke out,
the college abandoned the tavern and held classes in private
houses, in and near New Brunswick. Queen's College closed
in 1795, due to a lack of money, and reopened in 1808. The
next year, the college got a building of its own, which is
now called "Old Queen's" (and which still stands).
However, this was not enough to prevent Queen's College from
closing down a second time, in 1812.
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Its alma mater, or anthem, is "On the Banks",
and features the line "For has she not stood / Since
the time of the Flood / On the banks of the old Raritan".
The Raritan River, to which the song alludes, flows between
the New Brunswick and Piscataway portions of the New Brunswick/Piscataway
campus. The Raritan last flooded in 1999, during Hurricane
Floyd, closing the campus for two days due to the blockage
of bridges over the river.
(Technically, the lyrics have been practically incorrect
since the 1950s, when three riverside dorms and a student
center were built in New Brunswick, and the 1980s, when
a riverside park built over a new highway behind the dorms.)
Notable Alumni:
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Kristin Davis |
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Calista Flockhart |
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Louis Freeh |
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Milton Friedman |
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James Gandolfini |
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George Norcross |
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Paul Robeson |
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Robert Torricelli |
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Garret A. Hobart
Vice President of the United States |
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David Stern |
Notable Faculty:
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Stephen Bronner |
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Avery Brooks |
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Vašek Chvátal |
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Jerry Fodor |
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Israel Gelfand |
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Lila Gleitman |
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Alvin Goldman |
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Leon Golub |
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Andras Hajnal |
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Henryk Iwaniec |
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Jeffry Kahn |
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Leonid Khachiyan |
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Ernest Lepore |
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Alan Leslie |
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Colin McGinn |
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
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Zenon Pylyshyn |
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Alan Prince |
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Michael Saks |
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Stephen Stich |
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Mario Szegedy |
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Endre Szemeredi |
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Lionel Tiger |
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Robert Trivers |
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Jay Tischfield |
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Wise Young |
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