The game played between teams from Rutgers University and Princeton University, which was called the College of New Jersey at the time, took place on November 6, 1869 at College Field, which is now the site of the College Avenue Gymnasium at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

The 1869 game between Rutgers and Princeton is important in that it is the first documented game of something called intercollegiate " football " ever played between two American colleges, and because of this, Rutgers refers to itself as The Birthplace of College Football.

The Rutgers College football team in 1882.

* 1869 – In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University ( then known as the College of New Jersey ), 6-4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.

* 1766 – The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College ( later renamed Rutgers University ).

* April 25 – Ten sophomores from Rutgers College ( now Rutgers University ) steal a one-ton cannon from the campus of the College of New Jersey ( now Princeton University ) and start the Rutgers-Princeton Cannon War.

Rutgers University defeats Princeton University 6 – 4 in a forerunner to American football and College football.

* November 10 – The last Colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College ( later renamed Rutgers University ).

Besides teaching at Purdue, she was also appointed Knapp Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin's School of Engineering, and taught at other universities including the Newark College of Engineering, Bryn Mawr College, and Rutgers University.

His uncle, Theodore Frelinghuysen ( 1787 – 1862 ), was Attorney General of New Jersey from 1817 to 1829, was a U. S. Senator from New Jersey from 1829 to 1835, was the Whig candidate for Vice President of the United States on the Henry Clay ticket in the 1844 Presidential election, and was Chancellor of New York University from 1839 until 1850 and president of Rutgers College from 1850 to 1862.

Frelinghuysen was graduated from Rutgers College in 1836, and studied law in Newark with his uncle, to whose practice he succeeded in 1839, after he was admitted to the bar.

In September 1963 he took a leave of absence from his teaching position at Douglass College at Rutgers.

Kilmer entered Rutgers College Grammar School ( now Rutgers Preparatory School ) in 1895 at the age of 8.

During his time at Rutgers, Friedman became influenced by two economics professors, Arthur F. Burns and Homer Jones, who convinced him that modern economics could help end the Great Depression.

Rutgers is one of only two colonial colleges that later became public universities, the other being The College of William and Mary.

With the development of graduate education, and the continued expansion of the institution, the collection of schools became Rutgers University in 1924.

When he was a student at Rutgers University, Dale became co-president of the Lesbian / Gay student alliance.

* Rutgers College – Chartered as Queen's college in 1766, and renamed for benefactor Henry Rutgers ( above ) in 1825, this institution continued to exist by this name as a liberal arts college after Rutgers became a university in 1924, and continued to exist as such until 2007 when it was merged with other colleges into the Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences.

The New Jersey collection began in 1961 when FDU became one of the earliest participants in the New Jersey Document Program listed as 4th in precedence out of 80 depositories behind the Council of State Government, Rutgers University and the NJ State Library.

Douglass College, part of Rutgers University was the last publicly funded women's only college until 2007 when it became coed.

In 1955, he became a Professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law in Newark.

He became an associate professor at Rutgers in 1995, and left for a year in 1997-1998 to take up a permanent position at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques.

He then returned to Rutgers and in 2000 became the director of the NHETC.

There he became a Professor at Rutgers University, New Jersey and an associate of Lyndon LaRouche, and was a founding board member of the Schiller Institute in 1984.

The Delta chapter was founded at Rutgers University later that year, and was the most longevous continuously active chapter of the fraternity until it became inactive in 2009 after the loss of its charter, is now being activated in the 2011 summer.

Montagu, who became a naturalized American citizen in 1940, taught and lectured at Harvard, Princeton University, Rutgers University, the University of California, and New York University.

) The institution later became " Rutgers University ," then " Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Hays became professor of political science at the Eagleton Institute at Rutgers University and a visiting professor of government at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Eventually, Algarín became a Professor of Shakespeare, Creative Writing and United States Ethnic Literature at Rutgers University.

When McCormick announced his intent to take a position at Rutgers, he became the first UW president in 50 years to leave for another university.

He taught at Rutgers University from 1929 to 1937, when he became Chief Assistant at the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

He stopped working in Greenwich in 1964, when he became a professor at Rutgers, retiring in 1979.

The oldest school to hold land-grant status is Rutgers University, founded in 1766 and designated the land-grant college of New Jersey in 1864.

During his tenure, the separation from the Dutch Reformed Church was about complete, and with the development of the Rutgers Scientific School ( established with the assistance of Professor George H. Cook for whom it was later renamed ), Rutgers beat out the College of New Jersey ( now Princeton University ) to be designated by the state legislature as New Jersey's land-grant college in 1864 under the Morrill Act of 1862.

Formerly known as Cook College — which was named for George Hammell Cook, a professor at Rutgers in the 19th Century — it was founded as the Rutgers Scientific School and later College of Agriculture after Rutgers was named New Jersey's land-grant college under the Morrill Act of 1862.

An 1869 game of intercollegiate " football " between Rutgers and Princeton is often cited as the first intercollegiate American football game, however it was an unfamiliar ancestor of today's college football, as it was played under 6-year-old soccer-style Association rules.

One upset occurred in 1961, when the small liberal arts colleges of Hobart and William Smith in Geneva, New York, defeated Baylor University to retire undefeated as the third college, along with Rutgers and Colgate, to do so.

This institution, today the private Rutgers Preparatory School, was a part of the college community until 1959.

Rutgers College continued as a liberal arts college within the university.

He played his college football at Rutgers University.

Ozzie Nelson was a Rutgers alumnus and keen on college education, but eighteen-year-old Ricky was already in the 93-percent income-tax bracket and saw no reason to attend.

Although they decided to forgo college, they made the decision to move to a college town ; New Brunswick, NJ, which is the home of Rutgers University.

* Columbia Lions joins the college football circuit and loses to Rutgers Scarlet Knights in its only game.

She first did stand-up on a dare while in college at Rutgers University.

The college has affiliations and programs with New York University, Seton Hall University, American University, Columbia University, Rutgers University, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and a host of other schools.

The stadium hosted college football games, including the Garden State Bowl from 1978 – 1981 ; the Kickoff Classic from 1983 to 2002 ; the New York Urban League Classic since 1981 ; a number of Rutgers homes games ( including all their home games during the 1993 season ); several Notre Dame – Navy and Notre Dame – Army games ; and the Army – Navy Game on three occasions, most recently in 2002.

In 1953, Ciardi joined the English Department at Rutgers University in order to begin a writing program, but after eight successful years there, he resigned his professorship in 1961 in favor of several other more lucrative careers, especially fall and spring tours on the college lecture circuit, and to " devote himself fulltime to literary pursuits.

* University College ( Rutgers University ), a constituent college of Rutgers University