Rutgers Football

Rutgers has had many key contributing players in its 153-year history of college football. Dating back to the 1910s, the university has had several All-American candidates as well as a couple of once potential Heisman Trophy candidates in its storied history.

In the late 1970s, Rutgers football, led by coach Frank R. Burns, showed the nation its capabilities with an undefeated record in 1976 (11-0). That year included Rutgers star defensive tackle, Nate Toran, who finished his career with 52 sacks including 17 in 1976. Toran earned third team AP All-American that year and was joined by honorable mentions John Alexander, Jim Hughes, Henry Jenkins, and Mark Twitty.

Rutgers Football

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1990sThe early 1990s brought in a great recruiting class for Rutgers football, featuring running backs Bruce Presley and Terrell Willis. Together they were known as "Thunder and Lightning," they racked up 5,889 yards combined earning Presley with second team Freshman All-American honors in 1992, and Willis with first team Freshman All-American honors in 1993.

Rutgers has a contract with SportsNet New York to air various football-related programming during the season. Previous to its Big Ten membership (where its media rights are mainly a part of the Big Ten Network), this included games produced by ESPN Plus.

As of the 2023 season, the Rutgers football broadcast team is led by Chris Carlin as play-by-play. Former Rutgers quarterback Mike Teel is the analyst for games played at home, while the team's road games feature former defensive end Julian Pinnix-Odrick as analyst. Anthony Fucilli serves as the sideline reporter for all games, with Marc Malusis hosting all studio segments with Eric LeGrand as his co-host and analyst.

Inside Rutgers Football is the coach's show of Rutgers University's football team. The show, which debuted at the start of the 2001 season, is hosted by WNBC's Bruce Beck and features the Scarlet Knights' head football coach.[95]

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Rutgers team members decided the time was right to challenge Princeton, also one of the original colonial colleges, to a game. Rutgers chose as their captain William J. Leggett, who wrote a letter laying down the challenge: a series of three football games. Princeton, represented by its captain, William S. Gummere, wasted no time in responding: game on!

Busch Campus offers easy access to Werblin Recreation Center, the Rutgers football stadium, intramural fields, and class and lab space for the Schools of Engineering and Pharmacy. Busch is home to traditional first-year residence halls, suite-style living, and apartments for both undergraduate and graduate students. Several special living options are offered at Busch, especially for students with an interest in engineering and technology.

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On November 6, 1869, Rutgers beats Princeton, 6-4, in the first college football game. The game, played with a soccer ball before roughly 100 fans in New Brunswick, New Jersey, resembles rugby instead of today's football.

"For years each had striven for possession of an old Revolutionary cannon, making night forays and lugging it back and forth time and again," recalled Rutgers' John W. Herbert, who played in the first game, in a 1930 newspaper feature. "Not long before the first football game, the canny Princetonians had settled this competition in their own favor by ignominiously sinking the gun in several feet of concrete."

Rutgers football has had a strong academic tradition, reaching as high as the top Academic Progress Rate in the nation under head coach Greg Schiano in 2010. That continued with 46 Academic All-Big Ten selections in 2020, the most for the program since joining the conference. Aslan Pugh earned the distinction for the third-straight year, achieving the feat as a mechanical engineering major. Now in his sixth year in the program, Pugh joined the Scarlet Knights as a walk-on in the Honors College. Managing football with the rigors of engineering is something he is proud of. "Balancing was definitely hard at first," Pugh said. "It was just learning how to manage my time. I spent all this time with football and then I come home and it's just straight school. I have to get all my work done. And once I kind of got that down in my sophomore year when I understood it, my grades started to do really well. "There's still some time to have free time and hangout and do stuff, but definitely a lot less than other people. I had to find my routine. At Rutgers, we spend a lot of time with football, but nothing gives for school." Being a football player and engineering major has also allowed Pugh to experience two different worlds. Earning his undergraduate degree, Pugh is now working on a master's degree in business and science with a concentration in engineering management. "I take care of everything I need to with football in the morning and then I go into a completely different mode in class," he said. "Both have certainly prepared me for when I leave." Pugh has played in 21 games for the Scarlet Knights, seeing time on offense, defense and special teams. He is also versatile knowing several coding languages, including Java, Arduino and MATLAB. "My favorite class might have been computational analysis and design because I like coding a lot," Pugh said. "Mechatronics was a cool class when we went to the lab because we got to actually build things. My senior design project was fun because we got to design our whole product then actually make the pieces in a 3D printer, put it together, code it ourselves and then present it and show that it works." A native of Wilmington, Delaware, Pugh is the only member of the 2021 roster from the First State. Delaware has produced RU standouts such as Duron Harmon and Andre Patton, who both went from Rutgers to the NFL, and captains Jamal and Jamil Merrell. Moving forward, Pugh is looking to finish his Rutgers career strong on and off the field. "On the field, I just want to help the team however I can," Pugh said. "My master's program is two years, and when I finish, I want something that's still hands on, active, something that I'm moving around, not something that's a straight-up desk job. I'm so used to moving around doing stuff. Plus, I went into engineering because I wanted to have my hands on something, building some type of product, being able to test it, work it out and move it to the next stage."

There are estimates the lack of a football season will cost Rutgers $50 million. Schiano said there will have to be some belt tightening. He said he has talked to athletic director Pat Hobbs and he will keep his 10% salary cut in place.

The Bill Denny/Rutgers Football Letterwinners Chapter of the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame honors 24 local high school seniors at its annual Scholar-Athlete Banquet with well over 200 football enthusiasts in attendance. The Bill Denny chapter, named for the legendary South River High School football coach, has distributed over $210,000 in scholarships to deserving high school seniors for exemplary achievements on the field and in the classroom.

The Chapter will hold its 50th scholar-athlete awards luncheon on March 11, 2018, at the Pines Manor.

Additional awards presented include the Distinguished Coach award, the Edward "Red" Losiewicz Distinguished Official award and the Distinguished American Award.

LeGrand Coffee House continues its rapid expansion this week, today announcing its first stadium deal after just four months of operation. Starting on Thursday at the Rutgers Football Spring Game and leading into the fall season, LeGrand Coffee House will be available at all home football games at SHI Stadium.

In October 2010, LeGrand sustained a spinal cord injury at his C3 and C4 vertebrae while playing football for Rutgers University. Since that life-altering incident occurred, he has become a worldwide source of inspiration whose message of positivity has influenced a countless number of people throughout the world. Additionally, LeGrand has developed an incredible business and professional acumen, becoming an established entrepreneur, motivational speaker, sports analyst, philanthropist and author.

Former Rutgers football secondary coach Fran Brown has been hired as the head coach of Syracuse. For Brown, currently with Georgia football, it is a return to the northeast after spending two seasons with Rutgers.

A few specific issues the Council has considered in recent years are evaluation of teaching, professionalization of PTLs, the need to keep and support Sakai, use of Academic Analytics, establishment of the New Brunswick Honors College, ethical and academic problems in the Rutgers football program, and finances of the Rutgers Athletics Program. ff782bc1db