1952 pic of field where RU Princeton played first ever CFB game?

[Ruthinking]

for the life of me.i don't know why rutgers does'nt turn that site in to a tourist attraction.there should be a museum and football games...build it and they will come.it is the ONE thing that RUTGERS has that no team can match.a reenactment game every friday before a saturday game .or at least once a year for the anniversary! we are the birthplace!

There was a time when New Brunswick was being considered for the College Football Hall of Fame...not too, too long ago. But apparently the powers in charge never really pursued it to any degree and the NCAA decided on Canton, Ohio. (Canton, right?)

With what we know now it would have been so cool to have the Hall of Fame in NB.

 

[Source]

The site was selected to host the College Football Hall of Fame back in 1949. They went into fund raising mode for a building that never got built. Rutgers loaned its own personnel to help staff and run it all the way to 1972. But it only existed on paper. Plans eventually took it from College Field over to a spot about 400 yards north of Rutgers Stadium. They even had a groundbreaking ceremony right before the Army game in 1966 and promised it would be done by the Football Centennial year of 1969. It wasn't. It left the campus and went to NYC where investigations began into the books on the Hall. They were eventually cleared. An amusement park operator in Kings Mills (outside of Cincinnati), OH said they'd build a building there if the Hall would move to there. They did. In 1994, they moved to South Bend. Last year, they moved to Atlanta where the College Football Hall of Fame now stands.

Canton is where you will find the NFL Hall of Fame..

 

[RU'70]

I doubt there is a Rutgers any RU alum from the 60's who does not have fond memories of "Patti's".

Here is my fondest memory of Patti's. When I was a wet behind the ears kid in his early 20's, I worked in HR in Winants Hall at RU. They were doing an inventory on a Saturday at the Bookstore which at the time was near Records Hall. They recruited me to help out. It was a big deal as all the poobahs in Finance were there. For lunch we all went to Patti's. They all ordered hamburgers and sandwiches, etc. I ordered a bar pie. When it came, I remember the VP of finance, who was sitting next to me at the bar (he may have been called the Provost--I really don't remember) said it looked great and wished he had known so he could have ordered one.

 

[BLewis1968]

There was a time when New Brunswick was being considered for the College Football Hall of Fame...not too, too long ago. But apparently the powers in charge never really pursued it to any degree and the NCAA decided on Canton, Ohio. (Canton, right?)

With what we know now it would have been so cool to have the Hall of Fame in NB.

Yeah, from someplace called Kings Mills, Ohio to NYC to South Bend to Atlanta. What a missed opportunity for Rutgers.

 

[Tango Two]

What year was the field paved over?

Between 1957 & 1963

 

[e5fdny]

Shows how much I know....

All these years and I thought the Patti was the first name of the owner. LOL

 

[Ruthinking]

The site was selected to host the College Football Hall of Fame back in 1949. They went into fund raising mode for a building that never got built. Rutgers loaned its own personnel to help staff and run it all the way to 1972. But it only existed on paper. Plans eventually took it from College Field over to a spot about 400 yards north of Rutgers Stadium. They even had a groundbreaking ceremony right before the Army game in 1966 and promised it would be done by the Football Centennial year of 1969. It wasn't. It left the campus and went to NYC where investigations began into the books on the Hall. They were eventually cleared. An amusement park operator in Kings Mills (outside of Cincinnati), OH said they'd build a building there if the Hall would move to there. They did. In 1994, they moved to South Bend. Last year, they moved to Atlanta where the College Football Hall of Fame now stands.

Canton is where you will find the NFL Hall of Fame..

Yeah, what he said...

 

[T2Kplus10]

My thoughts exactly. Typical clueless Rutgers

Mega +1
With so much history and significance surrounding that field and that game, what moron decided to pave it over? It really should be restored.

 

[T2Kplus10]

Bump.

 

[Awesome Hawk]

For someone that has never been within 1000 miles of New Jersey, what on earth is a "bar pie"?

 

[ruwarrior]

Rutgers..... the only university where this would be a forgotten parking lot. Mickey Mouse as usual.

Was looking at some Arial photos of Piscataway and stumbled on this 1952 color photo of the college ave gym before the paved parking lot was installed behind it. And I assume from historical accounts, the dirt/ grass field behind the gym in the lower left of the photo is where the first ever College football game against Princeton was played. College ave was quite different then. Houses were directly across the street from the gym, and no Browers Commons yet. Looks like there may be 3 outdoor bball courts to the west of the gym... but tough to make that out for sure.
See Link:

http://oldnewbrunswick.rutgers.edu/JEB/CACgym_4_54.jpg

 

[CERU00]

Between 1957 & 1963

Everything done at Rutgers in late 50s and 60s seems like a complete abomination. Scott hall , browers, paving the original field. I'm sure I'm missing so much more.