As a Rutgers football fan, you know you're old when.....

IMARUFAN

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Mar 29, 2015
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You can recall at least three helmet designs BEFORE the Block R.
God, they had some awful looking helmets in the past.

 

Kbee3

Heisman
Aug 23, 2002
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You can remember putting the turkey in the oven on Thanksgiving Day and the whole family heading off to Rutgers stadium for the big South River-New Brunswick rivalry game.
 
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DJ Spanky

Heisman
Jul 25, 2001
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Was it something like 25,000 average to retain D1 status?

No, 30K.

To maintain FBS status, a school must average 15,000 in paid or actual attendance a game at least once every two seasons. The NCAA used to require Division I-A schools to have a stadium with a minimum capacity of 30,000, but that rule was scrapped in 2004.
 
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motorb54

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Dec 22, 2005
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You witnessed or participated in streaking in the Quad.
There was a great picture in the Targum of a streaker who only wore a cap and a long scarf where the scarf covered enough of his junk that they could publish. He became a minor celebrity.
 
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Scarletnut

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Jul 27, 2001
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There was a great picture in the Targum of a streaker who only wore a cap and a long scarf where the scarf covered enough of his junk that they could publish. He became a minor celebrity.
That guy was my roommate and one of my best friends to this date. So was the guy behind him. They were the coffee house band, Jasmine. I was right behind them and not in the picture. Behind me was another buddy who just had a hernia operation, was shaved, and could only walk, not run. Spring of ā€˜74
 

RUPete

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Feb 5, 2003
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You can remember putting the turkey in the oven on Thanksgiving Day and the whole family heading off to Rutgers stadium for the big South River-New Brunswick rivalry game.
Or you can remember the WCTC round robin TG HS football broadcast although that didn’t end until a few years ago.
 

RUPete

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I’m old enough to have watched JJ Jennings rush for over 200 yards against the UMASS REDMEN at RUTGERS Stadium
They were the Redmen at one time? I always remember Minutemen going back to the Eastern 8 days, but that was late 70s.
 

DJ Spanky

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They were the Redmen at one time? I always remember Minutemen going back to the Eastern 8 days, but that was late 70s.

Here ya go:

The nickname was officially changed to the "Redmen" when the name of the college became the University of Massachusetts in 1947.
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In response to changing attitudes regarding the use of Native American-themed mascots, they changed their mascot in 1972 to the Minuteman