Unusual teams that count in All-Time win totals
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While Football had many opponents close to each other in the northeast, other parts of the country found it hard to find a football opponent before football started to grow. I believe either Arizona State or Arizona's first ever opponent was a high school team. Until more colleges got involved, you played what you could get.
Rutgers played athletic clubs from 1886 through 1899 and some of them were considered some of the best football teams in the country. And most schools including Princeton, Yale, Harvard, etc. in the northeast played them too.
During the two World Wars, Rutgers was praised for putting military teams on its schedule.
Who was the last opponent Rutgers played that wasn't a college or the Army or Navy academies?
Anybody? Anybody? Buehler?.... Buehler?
Rutgers played athletic clubs from 1886 through 1899 and some of them were considered some of the best football teams in the country. And most schools including Princeton, Yale, Harvard, etc. in the northeast played them too.
During the two World Wars, Rutgers was praised for putting military teams on its schedule.
Who was the last opponent Rutgers played that wasn't a college or the Army or Navy academies?
Anybody? Anybody? Buehler?.... Buehler?
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good stuff.. just what it took to travel back then. while it was not medieval taking a full day to walk to a market town on market day and return.. or even modern day africa taking the women a whole morning to go get the water for the day and return... it was not easy. That was how Notre Dame became NOTRE DAME... they took train trips with their ringers and played game after game on the road... making a name for themselves everywhere.
iirc, that was a helluva team.. with future NFLer Joe Kapp at QB.
For variety.. I'll say something like some Coast Guard or Merchant Marine facility.
And you would be correct!.... although it was in the late 1950s:
November 15, 1958
Quantico Marines 13
(#19 AP) Rutgers 12
Piscataway, NJ
Rutgers Stadium
Attendance: 10,000
Rutgers finished 8-1 that season so that was a huge loss. A broken hand kept Rutgers star back Billy Austin from playing.
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Some of the ones from that list are just like current D3 schools and stuff. They don't seem that weird considering they're games from like the 1800s or early 1900s but w/e
The high schools are kinda funny
The high schools are kinda funny
Texas A&M has counted spring games in their win totals