The College Avenue Gymnasium, built on the site where the first college football game was played, hosted New Jersey's 1947 and 1966 Constitutional Conventions.
In 1810, a book of 104 rules and regulations are published to guide student down a moral path. Among these rules were prohibitions on dancing and fencing schools, billiards, cards, dice, beer and oyster houses, firearms, powder, and public ball alleys; and further, no student was to "disguise himself for the purpose of imposition or amusement," "speak upon the public stage anything indecent, profane, or immoral," or "employ a barber on the Lord's day to dress his head or shave him."
In 1879, Mark Twain, the famed American author, accepted an honorary membership into the Philoclean Society at Rutgers, but failed to make the customary monetary contribution.
In addition to being the "birthplace of college football," Rutgers has given birth to discoveries and innovations such as Cheez-Whiz , water-soluble sustained release polymers, Tetraploids , robotic hands, artificial bovine insemination , and developed the ceramic tiles for the heat shield on the Space Shuttle.
4 Presidents of Rutgers University
1785–1790 Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh (1736–1790)
1791–1795 William Linn (1752–1808)
1795–1810 Ira Condict (1764–1811)
1810–1825 John Henry Livingston (1746–1825)
1825–1840 Philip Milledoler (1775–1852)
1840–1850 Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck (1791–1879)
1850–1862 Theodore Frelinghuysen (1787–1862)
1862–1882 William H. Campbell (1808–1890)
1882–1890 Merrill Edward Gates (1848–1922)
1891–1906 Austin Scott (1848–1922)
1906–1924 William Henry Steele Demarest (1863–1956)
