page_title: Rutgers University–New Brunswick
section_title: Athletic heritage
hierarchical_section_title: Rutgers University–New Brunswick / Athletic heritage
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of the Rutgers College Football team,
context_page_description: Rutgers University – New Brunswick is one of three regional campuses of Rutgers University, New Jersey's public research university. It is located in New Brunswick and Piscataway. It is the oldest campus of the university, the others being in Camden and Newark. The campus is composed of several smaller campuses: College Avenue, Busch, Livingston, Cook, and Douglass, the latter two sometimes referred to as "Cook/Douglass," as they are adjacent to each other. Rutgers – New Brunswick also includes several buildings in downtown New Brunswick. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".
  The New Brunswick campuses include 19 undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools. Prospective first-year students can apply into the School of Arts and Sciences, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, School of Engineering, the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, the Mason Gross School of the Arts, the School of Nursing, and the Rutgers Business School.
context_section_description: Rutgers University is referred to as The Birthplace of College Football as the first intercollegiate football game was held on College Field between Rutgers and Princeton on 6 November 1869 on a plot of ground behind where the present-day College Avenue Gymnasium now stands. Rutgers won the game, by the score of 6 to Princeton's 4.
  In 1864, rowing became the first organized sport at Rutgers. Six mile races were held on the Raritan River among six-oared boats. In 1870, Rutgers held its first intercollegiate competition against the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard. During the following century, Rutgers built a strong men's crew program consisting of both heavyweight and lightweight teams. A women's crew team was added in 1974. In the fall of 2007, men's heavyweight and lightweight crew, along with men's swimming and diving, men's tennis, and men's and women's fencing were cut as NCAA Division I sports by the university administration. The university claimed these changes were due to budget cuts, while others said it was a politically motivated move used to protest funding changes by the state. The university currently has no plans to restore these sports.
caption: The Rutgers College football team in 1882.
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