We gave you one 1980 game earlier. Here’s another football story from that year.
When I started at Rutgers, the stadium held around 23,000. And it was called Rutgers Stadium.
Those 23,000 seats were seldom all filled. But on the afternoon of September 27, 1969, the university had added another 4,000 temporary bleachers in the south endzone - where I was seated - for a televised game. The Centennial of College Football. Against archrival Princeton.
Of course, the “rivalry” had tended to be rather one-sided in its 100-year history. Coming into that September game at the end of the 1960’s, Princeton held a 49-9 series lead.