Using the word “ever” in a sports column, generally speaking, is a bad idea. We’ve been playing these games for a very long time, after all. To suggest that something — anything — is unprecedented in sports is to invite challenges from knowledgable readers.
And it is especially difficult to use that word with the Rutgers football program, which participated in the first intercollegiate game. You think any setback this century is bad? Well, just ask the boys how they felt about that 82-0 loss to Princeton back in ‘88 — 1888, that is — or maybe their great, great grandkids.
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