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NEXT GENERAL
MEMBERSHIP MEETING THURSDAY NOVEMBER 14TH!!
The Touchdown Club's next General Membership Meeting of the 2002 season will be held Thursday
night November 14th at the Hale Center in Piscataway. Doors open at
6pm. We will again be hearing from Coach Schiano as he recaps the Miami game
and provides perspective on the Temple game. Light refreshments will be served.
We also hope to have a surprise guest speaker at this meeting.
To date we have had two excellent meetings which have been well attended.
Please come out and join us again and bring a friend to join the Club!
POST SEASON AWARDS
BANQUET
The 64th annual Rutgers Touchdown Club Football Awards Banquet will be held
on Sunday December 8th at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown New Brunswick.
The reception will begin with cocktails at 5:00 p.m. with dinner and the awards
program at 6:00 p.m. If you are interested in attending please contact Pat
English at the football office at 732-445-5126. If you are interested an advertisement
of booster ad, please call Doug Dolan at 973-334-6051.
Rutgers
Touchdown Club - News
Football
Rutgers enters its second
and final bye week in a similar position as the first -- fresh off a valiant
effort against a nationally-ranked opponent and with the peculiar mix of honor
and disappointment that goes along with such an accomplishment.
The first part of the season ended with the Scarlet Knights squandering a
14-7 halftime lead in a 35-14 loss against 11th-ranked Tennessee. This one
ended with the Knights taking a 17-14 lead over No. 1 Miami into the fourth
quarter, only to see it vanish in a 42-17 defeat
Scarlet
Knights far from satisfied
Rutgers seemed on the
verge of one of college football's biggest upsets before collapsing in the
fourth quarter during a 42-17 loss to top-ranked Miami. The Knights led, 17-14,
after three quarters. The loss was Rutgers' 20th straight in Big East games,
but coach Greg Schiano thinks his team may be turning the corner. "We're
going in the right direction," Schiano said
'Canes
working on attitude adjustment
Men's Basketball
Adrian Hill, for no explicable
reason, had fallen off the radar screen.
After leading Canton-McKinley High School to a record 25th consecutive state
tournament appearance the Bulldogs lost in Ohio's 2001-02 Division I semifinals
Hill got little respect.
Recruiting analyst Clark Francis rated him the country's 356th best graduating
high school senior, and Hill was nowhere to be found on the lists of some
other scouting services.
RU's
Hill off radar screen
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Around
the Big East
There was a whole lot
of noise around the Big East last weekend.
There was screaming in New England, as Boston College students tore down a
practice field goal post.
There was celebration on Pittsburgh’s Oakland campus, from the old Fitzgerald
Field House down to Primanti’s.
Miami-Pitt,
not Miami-VT, could be BCS showdown
Around
the Nation
On Tuesday, the good people
of Michigan had the opportunity to go to the voting booth and select a governor,
U.S. senator and a host of other state officials.
In real world terms, it was supposed to be a big day.
But the lead story on the front page of virtually every newspaper in the state,
often under a World War size headline, concerned the dismissal of Michigan
State coach Bobby Williams. "Sacked" screamed the Detroit Free Press.
"Williams Fired" blared the Lansing State Journal.
Proud
Spartan land now must find right man
Interesting Article
Two months after the USA's
humbling sixth-place finish in basketball's world championships, college rulesmakers
are looking seriously at changes that could move the sport closer to the less
physical, more graceful international game.
Sentiment is growing, those officials say, to permanently adopt two significant
changes to be tried experimentally this season: widening the lane and moving
back the three-point line.
Rules
changes may make college hoops more international
Donald "Big
Dog" Forbes: BigDog@Rutgersfootball.com
Mike and the Big Dog LLC