(11-04-2019 09:29 AM)megadrone Wrote:  

(11-02-2019 12:32 PM)esayem Wrote:  UConn-Nova would be a good one with the Big East connection. Regionally, the Huskies have Maine, UNH, and the old Ramnapping Trophy rivalry with Rhode Island as well. It would be cool to have the UConn-URI game yearly again.

Temple-Delaware, Syracuse-Colgate, BC-Holy Cross: a lot of old rivalries were lost in the northeast. I think Rutgers had rivalries (or at least yearly games) with Lafayette, Lehigh, and an ancient one with Fordham.

We were in a conference (sort of) with Lehigh and Lafayette for 40+ years and those games were annual fixtures on our schedule.

We also played Princeton nearly every year until 1980. With the schools about 20 miles apart it could be a great rivalry and we should play them in a lot of Olympic sports. In a perfect world they woudl have been on our schedule for football this year.

The problem with UConn's former conference mates scheduling them in football is that we don't have that many OOC games to give and it will take a while for those spots to open up. UConn may have the available dates to schedule multiple Lambert schools at once but the rest of us don't.

Rutgers played Princeton in the first ever college football game and beat them Nov. 6, 1869. They played again at Princeton and lost.
Both schools have been awarded the National Championship for that year with split 1 and 1 seasons.