Before we take you through a stroll down memory lane with a look at Rutgers football uniforms through the decades, here's a quick history lesson.
Rutgers was a pioneer in identifying its athletics teams with an official school color.
In May, 1869 — six months before Rutgers played Princeton on Nov. 6, 1869, in the first intercollegiate football game — the university’s student newspaper, The Targum, first proposed scarlet as the official school color.
University officials adopted it a few months later and scarlet was said to be picked because it’s a striking color and because a good scarlet ribbon could easily be obtained.