On November 6, 1869, Rutgers beat Princeton, 6-4, in the first
college football game. The game, played with a soccer ball
before roughly 100 fans in New Brunswick, New Jersey,
resembles rugby instead of today’s football.
William A. Reynolds, former Princeton Football
player and first head coach at Rutgers College.
The First Football Game Statue – Rutgers University.
SANDY KOZEL
On November 4, 1990, Dances with Wolves, a film about an
American Civil War-era soldier and a group of Sioux Native
Americans that stars Kevin Costner and also marks his
directorial debut, premiered in Los Angeles.
The film, which opened across the United States on November
21, 1990, was a surprise box-office success and earned 12
Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor for Costner.
Dances with Wolves took home seven Oscars, including Best
Picture and Best Director, and solidified Costner’s place on
Hollywood’s A-list.
CARLATA BRADLEY
The Hughes Flying Boat, at one time the largest aircraft ever built,
was piloted by designer Howard Hughes on its first and only flight
in Long Beach Harbor, California.
Built with laminated birch and spruce (hence the nickname the
Spruce Goose) the massive wooden aircraft had a wingspan
longer than a football field and was designed to carry more than
700 men to battle.
Howard Hughes was a successful Hollywood movie producer when
he founded the Hughes Aircraft Company in 1932. He personally
tested cutting-edge aircraft of his own design and in 1937 broke the transcontinental flight-time record.
In 1938, he flew around the world in a record three days, 19 hours,
and 14 minutes.
Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (1905 – 1976)
The Spruce Goose is now on display at the Evergreen
Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon.
