1955 Rutgers Scarlet Knights Football Team
The 1955 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team represented Rutgers University in the 1955 college football season. In their 14th and final season under head coach Harvey Harman, the Scarlet Knights compiled a 3–5 record and were outscored by their opponents 163 to 95. Schedule References Rutgers Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and w ...

Middle Three Conference
The Middle Three Conference was an College athletics, intercollegiate athletic scheduling alliance from 1929 to 1969. It had three members throughout its 41-year existence: Lafayette College and Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, and Rutgers University in New Jersey. Administratively, the "conference" was little more than a three-way rivalry; there was no league commissioner or central office for scheduling or enforcement. Lafayette, Lehigh and Rutgers competed for a Middle Three championship in several sports, including College baseball, baseball, College basketball, men's basketball and College football, football. In all sports, the Middle Three was part of the Middle Atlantic Conferences, Middle Atlantic Conference, University Division, from the 1958–59 season to the 1961–62 season, when Rutgers withdrew from the MAC. History By the end of the 1920s, the Lafayette Leopards, Lehigh Mountain Hawks, Lehigh Brown and White and Rutgers Scarlet Knights, Rutgers Queensmen had b ...
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Providence, Rhode Island
Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He named the area in honor of "God's merciful Providence" which he believed was responsible for revealing such a haven for him and his followers. The city developed as a busy port as it is situated at the mouth of the Providence River in Providence County, at the head of Narragansett Bay. Providence was one of the first cities in the country to industrialize and became noted for its textile manufacturing and subsequent machine tool, jewelry, and silverware industries. Today, the city of Providence is home to eight hospitals and List of colleges and universities in Rhode Island#Institutions, eight institutions of higher learning which have shifted the city's economy into service industries, though it still retains some manufacturin ...
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1955 Middle Three Conference Football Season
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