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'''Rutgers University''' is an important university in New Jersey. It is a public university run by the State of New Jersey. It is one of the oldest universities in the country.
Rutgers is famous as the "birthplace of college football." The first intercollegiate game of football took place between Rutgers in Princeton in 1869; Rutgers won.
Rutgers was the alma mater of the famous singer Paul Robeson, who sang ''Old Man River'' in the original and film versions of ''Showboat.''
The word "antibiotics" was invented at Rutgers by Selman Waksman, whose laboratory did very important work on these drugs in the 1950s. His laboratory developed streptomycin, which was extremely important because it was part of the drug combination that was the first cure for [[tuberculosis]].
Rutgers is famous as the "birthplace of college football." The first intercollegiate game of football took place between Rutgers in Princeton in 1869; Rutgers won.
Rutgers was the alma mater of the famous singer Paul Robeson, who sang ''Old Man River'' in the original and film versions of ''Showboat.''
The word "antibiotics" was invented at Rutgers by Selman Waksman, whose laboratory did very important work on these drugs in the 1950s. His laboratory developed streptomycin, which was extremely important because it was part of the drug combination that was the first cure for [[tuberculosis]].