The Rutgers Scarlet Knights men's soccer team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of

Rutgers University–New Brunswick Rutgers University–New Brunswick is one of three regional campuses of Rutgers University, New Jersey's public research university. It is located in New Brunswick and Piscataway. It is the oldest campus of the university, the others bein ...

in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States. The team is a member of the

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, which is part of the

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's Division I. Rutgers's first varsity's men's soccer team was fielded in 1938, although organized soccer has been played at the university since at least 1869. The team plays its home games at

Yurcak Field Yurcak Field is a 5,000 seat soccer-specific stadium on the main campus of Rutgers University in Piscataway Township, New Jersey. Fully acknowledged as The Soccer Stadium at Yurcak Field, it is named in honor of Ronald N. Yurcak, a 1965 All-Amer ...

in New Brunswick. The Knights are coached by Jim McElderry.

History

The origins of Rutgers soccer trace back to the 1869 college soccer season, where the first ever collegiate soccer game was played in the United States. The then-Rutgers College (now

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) and the College of New Jersey (now

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) played an exhibition match that ended in a 6–4 result. Rutgers won the game by a score of 6–4 In addition to being considered one of the earlier soccer games reported in the United States, these two games are considered to be the first organized American college football games to ever be played. Rutgers' first varsity team was fielded in 1938, where they Knights competed as an independent team. Rutgers remained unaffiliated with any formal athletic conference and was considered an independent until joining the Atlantic 10 Conference as an associate soccer member in the mid-1980s. The Knights

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for soccer in 1995. On July 1, 2014, Rutgers became a member of the Big Ten athletic conference, after paying an $11.5 million exit fee to the

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(which formed as a result of the splitting of the Big East Conference).

Roster

men's soccer roster
on Rutgers website

Head coaching history

There have been five coaches in Rutgers' history. * Geza Kiss was an interim coach.

Individual achievements

All-Americans

Rutgers has produced eight All-Americans.

Notes

References

External links

* {{Big Ten Conference men's soccer navbox 1938 establishments in New Jersey Association football clubs established in 1938