Rutgers’ first alumnus to win the Nobel Prize, Professor Selman A. Waksman, Rutgers College 1915, and his graduate students Albert Schatz and Elizabeth Bugie are credited with the discovery at Rutgers of streptomycin, the antibiotic that virtually ended the scourge of tuberculosis in the 20th century. Once known as consumption, the disease became widely feared during the 19th century, when it was responsible for almost a quarter of all deaths in North America. For his groundbreaking work in microbiology, Waksman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine in 1952. Waksman founded the Waksman Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers, which continues to pioneer innovations in the field.
But does a Daily Targum analysis count as the first example of postgame wrap-up?: “Princeton had the most muscle, but didn't kick very well, and wanted organization. They evidently don't like to kick the ball on the ground. Our men, on the other hand, though comparatively weak, ran well, and kicked well throughout. But their great point was the organization, for which great praise is due to the captain. The right men were always in the right place.”