Nearly four months after Rutgers announced plans to move a football home game against Maryland in the 2017 season to Yankee Stadium, the university's athletics department on Tuesday morning announced the wrestling teams also will be getting in on the action.

Billed as the "Big Ten Battle in the Bronx,'' Rutgers will contest a football and wrestling doubleheader against Maryland at Yankee Stadium on Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017.

The Rutgers-Maryland wrestling match will be the first in the history of Yankee Stadium, and will be followed by the Scarlet Knights-Terps football game later in the day.

Rutgers has beaten Maryland twice on the wrestling mat since joining the Big Ten in 2014-15.

"Never before has a doubleheader such as this taken place at a venue so iconic,'' Rutgers Athletics Director Pat Hobbs said in a statement. "We are thrilled to provide our fans this one-of-a-kind experience while enhancing the Big Ten brand in the world's media capital. This is certain to be a very special day. We are thankful to the New York Yankees, the Big Ten Conference and the University of Maryland for helping to make it possible.''

In late May, Hobbs said Rutgers would honor an agreement made in principle by the university's previous athletics administration with the Yankees organization to move the 2017 home game versus Maryland to Yankee Stadium, where the Scarlet Knights have played three times since 2011 (including a regular-season road game versus Army and two appearances in the Pinstripe Bowl).

"There were discussions by the previous administration with the Yankees and an agreement in principle was reached,'' Hobbs said at the time. "I'm reviewing those terms and we'll announce our intention in due course. ... There are a tremendous amount of Rutgers alums who work here in the city. It's important for our relationship if we can be with an iconic organization like the Yankees. They have a lot of the history that we would like to start building at Rutgers.''

The end result is a football-wrestling doubleheader not unlike what Rutgers is hosting this season on Nov. 19. In what's being billed as the "Battle at the Birthplace,'' the Rutgers and Princeton wrestling teams will contest an outdoor match on mats set up on the High Point Solution Stadium turf hours before the Scarlet Knights football team will play host to Penn State. The goal, Rutgers officials say, is to shatter the wrestling team's total attendance of 17,464 from the 2015-16 season in a single match.

"It is an incredible opportunity for our program to be compete inside Yankee Stadium,'' said Rutgers wrestling coach Scott Goodale, whose team is fresh off completing the most successful campaign in program history.

Rutgers wrestling has sold a record number of season tickets for 2016-17, surpassing the 1,000-ticket plateau.

"We are absolutely honored to wrestle inside one of the greatest cathedrals in all of sport," Goodale said. "I don't think we ever envisioned this when we started here 10 years ago. This is significant not only for the Rutgers and Maryland programs, but for the sport of wrestling. We sincerely thank Pat Hobbs, the University of Maryland and the New York Yankees for making this wrestling milestone a reality.''

Rutgers coach Chris Ash, whose football program has split two games against Maryland since joining the Big Ten together at the start of the 2014 campaign, echoed that sentiment.

"We are excited to be a part of this event, bringing together college football and wrestling at one of the most iconic venues in sports," Ash said. "The Scarlet Knight fan base is passionate about both its football and wrestling programs and the opportunity to play at Yankee Stadium offers a unique platform.''

In July, Hobbs and Ash told NJ Advance Media that Rutgers and Maryland have had preliminary discussions about starting a trophy for the winner of the annual football game between the East Division rivals.

"Chris and I have talked about it, and we've had initial conversations with Maryland," Hobbs said. "We want to do everything we can to promote all of our games across the Big Ten. But Maryland is obviously a unique opportunity given its location, and so if we can do so if we can do some fun things around that and build a rivalry, I think it's important -- and we'll continue to have those conversations.''

The Scarlet Knights own a 7-5-1 series advantage against Maryland on the mat, including wins in both meetings since they joined the Big Ten.

On the gridiron, Maryland leads 6-5 in a series that began in 1920. In 2014, Rutgers overcame a 25-point deficit to win at Maryland and Maryland returned the favor with a 21-point rally at Rutgers in 2015.

The football teams will meet Nov. 26 to conclude the 2016 regular season. On the mat, Rutgers will face Maryland in College Park, Md., on Dec. 11.

Keith Sargeant may be reached at ksargeant@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @KSargeantNJ. Find NJ.com Rutgers Football on Facebook.