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Not all records are meant to be broken...

There was a time before High Point Solutions Stadium was expanded in 2009 and long before Rutgers joined the Big Ten in 2014, when the 44,111 fans who attended the classic Rutgers-Louisville game in 2006 was a program record.

Some records are more difficult to break.

Here are 10 individual career, single-season and single-game records that seem well-positioned to stand the test of time.

Note: All information is attributed to the 2016 Rutgers football media guide.

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Tyronne Stowe, Most tackles (career)

533: Only two players in Rutgers' history have had three straight 100-tackle seasons: Stowe and Steve Longa.

Longa forfeited his final year of eligibility to enter the 2016 NFL Draft, but he would have needed 191 tackles to catch Stowe, whose career high of 157 in 1985 is second only to Brian Sheridan's 161 in 1997 among single-season leaders.

Stowe retired after 10 seasons in the NFL and now is a pastor in Arizona.

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Ray Rice, Most rushing yards (career)

4,926: Really, you could pick any of Rice's career rushing records, including attempts (910), touchdowns (49) and 100-yard games (25).

Considering Rice only played three seasons, it's remarkable that he has an 1,812-yard lead in the category.

What's more remarkable? No. 2 Terrell Willis also played only three seasons.

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Mohamed Sanu, Most receptions (season)

115: It's risky to put any receiving record on the list now that Rutgers will be running a spread offense, but look at it this way: In 2011, Sanu not only smashed the program record of 87 set by Kenny Britt, he also broke future NFL Hall of Famer Larry Fitzgerald's Big East record.

If Rutgers was in the Big Ten at the time, Sanu's 115 catches would be No. 2 all-time behind Chris Daniels of Purdue in 1999.

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Leonte Carroo, Most touchdown catches (career)

29: Until the mid-2000s, Chris Brantley held this record with 17.

Then Kenny Britt tied Brantley in 2008, Tim Brown surpassed both of them with 20 and Brandon Coleman tied Brown. Mark Harrison managed 18 as well.

All of those numbers pale in comparison to Carroo's 29, which is made even more impressive considering he did not make a single catch during his freshman season.

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Mike Teel, Passing touchdowns (game)

7: Mike Teel, Gary Nova and Ryan Hart all own career passing records at Rutgers, but Teel's Senior Night performance against Louisville on Dec. 4, 2008 is one to remember.

Teel eclipsed Scott Erney for the single-game record with 447 passing yards and also broke his own program record on his seventh touchdown pass.

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Howard Talman, Points scored (game)

48: When you won the first-ever college football game -- as Rutgers did in 1869 -- you are bound to have some records that stand the test of time.

Howard Talman's 48-point performance -- six touchdowns and 12 PATs -- against Rennsselaer Polytechnic Institute on Sept. 15, 1915 is more than 100 years old. Rutgers prevailed 96-0 -- the most it ever has scored -- in that game.

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Janarion Grant & Nate Jones, longest kickoff return

100: Unless college football adapts the NFL rule that counts unmarked end zone yardage, this record can't be broken -- only tied -- because it already it has the maximum field length.

Jones, a former Big East Special Teams Player of the Year, had 100-yeard kickoff return touchdowns twice in 2002. Grant, who already holds Rutgers career kickoff return yardage record with one year to play in his career, went the distance once in 2013 and once in 2015.

The same basic principle applies to Paul Rivers' 100-yard fumble return for a touchdown against Pittsburgh on Oct. 28, 1995.

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Nate Toran, Sacks (career)

52: Sack got a later start than most statistics, but Nate Toran's dominance in the category is practically unmatched.

Toran has the three highest single-season sack totals in Rutgers history -- 19 in 1974, 17 in 1976 and 16 in 1975. His total of 52 towers over teammates Dan Gray (29) and Dino Mangiero (26), who are second and tied for third, respectively on the list.

Jamal Westerman's 26 from 2005-08 are the highest total since 1980.

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Jeremy Ito, Field goals (career)

80: Even with the popularity of four-year kickers, it's going to take averaging more than 20 field goals per season to top what Ito did from 2005-08.

Believe it or not, he did more than just make one kick to beat Louisville in 2006.

Only four times has a Rutgers kicker converted 20 or more field goals in a season -- and Ito is responsible for three of them. San San Te is No. 2 with 64 career field goals.

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Frank Burns, winning percentage (season, career)

1.000 & .639: While Greg Schiano is heralded for building Rutgers into a consistent winner in the 2000s, his career record over 11 seasons was 68-67 because he got off to a 3-20 start.

It's often the case today that new coaches -- like Chris Ash -- are taking over programs that need to rebuild and thus it takes a few years to chase .500.

But Burns built off the success of predecessors Harvey Harman (74-44-2) and John Bateman (73-51) and went 78-43-1 from 1973-83, matching Bateman's undefeated 1961 team with a perfect run of his own in 1976.