South Hamilton Resident Makes His Mark on Renssalaer Football Team

Rudolph ”R.J.” Pizzano of South Hamilton is a member of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) football team, which is off to a 4-2 start.

Pizzano is a junior majoring in economics.

Rensselaer earned a three-game winning streak, including two victories coming in Liberty League action, before its Oct. 9 loss to St. Lawrence University. The Rensselaer Engineers, who played in the post-season last year, are coached by Ralph Isernia.

Founded in 1824, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is America’s oldest technological research university. For nearly two centuries, the Institute has been a driving force behind breakthroughs in engineering and science in virtually every arena--from transportation and infrastructure to business, medicine, outer space, and cyberspace.

As it approaches its bicentennial anniversary, the Institute continues to define The New Polytechnic, a new paradigm for teaching, learning, and research that uses advanced technologies to enable fresh collaborations across disciplines, sectors, and regions, in order to answer the global challenges of our day.