Editing Plainfield, New Jersey (section)

==Plainfield Teacher's College hoax==
[[Plainfield Teacher's College]] was a mythical institution created as a hoax by a duo of college football fans in 1941. The phony college's equally nonexistent football team had its scores carried by major newspapers including ''[[The New York Times]]'' before the hoax was discovered.<ref>Johnson, Bruce. [http://www.goleader.com/05oct13/16.pdf#search='plainfield%20teachers%20football%20hoax' "Plainfield State and Chung Were Too Good to Be True"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070620154241/http://www.goleader.com/05oct13/16.pdf#search='plainfield%20teachers%20football%20hoax' |date=June 20, 2007 }}, ''Westfield Leader'', October 13, 2005. Accessed May 13, 2007. "Never heard of Plainfield State? Well, that's because neither Plainfield State Teachers College nor Johnny Chung actually existed... On the spur of the moment, he decided to call The New York Times and said, 'I want to report a score... Plainfield Teachers 21 (his secretary was from Plainfield) ... Regency 12.' The next morning, there was the score in The New York Times!"</ref><ref>Christine, Bill. [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/16/sports/ncaafootball/the-41-season-at-plainfield-teachers-college-when-every-play-was-a-fake.html "The Greatest Hoax in Sports Agate History (Yes, The Times Fell for It, Too)"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 15, 2016. Accessed January 15, 2016. "Harold Rosenthal, who worked on the rewrite desk at The Herald Tribune, answered the phone. Mr. Newburger told him that Plainfield Teachers College had beaten Winona, 27-3. 'Plainfield Teachers?' Mr. Rosenthal said. 'That a New Jersey school?' Mr. Newburger said yes. The name had settled in his mind because his secretary was from Plainfield, N.J."</ref>