Rutgers University's president says he's embarrassed after Princeton University's cannon was painted red.
Rutgers and the Ivy League school have feuded over ownership of the cannon since 1777 and Rutgers students have been painting it red for decades.
A Princeton spokesman told NJ.com that campus security discovered the cannon was painted red early Tuesday. Martin Mbugua also says Princeton's tiger statue near Nassau Hall was also vandalized with graffiti and expletives directed at Princeton and Pennsylvania State University.
No one was caught.
Rutgers President Robert Barchi wrote Princeton's president that his school would be "deeply embarrassed and diminished" if the graffiti was the work of its students. Barchi offered to send students to help clean the cannon.
Princeton repainted the cannon by Wednesday.
