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- The Buckeyes' first game, played on Saturday, May 3, 1890, at Delaware, Ohio, against Ohio Wesleyan University, was a victory, but other projected spring games could not be arranged.
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The Buckeyes' first game, played on Saturday, May 3, 1890, at Delaware, Ohio, against Ohio Wesleyan University, was a victory, but other projected spring games could not be arranged. The Delaware County Historical Society has set a marker at the site of that game.
Ohio State students had first formed a football team in 1886 but they received additional guidance in the rules of modern gridiron football in 1887 from Joseph Frederick Firestone, a Columbus, Ohio resident who had previously played football at the Stevens Institute of Technology. [5]
YearCoachOverallConference2–1Perry Hale3–12–1Edwin Sweetland2–0–1Dec 28, 2008 · On the morning of May 3, 1890, Ohio Wesleyan University and The Ohio State University met at this location for a football game. It was the first game in Ohio State football history. Ohio Wesleyan had invited the newly organized team to a contest as part of OWU's May Day Weekend.
Early history (1890–1950) The first Ohio State football team of 1890. After early attempts at forming a team in 1886 (led by future Nebraska governor Chester Hardy Aldrich) and 1887, football was ultimately established at the university in 1890. [7]
Nov 16, 2020 · Nov. 1, 1880: The first home game Ohio State ever played was held at Recreation Park in German Village, where the Buckeyes suffered a 64-0 loss to the College of Wooster. The Buckeyes lost all three games that fall.
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May 3, 2008 · The plaque unveiled today commemorating the first football game in Ohio State history, at Ohio Wesleyan on May 3, 1890. D.L. The field where the Buckeyes and Ohio Wesleyan first met.
