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College Avenue Field, New Brunswick, New Jersey. 6–4. First organized intercollegiate football game in New Jersey. The game was essentially soccer, but is considered the first college football game ever played. [2][3] NY. November 2, 1872. Columbia. Rutgers. Union Base Ball Club Grounds, Tremont, New York.
StateDateHomeVisitorNJNYNovember 2, 1872CTNovember 16, 1872VANovember 2, 1873Kansas played in the first NCAA-contracted nationally televised regular season college football game on September 20, 1952, against TCU. Along with Iowa , Missouri , Nebraska , and Washington University in St. Louis , Kansas was a charter member of the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1907, which evolved into the Big Eight Conference .
1910s. 1911. October 21 – Kansas beats Kansas State 6–0. After the teams did not play in 1910, this is the first game in a continuous series that has lasted more than 100 years – the sixth-longest continuous series in college football history. November 25 – Over 1,000 people gather in downtown Lawrence to watch a live scale model ...
The first Kansas-Missouri game was played at Exposition Park, Kansas City, on October 31, 1891. Kansas won, 22 to 8. [11] Kansas also claimed a 14-12 victory over the University of Iowa, but Iowa's record gives the result as 18-14 for the Hawkeyes.
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This timeline of college football in Kansas sets forth notable college football-related events that occurred in the state of Kansas.
1890s
•1890 •February 15 – The Kansas Intercollegiate Athletic Association is formed. •November 22 – The first official intercollegiate football game in the state of Kansas is played in Baldwin City, between the University of Kansas and Baker University. Baker wins, 22–9. •1891 •October 31 – The first playing of the "Border War" between Kansas and Missouri, in Kansas City, Missouri. Border War games are played Kansas City until 1911. In 1912, Kansas hosts the game for the first time in Lawrence. •1893 •African American Ed Haney plays on the football team for the University of Kansas. •November 30 – Kansas State competes in its first intercollegiate football game, against St. Mary's College. The Manhattan Mercury reports afterward on its front page: "About 30 spectators and lovers of the game accompanied our college foot ball team to St. Marys on Thanksgiving day and witnessed the defeat of St. Marys' college team by a score of 18 to 10."
1900s
•1902 •October 4 – Kansas State and Kansas play the first game of their long rivalry, a 16–0 Jayhawk win. •1904 •October 28 – Haskell College faces Carlisle at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, in front of a crowd of 12,000 people, in an early inter-sectional college football "championship" game. •1905 •October 6 – Cooper College (Sterling) plays Fairmount (Wichita State) in a night game – the first night college football game west of the Mississippi River. •December 25 – Washburn and Fairmount play an "experimental" game to test new rules. •1908 •November 26 – Kansas completes a 9–0 season and clinches the championship of the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the first major conference football title won by a state school.
1910s
•1911 •October 21 – Kansas beats Kansas State 6–0. After the teams did not play in 1910, this is the first game in a continuous series that has lasted more than 100 years – the sixth-longest continuous series in college football history. •November 25 – Over 1,000 people gather in downtown Lawrence to watch a live scale model reenactment of the Kansas Jayhawks game against Missouri. Game statistics were transmitted by telegraph. •1913 •Kansas State formally leaves the Kansas Intercollegiate Athletic Association to join the Missouri Valley and compete against the University of Kansas and other larger schools in the region.
•List of college athletic programs in Kansas
1.National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics "Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference"
2.Evans, Harold (August 1940). "College Football in Kansas". Kansas Historical Quarterly. pp. 285–311. http://www.kshs.org/p/kansas-historical-quarterly-college-football-in-kansas/12834. Retrieved September 11, 2012.
3.http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/blackhistory2008/columns/story?id=3254974
4."(unknown title)". The Manhattan Mercury. December 6, 1893.
5."Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-02-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20120211151059/http://www.mmbolding.com/Olyball/Olympic_Football.htm. Retrieved 2012-08-05.
6.DeLassus, David. "Wichita State Yearly Results (1905)". College Football Data Warehouse. http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_game_by_game.php?coachid=119&year=1905. Retrieved April 4, 2011.
Nov 19, 2023 · On Nov. 6, 1869, Princeton played Rutgers in New Brunswick, N.J. in “a soccer-style game with rules adapted from the London Football Association.”. This is considered the first intercollegiate game in America. The early beginning of gridiron football was rough at best.
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6 days ago · Charlie Riedel, AP Photo. Kansas wide receiver Trevor Wilson runs the ball during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Iowa State Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024, in Kansas City, Mo.
