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- 1879 – Football was let loose off of East Coast campuses and made its way to the Midwest. Michigan and Racine College were the first teams west of Pennsylvania, shortly followed by the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and Minnesota.
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The following is a list of the first college football game in each U.S. state and the District of Columbia. Games included on this list are the earliest recorded single intercollegiate football games in each member state of the United States.
StateDateHomeVisitorNJNYNovember 2, 1872CTNovember 16, 1872VANovember 2, 1873The 1869 Princeton vs. Rutgers football game was played between Princeton and Rutgers on November 6, 1869. The rules governing play were based on the London Football Association 's 1863 rules that disallowed carrying or throwing the ball.
Sep 8, 2024 · The first college football game on the radio was the contest between West Virginia University and Pittsburgh University on Oct. 8, 1921, broadcast on Pittsburgh radio station KDKA-AM.
The first game was played on November 6 at Rutgers' campus, and the second was played on November 13 at Princeton's campus. Both games were won by the home team. The first college football national championship was awarded retroactively to the two teams.
On November 6, 1869, students from The College of New Jersey (now Princeton) traveled to New Brunswick, New Jersey to play Rutgers College (now Rutgers University) in what has been called the first intercollegiate American football game before 100 spectators.
Sep 2, 2021 · On November 6, 1869, Rutgers beats Princeton, 6-4, in the first college football game. The game, played with a soccer ball before roughly 100 fans in New Brunswick, New Jersey, resembles...
The game took place in Bristol, Tennessee on September 10, 2016 during a college match up between Tennessee and Virginia Tech. *Note: The first professional football game was played on November 12, 1892 at a recreation park near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And the NFL did not play its first game until 1920.
