| First College Football Game Princeton at Rutgers | ||||||||||
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| Date | November 6, 1869 | |||||||||
| Season | 1869 | |||||||||
| Location | New Brunswick, New Jersey | |||||||||
| Attendance | 100 | |||||||||
The 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.[1] Therefore, the game more closely resembled association football|[2] than gridiron football. Moreover, the match was played with a regular football .[3] As a result, it is considered the first collegiate american football match and the birth of football in the United States.[4][5]
Because gridiron football developed from the rules of association football and rugby football, many also consider the game played on November 6 to be the first gridiron game and the first collegiate football game.[6] Rutgers won the game 6–4.[7]
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- ^ Best of the 1870s: The defining players and teams of college football’s first decade by Matt Brown on The Athletic, January 28, 2019
- ^ First ever college soccer football game Archived December 27, 2021, at the Wayback Machine on Pro Football Hall of Fame
- ^ First college football game played at Rutgers in 1869 by Shaunna Stuck, The Pitt News, 20 Sep 2002
- ^ "U.S. Soccer Timeline". U.S. Soccer. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
- ^ Wangerin, David (2008). Soccer in a football world : the story of America's forgotten game. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
- ^ Richmond, Sam (November 6, 2019). "1st college football game ever was New Jersey vs. Rutgers in 1869". NCAA. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
- ^ "1869 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
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