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First College Football GamePrinceton at Rutgers. The 1869 Princeton vs. Rutgers football game was played between Princeton and Rutgers on November 6, 1869, though to call this game American Football as it is played today is a stretch. The game more resembled an athletic competition between two universities more akin to a game of soccer.
The 1869 college football season was the first season of intercollegiate football in the United States. While played using improvised rules more closely resembling soccer and rugby than modern gridiron football, it is traditionally considered the inaugural college football season. The 1869 season consisted of only two games, both between ...
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.
Left: "The Foot-Ball Match", a news article on the first college football game ever played, published in The Targum, the Rutgers University student newspaper, in November 1869. Right: A plaque on College Avenue on the campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey commemorating the location where the first college football game was ...
The 1892 Wyoming Seminary vs. Mansfield State Normal football game, played September 28, 1892, was the first-ever American football game played at night. [1] [2] The game was played between Wyoming Seminary (a private college preparatory school located in the Wyoming Valley of Northeastern Pennsylvania) and Mansfield State Normal School in Mansfield, Pennsylvania.
The event featured the first-ever indoor pro football games. The first professional indoor game came on December 29, 1902, when the Syracuse Athletic Club defeated the "New York team" 5–0. Syracuse would go on to win the 1902 Series, while the Franklin Athletic Club won the Series in 1903. The World Series only lasted two seasons. [3] [151]
The first college football game played indoors occurred at the Chicago Coliseum on Thanksgiving Day with the added novelty of a field lit with electric lighting. After the game, a Chicago newspaper proclaimed "indoor football is literally and figuratively speaking a howling success," noting that the game had been played "on its merits, without ...
Nicknamed "The Granddaddy of Them All" by broadcaster Keith Jackson, it was the first postseason football game ever established. [3] The Rose Bowl Game was first played in 1902 as the Tournament East–West football game, and has been played annually since 1916. Since 1945, it has been the highest attended college football bowl game. [4]