| 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-based Football Association's 1863 rules that disallowed carrying or throwing the ball.[1][2][3][4][5]
Additionally, 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 American 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
- ^ America and the 1863 Football Association Code by Melvin Smith on Society for American Soccer History, 6 Oct 2015
- ^ "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. ISBN 978-1-59213-885-2. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
- ^ Allaway, Roger (March 26, 2001). "West Hudson: A Cradle of American Soccer". ussoccerhistory.org. Retrieved July 29, 2024.
- ^ 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.