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FIRST COLLEGE FOOTBALL GAME PLAYED

November 6, 1869: College Students Become Obsessed With A New Game - This Day of History

On November 6, 1869, Rutgers beat 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,
resembled rugby instead of today’s football.


The first college football game ever was New Jersey (later known as Princeton) versus Rutgers ...

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18 Panel Brown Leather Football. 6 Lace Hole Soccer Ball. c1940.

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