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FIRST COLLEGE FOOTBALL GAME IN 1869

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Rutgers-Princeton football game of 1869, by William Boyd.

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,
resembles rugby instead of today’s football.

The First College Football Game Looked Nothing Like Today’s Game Day Spectacles. | History Daily
This is a group portrait of the Rutgers College 1891
football team, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

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How the Football Has Changed Since 1869 – Scout Life magazine
                  How the Football Has Changed Since 1869 – Scout Life magazine

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COLLEGE THANKSGIVING FOOTBALL GAME

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Wood engraving from Harper’s Weekly magazine depicts on
field action during a football match between Yale and
Princeton on Thanksgiving Day, November 1876.

On November 30, 1876, Yale defeated Princeton, 2-0, in Hoboken,
New Jersey in the first collegiate football game played on
Thanksgiving. Nearly 1,000 fans attend the game, played in cold,
rainy weather. "The friends of both colleges mustered in good
force," the New York Times reports. "Several carriages containing
ladies were on the ground, and a goodly number of Alumni were
there to cheer the contestants."

The football was oval and made of leather, the Times noted,
"similar to those used in Rugby Union rules." The game
resembled rugby more than a present-day football game.

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THANKSGIVING COLLEGE FOOTBALL GAME

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On November 30, 1876, Yale defeated Princeton, 2-0, in Hoboken,
New Jersey in the first collegiate football game played on the Thanksgiving holiday. Nearly 1,000 fans attended the game,
played in cold, rainy weather. "The friends of both colleges
mustered in good force," the New York Times reports. "Several
carriages containing ladies were on the ground, and a goodly
number of Alumni were there to cheer the contestants."

The football was oval and made of leather, the Times noted,
"similar to those used in Rugby Union rules." The game
resembled rugby more than a present-day game of football. 

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FILM WAS RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN 1978

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The movie "Animal House" made John Belushi a movie star,
inspired countless other comedies like it and made toga parties
cool.

PHOTO: Cast of Animal House

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John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982)

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IT WAS A FIRST ON THIS DAY IN 1866

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Lucy B. Hobbs became the first woman to graduate from
a dental school, the Ohio College of Dental Surgery in 
Cincinnati.

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