An illustration of the first football game held on Nov. 6,
1869 (Photo: Special Collections and University Archives)

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.

Even off the playing fields, the rivalry between the New Jersey
schools, located 20 miles apart, was heated. At the time,
Princeton was known as the College of New Jersey. 

(Fox News) – "The Wizard of Oz,"(1939) the Hollywood epic
beloved by generations of Americans for its fantastical
allegory rooted in love of heartland, home and family,
appeared on the CBS television network for the first time
on this date in history, Nov. 3, 1956. 

Suffragist organizers held the first-ever National Women’s
Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts on this day
in 1850. 

More than 1,000 delegates from 11 states arrived for the two-
day conference, which had been planned by members of the
Anti-Slavery Society.

The convention followed the steps laid out at the landmark
Seneca Falls Convention two years before.

Abby Kelley Foster (1811-1887)

During her remarkable life, Abby helped develop
plans for the first National Woman’s Rights
Convention.

TIM MAGUIRE

I Love Lucy is a television sitcom that originally aired 
on CBS from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, with
a total of 180 half-hour episodes, spanning six seasons. 

The show starred Lucille Ball, her husband, Desi Arnaz
(above), along with Vivian Vance and  William Frawley.
 

On October 11, 1975, Saturday Night Live (SNL), a topical comedy
sketch show featuring Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd,
Gilda Radner, Garrett Morris, Jane Curtin and Laraine Newman,
made its debut on NBC. The 90-minute program, which from its
inception has been broadcast live from Studio 8H at Rockefeller
Center, included a different guest host and musical act each week.

The opening sketch of each show ends with one actor saying,
“Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!”

Gilda Radner

Chris Farley