FIRST COLLEGE FOOTBALL GAME IN 1869
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.
This is a group portrait of the Rutgers College 1891
football team, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
FUTURE PRESIDENT MARRIED ON THIS DAY
First day as newlyweds- Laura Welch and George Walker
Bush.
On November 5, 1977, 31-year-old future President George W.
Bush marries 31-year-old Laura Welch at the First United
Methodist Church in her hometown of Midland, Texas.
A pose with George’s parents, George H.W. Bush and
Barbara Bush.
ICONIC ACTRESS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1913
Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh ( born Vivian Mary Hartley)
(5 November 1913 – 8 July 19)
British actress Vivien Leigh won the Academy Award
for Best Actress twice, for her performances as
Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and
Blanche DuBois in the film version of A Streetcar
Named Desire (1951), a role she had also played on
stage in London’s West End in 1949.
She also won a Tony Award for her work in the
Broadway musical version of Tovarich (1963).
Although her career had periods of inactivity, in
1999 the American Film Institute ranked Leigh as
the 16th-greatest female movie star of classic
Hollywood cinema.
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