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. 

Winning one of the closest elections in U.S. history, Republican challenger Richard Nixon defeated Vice President Hubert
Humphrey November 5, 1968. Because of the strong showing
of third-party candidate George Wallace, neither Nixon nor
Humphrey received more than 50 percent of the popular vote;
Nixon beat Humphrey by less than 500,000 votes. 

Nixon campaigned on a platform designed to reach the “silent
majority” of middle class and working class Americans. He
promised to “bring us together again,” and many Americans,
weary after years of antiwar and civil rights protests, were
happy to hear of peace returning to their streets. Foreign
policy was also a major factor in the election.

Andrew Lewis Prine (February 14, 1936 – October 31, 2022)

Prine was a film, stage, and television character actor. He
died of natural causes while vacationing in Paris at age 86.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and in such television
series as Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Virginian, and Wagon
Train.
     
       
     
      
      
    
    
    
    
   

Andrew Prine in the NBC-TV miniseries “V” (1983)

(Fox News/ AP) – NASCAR legend Jimmie Johnson (above) pulled a
Tom Brady on the racing world. After announcing his retirement
back in 2020, he will be making his comeback as part-owner and
driver of Petty GMS in 2023. He expects to enter about five races — including the Daytona 500.