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November 6th Marked the Anniversary of Rutgers University and Princeton Playing the first Intercollegiate Football Game

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the staff of the Ridgewood blog

New Brunswick NJ, Rutgers University and its neighbor, Princeton, played the first game of intercollegiate football on Nov. 6, 1869, on a plot of ground where the present-day Rutgers gymnasium now stands in New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers won that first game, 6-4.


The game was played with two teams of 25 men each under rugby-like rules, but like modern football, it was “replete with surprise, strategy, prodigies of determination, and physical prowess,” to use the words of one of the Rutgers players.

2 thoughts on “November 6th Marked the Anniversary of Rutgers University and Princeton Playing the first Intercollegiate Football Game

  1. Wisconsin celebrated at New Brunswick yesterday to the tune of 52-3.

  2. Are they suing for reparations?
    I mean they were college athletes who did not get paid…

    Asking for a friend.

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