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Rutgers vs. Princeton in 1869 was the first organized football game. New Brunswick, New Jersey Most football historians agree that the first organized football game took place on November 6, 1869, when teams from Rutgers and Princeton universities met in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
The origins of American football began in 1869. The intercollegiate football game between Rutgers and Princeton took place at Rutgers in 1869. There is no record of what player scored the first touchdown.
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.
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Many American college football fans know that the first American inter-collegiate football game was played at New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1866. The a team from Princeton challenged Rutgers and lost in a one sided affair. With that said, football fans also know that before this so-called birth of American football was between Rutgers and Princeton, earlier skirmishes on an intramural basis began at Yale University in 1840. Thereafter, these types of intramural games were part of American college sports.
Rutgers won 6-4.
Although Ivy League schools had been playing various kicking-style games since the 1820s, the first recognized intercollegiate college football game took place in 1869 between Rutgers and Princeton. The game more resembled soccer than it did present day American football. Rutgers won the game 6-4.
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It was Rutgers College (Rutgers University) and The College of New Jersey (Princeton University).