1869 New Jersey vs. Rutgers football game
| First College Football Game New Jersey vs. Rutgers |
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| Date | November 6, 1869 | |||||||||
| Season | 1869 | |||||||||
| Stadium | College Field | |||||||||
| Location | New Brunswick, New Jersey | |||||||||
| Attendance | 100 | |||||||||
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The 1869 New Jersey vs. Rutgers football game was a college football game between the College of New Jersey (now the Princeton Tigers) and the Rutgers Queensmen played on November 6, 1869. The game's rules were based on the London Football Association's early set of rules, which had recently become the most popular set of rules for the game of football at the time. The game, along with the schism between the FA's rules and the rules of the Rugby Football Union, set in motion the events which would lead to the development of modern American football during the following decades. The game is considered to have been the first American football game ever played, but also is seen as being the first college soccer game by some due to the rules under which the game was played more closely resembling soccer.
Rutgers won the game 6–4.
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