Princeton and Rutger "split" the title in 1869 (both had 1-1 records).
The first non-Ivy League school to make a claim was Lafayette in 1896 (11-0-1 record), though Princeton also makes a claim to that title.
The first non-Ivy League, current division 1 program, to win a championship was Michigan in 1901. Harvard and Yale also made claims that year.
The first football season started in 1887.
The first American football game was a college game played in 1869. The National Football League was established in 1920.
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Yes, National Signing Day is the first day a high school senior can sign a National Letter of Intent for college football.
Super Bowl XXXVII was an American football game played on January 26, 2003 at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion following the 2002 regular season. The National Football Conference (NFC) champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers (15-4) won their first Super Bowl by defeating the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Oakland Raiders (13-6), 48-21.
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In college football there are no official national champions at the highest (FBS) level. However, there are "mythical national champions," which are based on consensus opinion. Michigan is the current consensus choice for champion of 1901, but Harvard and Yale also claim that they are national champions for that year. Harvard was the consensus choice of writers at that time, and if there had been an AP poll in 1901, they probably would have been a unanimous #1. Yale bases their claim on the fact that historian Parke Davis retroactively selected them as champion in 1933. But Harvard was 12-0, Yale was 11-1-1, and Harvard beat Yale 22-0. Michigan was first crowned the 1901 champion 40 years after the fact by the Helms Foundation. Most people today view Michigan as the champion. Which is like people 100 years from now considering Boise State the 2009 champion rather than Alabama.
The United States Football League existed between 1983-1985. The 1983 champion was the Michigan Panthers, the 1984 champion was the Philadelphia Stars, and the 1985 champion was the Baltimore Stars.
In college football there are no official national champions at the highest (FBS) level. However, there are "mythical national champions," which are based on consensus opinion. Michigan is the current consensus choice for champion of 1901, but Harvard and Yale also claim that they are national champions for that year. Harvard was the consensus choice of writers at that time, and if there had been an AP poll in 1901, they probably would have been a unanimous #1. Yale bases their claim on the fact that historian Parke Davis retroactively selected them as champion in 1933. But Harvard was 12-0, Yale was 11-1-1, and Harvard beat Yale 22-0. Michigan was first crowned the 1901 champion 40 years after the fact by the Helms Foundation. Most people today view Michigan as the champion. Which is like people 100 years from now considering Boise State the 2009 champion rather than Alabama.
Cornerback Morris Claiborne, the Dallas Cowboys' first selection in the 2012 National Football League college draft, wears No. 24.
The first official source of college football news was the NCAA. The first college football game was between Princeton and Rutgers University in 1869.
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