The first "football" game played between teams representing colleges was an unfamiliar ancestor of today's College Football, as it was played under 99 years old soccer-style Association rules. The game between teams from Rutgers College (now Rutgers University) and the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) took place on November 6, 1869 at College Field (now the site of the College Avenue Gymnasium at Rutgers University) in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
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BLACKBURN ROVERS V WEST BROMWICH (UK 1898) Dir: Arthur Cheetham; 35mm, 42ft, 1' (16fps) The earliest surviving film of an actual game, played between the English sides Blackburn Rovers and West Bromwich Albion (in stripes) at Blackburn in September 1898. Originally 250ft in length, the film was taken from a single viewpoint behind one goal and shows action from both halves of the match. Blackburn won 4-0.
The first documented game of a sport called football was November 6, 1869 between Rutgers College (now Rutgers University) and the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University).
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The first intercollegiate football game was played on November 6, 1869 between Rutgers and Princeton with Rutgers winning 6-4.
November. The first Army-Navy football game was played November 29, 1890 at West Point with Navy winning 24-0.
The military bases played the game first.