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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Including College Football: Rutgers and Princeton.
First pro teams: Canton Bulldogs and the Akron Pros.
Oldest two pro teams still in existence: Chicago Bears and Arizona Cardinals.
Rutgers and Princeton played their first intercollegiate football game on November 6, 1869, and only those two schools can trace back the history of their programs that far. Of course, at the time the sport much more closely resembled soccer than modern football.
The first college football game was played in 1869 between Rutgers and Princeton. The first NFL game was played in 1920 between Dayton and Columbus.
Novembe 6 1869 Rutegers V Princeton.played by London football association rule,thus American football began to take shape
The first player to be paid for playing football was William Heffelfinger who was paid $500 to play for the Allegheny Athletic Association in a game against the Pittsburgh Athletic Club in 1892.
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He didn't play on any NFL Football Teams, but he played for Yale University.
Nat Northington, who attended the University of Kentucky, was the first African American to play in a football game for an SEC school. The year was 1967 and the game was against the University of Mississippi.
On October 3, 1920, the Chicago Bears, then known as the Decatur Staleys, played their first football game. They defeated the Moline Universal Tractors, 20-0.