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HISTORY OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL 1860-1879

SCHOOLS WHOSE FIRST GAME WAS BETWEEN 1860-1879

1860-1869

1869 Princeton Tigers Ivy League

1869 Rutgers Scarlet Knights Big Ten 


1870-1879

1870 Columbia Lions Ivy League

1872 Yale Bulldogs Ivy League 

1874 Harvard Crimson Ivy League

1876 Northwestern Wildcats Big Ten 

1876 Penn Quakers Ivy League

1878 Brown Bears Ivy League

1879 Michigan Wolverines Big Ten 

1879 Navy Midshipmen American 

1879 UMass Minutemen Independent 

First college football game, Nov. 6, 1869 

Rutgers 6 Princeton 4

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