1869 college football season

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The 1869 college football season was the first season of intercollegiate football in the United States. The teams played using improvised rules more closely resembling soccer and rugby than modern gridiron football, it is traditionally considered the inaugural college football season. The 1869 season consisted of only two games, both between Rutgers College, now known as Rutgers University, and the College of New Jersey, now known as Princeton University. The first game was played on November 6, 1869, at Rutgers' campus, and the second was played on November 13, 1869, at Princeton's campus. Both games were won by the home team. The first college football national championship was awarded retroactively to the two teams. Princeton was named the champion by the Billingsley Report and the National Championship Foundation, while college football research historian Parke H. Davis named Rutgers and Princeton co-champions. Various other ratings and retrospectives have rated the teams differently...

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