The First College Football Game

"You men will come to no Christian end!"  Rutgers vs. Princeton 140 years ago on Nov. 6th 1869, Allen Barra lays out a nice story on the first college football game ever played.

Note how the rules of the game were set.

Here's something I didn't know.  Mr. Magoo, in a video below pitching Stag Beer, was possibly based on one of the student fans at the game.

Here is another account of that first game.