The 1869 New Jersey vs. Rutgers football game is a college football match between New Jersey Tigers and Queensmen Rutgers played on November 6, 1869. The game is considered to be the first ever college football (soccer) game ever played, but also seen as the first American football game ever played by some because of the rules in which the game was played more like American football. The rules of the game are based on a set of early rules of the Football Association of London, which has recently become the most popular set of rules for football games at the time. The game, along with a split between the FA rules and the Rugby Football Union rules, is driving events that will lead to the development of modern American football over the next few decades.
Rutgers won the game 6-4.
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Part of the first season of college football ever played, the game took place on 6 November 1869 in a field on College Avenue (now College Avenue Gymnasium site) in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Since the game is played in Rutgers, it is also played under Rutgers rules. They were based on the Football Association rules of the day, in which two teams of 25 players attempted to score by kicking the ball into the opposing team's goal. Throwing or carrying a ball is not allowed. The team plays 10 "matches" against each other. When a team scores, it counts as the end of the game, and the team with the most goals after 10 matches is the winner.
William J. Leggett, then a prominent minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, was the captain of Rutgers; William Gummere, then Supreme Court Justice of New Jersey, became captain of the Princeton team. The game was played in front of about 100 spectators. The players from Rutgers wore red turbans and handkerchiefs to distinguish themselves from Princeton players. The red color of the Scarlet Rutgers Knight comes from this episode.
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Gameplay
As the first of 10 starts, two players from each team position themselves near the opposing goal. This may be because the participants hope to easily score when the ball reaches their territory on the playing field. On each team, there are eleven people called "field officers" who are assigned to defend their own territory. There were 12 participants in each team they named "bulldogs" who were the ones who played in other teams.
Rutgers was the first to score, as was S.G. Gano and G.R. Dixon managed to kick the ball past Princeton's goal. At some point at the beginning of the contest, the game "flying wedge" was first used when the team with the ball formed a formation of players like a wall, allowing them to attack the defender. This flying slicer tactic was an early success for Rutgers because of their weakness at Princeton. However, Princeton replied to the tactics when J.E. Michael, better known as "Big Mike", broke up wedge flying Rutgers during the fourth game. Princeton took advantage and tied the score at 2-2.
A Rutgers player named Madison M. Ball, a wounded American Civil War veteran, uses his speed and kicks the ball with his heel to regain the lead in the contest. Every time the ball enters Rutgers territory, Ball will be in front of it and use a heel kick to prevent Princeton from scoring. The ball managed to use the technique to set Dixon to score another goal that gave Rutgers a 4-2 advantage. Rutgers then allowed Princeton to score as one of their players, whose identity was unknown, had kicked the ball towards their own goal. It was blocked by Rutgers players, but Princeton could immediately take advantage to cut the lead to 4-3. Princeton scored on their next possession when they used their own fly slicing game led by Big Mike to line up on the field for the score to tie the game again in 4th.
Captain Rutgers John W. Leggett has a strategy for his team at the moment. He suggested that the Rutgers team keep the low ball on the ground to fight a much higher player in the Princeton team. This strategy seemed to work when Rutgers easily scored the last two goals of the contest to win the first ever college football game ever played 6 games to 4.
Princeton has a larger size, which would normally be an advantage on the pitch with 50 players total, but the Tigers have trouble kicking the ball as a team that is something Rutgers does very well. In the 1933 account, a Rutgers player of the game named John W. Herbert said that he thought Rutgers was a smaller team, but they had more speed than Princeton.
Aftermath
In what might be regarded as the beginning of a college football competition, as soon as Rutgers wins this match, Princeton players are completely run out of town by the winning Rutgers students. Princeton students reportedly jumped in their coaches and quickly traveled 20 miles back to their campus.
In 1968, Arnold Friberg was commissioned by Chevrolet to make paintings commemorating the match. His work The First Game is one of four works he created to celebrate 100 years of college football.
See also
- 1869 college football season
- List of historically significant college soccer matches
- List of the first college football games in every US state
- First Game
References
External links
- # 58.5 - The First Inter-College Football Game That's One Sports Show.
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