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First Intercollegiate Match

Name: First Intercollegiate Match
Start: 1869-11-06
Location: a field on College Avenue (now the site of the College Avenue Gymnasium)

When: 1869-11-06
Where: a field on College Avenue (now the site of the College Avenue Gymnasium)
Part of: Rutgers defeats Princeton in the first college football game

Rutgers defeated Princeton 6–4 in New Brunswick on November 6, 1869, marking the first intercollegiate soccer game in the United States.

Princeton students arrived in New Brunswick at 10 a.m., and the students entered the Rutgers field at 3 p.m. that afternoon, on a field on College Avenue (now the site of the College Avenue Gymnasium). Rutgers scored the final two goals to win 6–4. The match was played under Rutgers' rules, based on the 1863 Football Association code, disallowing carrying or throwing the ball.

Sources

1869 Princeton vs. Rutgers football game Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-27

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