List of the first college football game in each US state

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The following is a list of the first college football game in each US state and the District of Columbia. Games included on this list are the earliest recorded single intercollegiate football games in each member state of the United States.

Date Home Visitor Location Final score Notes
November 6, 1869 Rutgers New Jersey (now Princeton) New Brunswick, New Jersey 6–4 First organized intercollegiate football in New Jersey. Considered the first American football game ever played.[1]
November 2, 1872 Columbia Rutgers New York, New York 0–0 First organized intercollegiate football in New York.[2]
November 16, 1872 Yale Columbia New Haven, Connecticut 3–0 First organized intercollegiate football in Connecticut.[3] First game in New England. The game is essentially soccer with 20-man sides, played on a field 400 by 250 feet. Yale wins 3-0, Tommy Sherman scoring the first goal and Lew Irwin the other two.[4]
November 2, 1873 Washington and Lee VMI Lexington, Virginia 4–2 First organized intercollegiate football in Virginia. First game in the south.[5] Some industrious students of the two schools organized a game for October 23, 1869 – but it was rained out.[6] Students of the University of Virginia were playing pickup games of the kicking-style of football as early as 1870, and some accounts even claim it organized a game against Washington and Lee College in 1871. But no record has been found of the score of this contest. Due to scantness of records of the prior matches some will claim Virginia v. Pantops Academy November 13, 1887 as the first game in Virginia.
May 14, 1874 Harvard McGill Cambridge, Massachusetts 3–0 First organized intercollegiate football in Massachusetts.[7]
November 6, 1875 Bates (ME) Tufts JV (MA) Lewiston, Maine 1–0 After the first game against Harvard, Tufts took its squad to Bates College for the first football game played in Maine.[8]
November 11, 1876 Penn Princeton Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 6–0 First organized intercollegiate football in Pennsylvania.[9]
November 13, 1878 Brown Amherst Providence, Rhode Island 1–0 First organized intercollegiate football in Rhode Island.[citation needed]
May 30, 1879 Michigan Racine College (WI) Chicago, Illinois 1–0 First organized intercollegiate football in Illinois. The Chicago Daily Tribune called it "the first rugby-football game to be played west of the Alleghenies."[10]
November 1, 1879 Michigan Toronto Detroit, Michigan 0–0 First organized intercollegiate football in Michigan.[11]
April 9, 1880 Kentucky University Centre Stoll Field. Lexington, Kentucky 13¾–0 First organized intercollegiate football in Kentucky when Kentucky University defeated Centre.[12][13] Another claim to the first game in the south.[14]
September 30, 1882 Hamline Minnesota Saint Paul, Minnesota 2–0 First organized intercollegiate football in Minnesota.[15][16] First game west of the Mississippi River.[citation needed]
October 31, 1882 Dartmouth McGill Hanover, New Hampshire 1–0 First organized intercollegiate football in New Hampshire.[citation needed]
November 30, 1882 Navy Johns Hopkins Annapolis, Maryland 8–0 First organized intercollegiate football in Maryland. It snowed heavily before the game, to the point where players for both teams had to clear layers of snow off of the field, making large piles of snow along the sides of the playing ground. The field was 110 yards by 53 yards, with goalposts 25 feet (7.6 m) apart and 20 feet (6.1 m) high. The first half of the game went scoreless; the Baltimore American reported that "the visitors pushed Navy every place but over the goal line in the first half".[17] During play, the ball was kicked over the seawall a number of times, once going so far out it had to be retrieved by boat before play could continue.[17][18]
November 20, 1883 Gallaudet Georgetown Washington, D.C. 13–0 Organized intercollegiate football was first played in Washington, D.C.[19]
May 31, 1884 Butler DePauw Greencastle, Indiana 16–0 Organized intercollegiate football was first played in Indiana.[20]
April 11, 1885 Colorado College Denver Colorado Springs, Colorado 12–0 First intercollegiate game in the state of Colorado. The CC Athletic Association responded to a challenge from the University of Denver by scheduling a game early on April 11. A severe windstorm that morning forced postponement of the game until the afternoon. [21]
November 6, 1886 Vermont Dartmouth Burlington, Vermont 91–0 First organized intercollegiate football in Vermont.[22]
October 18, 1888 Wake Forest North Carolina Raleigh, North Carolina 6–4 First intercollegiate game in the state of North Carolina.[23] The first "scientific game" occurred on Thanksgiving of the same year when North Carolina played Duke (then Trinity). Duke won 16 to 0.[24]
November 29, 1888 Racine[ambiguous] Lake Forest (IL)[ambiguous] Racine, Wisconsin 6–4 First intercollegiate game in the state of Wisconsin.[citation needed]
December 8, 1888 Miami (OH) Cincinnati Oxford, Ohio 0–0 First intercollegiate game in the state of Ohio.[citation needed]
1889 South Dakota State South Dakota South Dakota 6–6 First intercollegiate game in the state of South Dakota.[citation needed]
1889 USC Loyola Marymount Los Angeles, California 40–0 First intercollegiate game in the state of California.[25] First Pacific Coast game.[citation needed]
November 16, 1889 Grinnell Iowa Grinnell, Iowa 24–0 First intercollegiate game in the state of Iowa.[citation needed]
December 14, 1889 Wofford Furman Spartanburg, South Carolina 5–1 First intercollegiate game in the state of South Carolina.[26] The game featured no uniforms, no positions, and the rules were formulated before the game.[27] First game in the Deep South.
October 11, 1890 Swarthmore (Sophomores) Delaware Newark, Delaware 30–0 First intercollegiate game in the state of Delaware.[citation needed]
November 22, 1890 Baker Kansas Baldwin City, Kansas 22–9 First organized intercollegiate football in Kansas.[28]
November 27, 1890 Washington University (MO) Missouri Saint Louis, Missouri 28–0 First organized intercollegiate football in Missouri.[citation needed]
November 27, 1890 Vanderbilt Nashville (Peabody) Athletic Park. Nashville, Tennessee 40–0 First organized football in Tennessee.[29]
November 27, 1890 Washington College[ambiguous] Washington Tacoma, Washington 0–0 First organized intercollegiate football in Washington.[citation needed] First game in the Northwest.[citation needed]
February 14, 1891 Doane (NE) Nebraska Crete, Nebraska 18–0 First organized intercollegiate football in Nebraska.[citation needed]
November 28, 1891 West Virginia Washington & Jefferson Morgantown, West Virginia 72–0 First organized intercollegiate football in West Virginia.[30]
January 30, 1892 Georgia Mercer Herty Field. Athens, Georgia 7–6 First organized football in Georgia.[31]
November 25, 1892 Utah State Utah Logan, Utah 12–0 First organized football in Utah.[citation needed]
February 22, 1893 Auburn Alabama Lakeview Park. Birmingham, Alabama 32–22 First organized football in Alabama.[citation needed]
November 11, 1893 Mississippi Union (TN) Oxford, Mississippi 56–0 First organized football in Mississippi.[citation needed]
November 11, 1893 Oregon State Lewis & Clark (OR) Corvallis, Oregon 62–0 First organized football in Oregon.[citation needed]
November 25, 1893 Tulane LSU New Orleans, Louisiana 34–0 First organized intercollegiate football in Louisiana. The first intramural games in the state occurred at Tulane on New Year's Day, 1890 by dividing students into two teams.[32] The game was introduced to Tulane by Hugh and Thomas Bayne, who played the game at Yale University.[32]
January 1, 1894 New Mexico New Mexico State Albuquerque, New Mexico 18–6 First organized football in New Mexico.[citation needed] First game in the southwest.[citation needed]
May 20, 1894 Idaho Washington State Moscow, Idaho 22–0 First organized football in Idaho.[citation needed]
October 19, 1894 Texas Texas A&M Austin, Texas 38–0 First organized football in Texas.[citation needed]
November 3, 1894 North Dakota North Dakota State Grand Forks, North Dakota 20–4 First organized football in North Dakota.[citation needed]
November 7, 1895 Oklahoma Oklahoma City Terrors Norman, Oklahoma 34–0 The first college football game in Oklahoma Territory occurred on November 7, 1895 when the 'Oklahoma City Terrors' defeated the Oklahoma Sooners 34 to 0. The Terrors were a mix of Methodist college students and high schoolers.[33] The Sooners did not manage a single first down. By next season, Oklahoma coach John A. Harts had left to prospect for gold in the Arctic.[34][35] Organized football was first played in the territory on November 29, 1894 between the Oklahoma City Terrors and Oklahoma City High School. The high school won 24 to 0.[34]
November 25, 1895 Wyoming Northern Colorado Laramie, Wyoming 34–0 First organized intercollegiate football in Wyoming.[citation needed]
November 26, 1896 Nevada California JV[ambiguous] Reno, Nevada 40–0 First organized intercollegiate football in Nevada.[citation needed]
November 12, 1897 Montana Butte Business (MT) Missoula, Montana 20–4 First organized intercollegiate football in Montana.[citation needed]
November 25, 1897 Ouachita Baptist (AR) Arkansas Arkadelphia, Arkansas 24–0 First organized intercollegiate football in Arkansas.[citation needed]
November 30, 1899 Arizona Arizona State Tucson, Arizona 11–2 First organized intercollegiate football in Arizona.[citation needed]
November 22, 1901 Stetson FAC
predecessor of Florida
Jacksonville, Florida 6–0 First organized intercollegiate football in Florida in 1901.[36] A 7-game series between intramural teams from Stetson and Forbes occurred in 1894. The first intercollegiate game between official varsity teams was played on November 22, 1901. Stetson beat Florida Agricultural College at Lake City, one of the four forerunners of the University of Florida, 6-0, in a game played as part of the Jacksonville Fair.[37] A sure score by FAC was obstructed by a tree stump.[38]
November 30, 1909 Hawaii Punahou College Honolulu, Hawaii 23–0 First organized intercollegiate football in Hawaii.[citation needed]
January 1, 1949 University of Alaska Fairbanks Ladd Air Force Base Fairbanks, Alaska 0–0 First organized intercollegiate football in Alaska.[citation needed]

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