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 |
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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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