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The first American football game played outside of the United States was the October 23, 1874, game between McGill and Harvard played at Montreal Cricket Grounds. American football in Europe first began with the 1897 École des Beaux-Arts vs. Académie Julian football game.
November 1890 was an active time in the sport. In Baldwin City, Kansas, on November 22, 1890, college football was first played in the state of Kansas. Baker beat Kansas 22–9. [41] On the 27th, Vanderbilt played Nashville (Peabody) at Athletic Park and won 40–0. It was the first time organized football played in the state of Tennessee. [42]
The first organized football games in Texas involving a college both occurred November 30, 1893. Texas defeated the Dallas Football Club 18–16 at Fair Park in Dallas; while Austin College defeated a Dallas club team 16–4 in Sherman. [98] ND November 3, 1894 North Dakota: North Dakota State: Grand Forks, North Dakota: 24–6
A football field as seen from behind one end zone. The tall, yellow goal posts mark where the ball must pass for a successful field goal or extra point. The large, rectangular area marked with the team name is the end zone. Football games are played on a rectangular field that measures 120 yards (110 m) long and 53 + 1 ⁄ 3 yards (48.
Baseball evolved in New York City in the early part of the 19th century, with the first organized league, the National Association of Base Ball Players, emerging in 1857. It would eventually be the first team sport in the United States to be professionalized with the 1869 founding of the original Cincinnati Red Stockings (from whom the modern ...
The NFL was the first professional football league to successfully establish a nationwide presence, after several decades of failed attempts. [ citation needed ] Only two founding members are still in the league, the Decatur Staleys (now the Chicago Bears ) and the Racine Cardinals (founded in 1898, joined the NFL in 1920, now the Arizona ...
This 1962 meeting between Texas and Rice took place less than two months after John F. Kennedy's famed "We choose to go to the Moon" speech.
The modern history of American football can be considered to have begun after the 1932 NFL Playoff Game, which was the first American football game to feature hash marks, the legalization of the forward pass anywhere behind the line of scrimmage, and the movement of the goal posts back to the goal line; it was also the first indoor game since 1902.