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The event featured the first-ever indoor pro football games. The first professional indoor game came on December 29, 1902, when the Syracuse Athletic Club defeated the "New York team" 5–0. Syracuse would go on to win the 1902 Series, while the Franklin Athletic Club won the Series in 1903. The World Series only lasted two seasons. [3] [151]
The event featured the first-ever indoor pro football games. The first professional indoor game came on December 29, 1902, when the Syracuse Athletic Club defeated the "New York team" 5–0. Syracuse would go on to win the 1902 Series, while the Franklin Athletic Club won the Series in 1903. The World Series only lasted two seasons. [3] [225]
"Scientific" football is first recorded in 1839 from Lancashire [88] and in the modern game in rugby football from 1862 [89] and from Sheffield FC as early as 1865. [90] [91] The first side to play a passing combination game was the Royal Engineers AFC in 1869/70.
First football game may refer to: The 1860 Rules derby , the oldest football fixture in the world 1869 college football season , the first season of intercollegiate football in the United States
The first American football game was played on November 6, 1869, between two college teams, Rutgers and Princeton, using rules based on the rules of soccer at the time. A set of rule changes drawn up from 1880 onward by Walter Camp , the "Father of American Football", established the snap , the line of scrimmage , eleven-player teams, and the ...
The 1892 Wyoming Seminary vs. Mansfield Normal football game, played September 28, 1892, was the first-ever American football game played at night. [1] [2] The game was played between Wyoming Seminary (a private college preparatory school located in the Wyoming Valley of Northeastern Pennsylvania) and Mansfield Normal School in Mansfield, Pennsylvania.
The first such game of college football in the United States in this format was played between Tufts and Harvard Colleges on June 4, 1875. This was the first football game played under rules that are now called football. Tufts played Harvard on June 4, 1875 at Jarvis Field in Cambridge, Massachusetts as the first game played.
The first organized football game in California involving a college occurred December 2, 1882 when Cal lost a rugby football game to Phoenix Club 7–4 in San Francisco. The first organized American football game in California involving a college occurred January 16, 1886 when Cal defeated a club team called the Wasps 20–2 at West Field in ...